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Friday, 14 January 2011

Daniel Balavoine: 25 ans déjà

Daniel Balavoine sadly left us 25 years ago today.



- for 'SOS d'un terrien en detresse' visit here (this was his only public performance of this song). Here is a video-compilation with slides of Balavoine which uses the same song as the backing track:



Read his Wikipedia biography / Lire sa biographie Wikipedia:
English version / Version française

He died much too young (5 February 1952 – 14 January 1986). In the run-up to the 25th anniversary of his death I wrote a tribute to Daniel Balavoine last October here.

So sad. Rest in Peace.

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