Re: 29-May-12 World View -- World outrage focuses on Syria
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:35 pm
Well, about "Waterloo" don't forget John chose for us the best Eurovision Song ever.
It's interesting to see how tastes changed in the 60 last years from old-fashioned crooners to last years musical defeats (and how few winners are remembered : I suppose the average Frenchman (woman?) just remember "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" by France Gall, "Waterloo", the odd 2006 winner).
Here two videos :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... LQR5Jh70rw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vS9Te7L ... ure=relmfu
I presume John would be able to do one of his clever generational analysis.
It's interesting to see how tastes changed in the 60 last years from old-fashioned crooners to last years musical defeats (and how few winners are remembered : I suppose the average Frenchman (woman?) just remember "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" by France Gall, "Waterloo", the odd 2006 winner).
Here two videos :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... LQR5Jh70rw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vS9Te7L ... ure=relmfu
I presume John would be able to do one of his clever generational analysis.