“Fallen for France” by Etienne Daho

The secrets of the tubes – 2/12. For example, Every summer weekend. Furthermore, Philippe Dufreigne makes you discover all the little secrets of design of the striking songs of our musical heritage. For example, Today, we leave in 1986. Moreover, When Etienne Daho released his first big success, “fell for France”.

A song is sometimes several stages. Nevertheless, For Fall for France From Etienne Daho. Consequently, the artist first had a first melody in mind which is not the one we know today.

“It was a song that I made with Arnold Turboust who had offered me a series of chords with a. In addition, melody that I did not like too much. In addition, I turned in my head. I arrived with this melody which became ‘fell for France’,” says Etienne Daho at the microphone of BFMTV.

“And this song has become ‘Adelaïde’ too. “fallen france” etienne daho With the same sequence of agreements, he made a song for him and I made a song for me. And which were two tubes,” adds the artist.

“I signed autographs every three seconds” – "fallen france" etienne daho

Crazy success. Fallen for France is the first title of Etienne Daho to find himself in the rankings of the Top 50. A reputation that will allow the young Rennes artist to quickly change dimension.

“I remember. I left with a few friends, including Arnold to Ibiza, and my manager had left me a message at the hotel. We sell, I don’t know, 40,000 singles per day. Obviously, I was not coming back. Between the moment when we left in 15 days … I signed autographs every three seconds, from the airport,” recalls the singer.

And if the craze around this song was due to the choices of the instruments … because to make this song. Etienne Daho opted “fallen france” etienne daho for a good old harmonica and a Fairlight, a state -of -the -art synthesizer, star of this 80s.

“In Brussels, Dan Laxman had a studio in which he had one of the first Fairight. It was really an extraordinary toy for us. It was really a time when there were toys that happened all the time. (…) This is one of the first times we used that,” said Étienne Daho.

Forty years later, Fallen for France is always a success in the discography of Etienne Daho. In concert, it remains one of the titles most popular with the public. “People. all of a sudden, when they hear the intro of this song, all of a sudden, they are hot boiling,” he concludes.