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Distinguish|Eddie MitchellFrench singer and actor September 2020 BLP sources June 2010 Infobox musical artist | name = Eddy Mitchell | image = Eddy Mitchell avp 2014 2.jpg | caption = Eddy Mitchell in 2014 | image_size = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Claude Moine | birth_date = Birth date and age|1942|7/3/ | birth_place = Paris, France | genre = Rock, R&B, Country music|country | occupation = Singer-songwriter, actor | years_active = | label = Barclay Records|Barclay, Polydor Records|Polydor | associated_acts = | website = ''Claude Moine'' (IPA|fr|klod mwan; born 3 July 1942, known professionally as ''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). He took the name ''Eddy'' from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's ''Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution|Alphaville'', and chose ''Mitchell'' as his last name simply because it sounds American. 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 and roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham (musician)|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 (drummer)|Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson (session guitarist)|Jimmy Johnson, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young, David Briggs (American musician)|David Briggs, Charlie McCoy, Leland Sklar, Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and others.''Happy Birthday, Eddy Mitchell'', EM Productions, 1980, liner notes 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, newsreels, and stage attractions. The title was taken from the name of one of Mitchell's albums, which in turn took it from the French title of the movie ''The Last Picture Show''. He is also the voice of Dylan (Flappy) in the French version of the 2005 film of ''The Magic Roundabout (film)|The Magic Roundabout'', as well as the voice of Chanticleer in the French version of ''Rock-a-Doodle''.
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BONUSLive Lille 2000Live Olympia 2004Live Palais Des Sports 2016Live Olympia 2011Histoires De Chanssons