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Eddy Mitchell
Eddy Mitchell in 2014.
Eddy Mitchell in 2014.
Background information
Birth nameClaude Moine
Also known asSchmoll
Born (1942-07-03) 3 July 1942 (age 82)
Paris, France
GenresRock'n'roll, R&B, Country, Ballads, French songs
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
Actor
LabelsBarclay, Polydor

Claude Moine (born 3 July 1942), better known by his stage name Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville). The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.

Heavily influenced by American rock & roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young, David Briggs, Charlie McCoy and others.[1]

A great lover of American films, he hosted "La Dernière Séance", a TV show about American cinema from 1981 to 1998 on FR3 (later France 3). Its format was like an old-fashioned double-feature picture show, with two movies, cartoons, newseels and stage attractions.

He is the voice of Flappy in the French version of the 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout.

Discography

Albums

with Les 5 Rocks
  • 1960 : Les 5 Rocks (remained unreleased until 1996)
with Les Chaussettes noires
  • 1961 : 100 % rock
  • 1961 : Rock'n'Twist
  • 1962 : Le 2 000 000e disque des Chaussettes noires (1st official studio album)
  • 1962 : Comment réussir en amour (soundtrack of film with same title)
  • 1963 : Chaussettes Noires Party (2nd and last studio album)
Solo studio albums
  • 1963 : Voici Eddy... c'était le soldat Mitchell
  • 1963 : Eddy in London
  • 1964 : Panorama
  • 1964 : Toute la ville en parle... Eddy est formidable
  • 1965 : Du rock 'n' roll au rhythm 'n' blues
  • 1966 : Perspective 66
  • 1966 : Seul
  • 1967 : De Londres à Memphis
  • 1968 : Sept Colts pour Schmoll
  • 1969 : Mitchellville
  • 1971 : Rock n'Roll
  • 1972 : Zig-zag
  • 1972 : Dieu bénisse le rock'n'roll
  • 1974 : Ketchup électrique
  • 1974 : Rocking in Nashville
  • 1975 : Made in USA
  • 1976 : Sur la route de Memphis
  • 1977 : La Dernière Séance
  • 1978 : Après minuit
  • 1979 : C'est bien fait
  • 1980 : Happy Birthday
  • 1982 : Le Cimetière des éléphants
  • 1984 : Fan Album
  • 1984 : Racines
  • 1986 : Eddy Paris Mitchell
  • 1987 : Mitchell
  • 1989 : Ici Londres
  • 1993 : Rio Grande
  • 1996 : Mr. Eddy
  • 1999 : Les Nouvelles Aventures d'Eddy Mitchell
  • 2003 : Frenchy
  • 2006 : Jambalaya
  • 2009 : Grand écran
  • 2010 : Come Back
  • 2013 : Héros
  • 2015 : Big Band
Live albums
  • 1969 : Olympia 69
  • 1975 : Rocking in Olympia 1975
  • 1978 : Palais des Sports 77
  • 1981 : 20 ans : Eddy Mitchell Olympia
  • 1984 : Palais des Sports 84
  • 1991 : Casino de Paris 90
  • 1994 : Retrouvons notre héros Eddy Mitchell à Bercy
  • 1995 : Big Band au Casino de Paris
  • 1995 : Country-Rock à l'Olympia
  • 1995 : Show 94 au Zénith
  • 1997 : Mr. Eddy à Bercy 97
  • 2001 : Live 2000
  • 2004 : Frenchy Tour
  • 2007 : Jambalaya Tour
  • 2011 : Ma Dernière Séance
Eddy Mitchell (Sessions outside France)

Eddy Mitchell recorded many albums mainly in the United States, in the following locations:

Filmography

Bibliography

by Eddy Mitchell

  • Galas, galères, autobiography (Éditions Jacques Grancher, 1979)
  • Cocktail Story, recipes and anecdotes (R.M.C. Éditions, 1986)
  • P'tit Claude, novel (L'Arbre à cames, 1994)

References

  1. ^ Happy Birthday, Eddy Mitchell, EM Productions, 1980, liner notes