Plastic Bertrand

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Plastic Bertrand is the stage name of the Belgian new wave musician Roger Jouret (born February 24, 1954 in Brussels ).

Life

Jouret, the son of a French father and a Ukrainian mother, started his career as a drummer for the Belgian punk band Hubble Bubble , which released two singles and two albums, Hubble Bubble (1974) and Faking (1978), on Barclay Records . In 1977 he made a guest appearance under the pseudonym "Nobby Goff" as a drummer with the band Elton Motello and played on the single Jet Boy, Jet Girl b / w Pogo Pogo .

When Jouret teamed up with producer and songwriter Lou Deprijck, a successful duo was born. Deprijck wrote a new French text for Jet Boy, Jet Girl and recorded both songs from the Elton Motello single with Jouret, who was now called Plastic Bertrand.

The song Ça Plane Pour Moi from 1977 is considered a new wave classic. Ça Plane Pour Moi became one of the greatest hits of the 1970s in Europe, America and Asia. However, it has been controversial since at least 2006 whether producer Lou Deprijk or Plastic recorded the song. Benny Schnier brought a version in German under the title Bin again freely on the market; Lou Deprijck, who emigrated to Thailand , sang a Thai version called Mai pen lai . With his hit, Plastic Bertrand appeared twice in the music store in 1978 ; at another appearance he sang the follow-up single Bambino .

Plastic Bertrand released other albums in Europe in which he experimented with the most diverse musical styles, such as disco , bubblegum , rap and reggae , mixed with his typical nonsense singing. In 1987 he started for Luxembourg at the Grand Prix Eurovision , but only finished penultimate in his hometown with the title Amour-Amour . In the following years he hardly appeared in public, but in 2002 he reported back with the album Ultraterrestre .

Cover versions

The first cover version of Ça Plane Pour Moi appeared in 1979 on the first album Looking for St. Tropez by the Belgian synth-pop group Telex .

Die Welt reported that the German group Wir sind Helden used the song Ça Plane Pour Moi as a template for their hit Guten Tag . However, the group itself stated that the song just a rock 'n' roll - Reef on the synthesizers have quoted.

A cover version of Ça Plane Pour Moi appeared on the album Rodeo Radio by the Berlin band The BossHoss in mid-2006 ; With this band, Plastic Bertrand recorded the song again in 2007.

The French band Nouvelle Vague also covered the song on their 2009 album 3 .

Already in 1993 Leila K. Ça Plane sang Pour Moi on her album Carousel . The song was also released as a single.

In 2019 The Hawaiians (Band) released Ça Plane Pour Moi with a modified text under the title She Hates Hawaii on Partysprenger Records.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Ça plane pour moi
  DE 6th 05/01/1978 (2 weeks)
  AT 19th 05/15/1978 (16 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/05/1978 (11 weeks)
  UK 8th 05/13/1978 (12 weeks)
  US 47 06/17/1978 (10 weeks)
Sha-La-La-La-Lee
  UK 39 08/05/1978 (5 weeks)

Albums

  • 1978: AN1 (Sire Records)
  • 1979: J'te fais un plan (RKM)
  • 1980: L'album (Attic Records)
  • 1981: Plastiquez vos baffles (Attic Records)
  • 1981: Grands Succès / Greatest Hits (Attic Records)
  • 1983: Chat va? ... et toi? (Attic Records)
  • 1988: Pix (Attic Records)
  • 1994: Suite diagonale (Attic Records)
  • 2002: Ultraterrestre (RM Records)
  • 2008: Live from Cologne (single version with The BossHoss) (Universal Records)
  • 2008: Dandy Bandit (SABAM)

Singles

  • 1975: New Promotion / You'll Be the One
  • 1977: Ça plane pour moi / Pogo Pogo
  • 1978: Bambino / Le petit tortillard
  • 1978: Super Cool / Affection
  • 1978: Sha La La La Lee / Naif Song
  • 1978: Tout petit la planète / C'est le Rock'N'Roll
  • 1979: Tout petit la planète / J'te fais un plan / Hit 87
  • 1979: Sentimentale-moi / Ouais ouais ouais ouais
  • 1979: Le monde est merveilleux / J'te fais un plan
  • 1979: Sans amour / Plastic Boy
  • 1979: Telephone à telephone mon bijou / Stop ou encore
  • 1980: Telephone à telephone mon bijou / Kangourou kangourou
  • 1981: Hula Hoop / Amoureux fou de toi
  • 1981: Jaques Cousteau / Paradis
  • 1981: La Star à pécole / Baby Doll / Cœur d'acier
  • 1982: L'amour ok (Duo Avec Nathalie) / New York
  • 1982: ping pong
  • 1983: Arrêt d'autobus / Mon nez, mon nez
  • 1983: Chat / Fou des fifties
  • 1983: Major Tom / Miss Italie
  • 1983: Gueule d'amour / Down Town
  • 1985: Asterix est là / Le secret du druide (from the film Asterix - Victory over Caesar )
  • 1986: Je l'jure / La fille du premier rang
  • 1986: Let's Slow Again / Toujours plus skin
  • 1987: Amour amour
  • 1988: Demente à la menthe
  • 1989: Slave to the Beat / Plastic Acid Mix
  • 1990: Sex Tabou
  • 1991: House Machine / Club Control (feat.Plastic Bertrand)
  • 1994: Les joueurs de tchik tchik
  • 1997: Stop… ou… encore?
  • 2002: Play Boy / Canape
  • 2003: Plastcubration / Tous, touchez-vous
  • 2008: Ça plane pour moi (The BossHoss feat.Plastic Bertrand)

The singles appeared several times with different record companies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2010/07/27/plastic-bertrand-n-aurait-pas-chante-ca-plane-pour-moi_668697
  2. ↑ Search result  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the list of Musikladen performances@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / user.cs.tu-berlin.de  
  3. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
personal data
SURNAME Plastic Bertrand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jouret, Roger (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian new wave musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels