Plastic Bertrand
Plastic Bertrand is the stage name of Belgian New Wave musician Roger Jouret ( born February 24, 1954 in Brussels).
Life
Jouret, son of a French father and a Ukrainian mother, began his career as a drummer for the Belgian punk band Hubble Bubble, the two singles and two albums, Hubble Bubble (1974) and Faking (1978), brought out on Barclay Records. In 1977 he toured under the pseudonym Nobby Goff as a drummer in 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 to Jet boy, jet girl and took Jouret, who now called himself Plastic Bertrand, both songs of Elton Motello single scratch.
The song Ça Plane Pour Moi from 1977 is considered New Wave classic. Ça Plane Pour Moi was one of the biggest hits of the 70s in Europe, America and Asia. However, this title is not of Jouret, but by Deprijck was sung as Jouret had to admit in 2010. He later recanted this confession again. A version in German language brought Benny Schnier entitled Bin released to the market; the emigrated to Thailand Lou Deprijck sang a Thai version entitled Mai pen lai. With his hit 1978 Plastic Bertrand met twice at the music store; in another appearance he sang the second single Bambino.
Plastic Bertrand published nor more albums in Europe, where he experimented with a variety of musical styles such as disco, bubblegum rap and reggae, mixed with his typical nonsense vocals. In 1987 he started for Luxembourg at the Euro Vision Song Contest, finished second in his home town entitled Amour- Amour but only the penultimate place. The following year he entered public hardly in appearance, but in 2002 he also returned with the album Ultraterrestre.
The first cover version of Ça Plane Pour Moi was released in 1979 on the first album Looking for St. Tropez Belgian synthpop group Telex.
Die Welt reported that the group We are heroes would have used the song Ça Plane Pour Moi as a template for their hit good day. The group itself was, however, that the song had only cited a rock'n'roll riff on the synthesizer.
On the album Rodeo Radio Berlin band The BossHoss appeared in mid-2006 a cover version of Ça Plane Pour Moi, with the band Plastic Bertrand took the song together in 2007 again.
The French band Nouvelle Vague coverte the song on their 2009 released album 3
As early as 1993 coverte Leila K. Ça Plane Pour Moi on their album Carousel. In addition, the song was released as a single.
Discography
Albums
Singles
The singles appeared several times at various record companies.