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Today, in France, the name Eiffel doesn’t exclusively refer to the famous Parisian Tower anymore, but also to the new “towering” French Rock band!

After the rise and fall of bands like Noir Désir, many a critic has solemnly proclaimed thatle rock français est mort et enterré” (“French Rock is dead and burried”)… But it seems that, just like the “mythical” Phoenix, il vient de renaître de ses cendres (it is reborn out of its ashes), thanks to le groupe Eiffel


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Partons en tyrolienne

Let’s cross a Zip-line 

Trémousser en écume  

Jiggling in foam

Maintenant que

Now that

Nos chouettes fêlures crâniennes

Our awesome cranial cracks

Logent un rayon de lune

Host a moon ray

Avec cette épitaphe en vrac

With this higgledy-piggledy epitaph

À graver au large d’Ithaque :

To be engraved off the coasts of Ithaca
[Allusion to the Greek Island, conquered by
Napoleon Bonaparte after being for a time a Venetian property
]

Phénix

Phoenix

Prends-moi sur-le-champ  

Take me right away

Couvre-moi d’étincelles

Cover me with sparks

Et de ta clameur arque le ciel

And through your clamor bend the sky

Prends-moi sur-le-champ

Take me right away

Oiseau rare éternel

Rare eternal bird

Prends-moi sous ton aile

Take me under your wing

Porn sex-bombs ayez pitié

Porn sex-bombs have mercy

Je carillonne la fête

I ring the celebration bells

À vous voir

To see you

Sur le bûcher embrasées

Set ablaze on the stake

Afin de loin en loin renaître

To be reborn afar

Comme vous

Like you 

Je perdrai conscience de mon corps

I’ll lose conscience of my body

Pour m’en aller faire corps avec

To go and be one with 

Le Phénix

The phoenix

Prends-moi sur-le-champ

Take me right away

Couvre-moi d’étincelles 

Cover me with sparks

Et de ta clameur arque le ciel

And through your clamor bend the sky

Fais couler la sève nue

Let flow the pure sap

Des immortels

Of immortals

Prends-moi sous ton aile

Take me under your wing

L’arase des ondes à fleur de connerie

On the verge of stupidity 

Pour les dance-floors de la jeunesse

For the dance-floors of youth

Comme la promesse au pays

Like the promise extended to the country

D’un pitbull au Fouquet’s

Of a Pit Bull at The Fouquet’s

Quand les nations immigrent à la chaîne

When nations immigrate en masse

Cognant aux vitraux d’ADN

Banging against the DNA stained glasses

Un dernier vœu sur le tarmac

A last wish on the tarmac

Cette épitaphe en vrac :

This higgledy-piggledy epitaph:

Prends-moi sur-le-champ

Take me right away

Couvre-moi d’étincelles

Cover me with sparks

Et de ta clameur arque le ciel

And through your clamor bend the sky

Fais couler la sève nue

Let flow the pure sap

Des immortels

Of immortals

Prends-moi sous ton aile  

Take me under your wing 

Sous ton aile

Under your wing

Possibly most famous in the US as Johnny Depp’s long-time love and mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis was born on December 22, 1972 in a town near Paris where she took piano and dance lessons.  Now a successful singer, actress and Chanel model, she became a child star in 1987 at just 14 years of age after the release of her single Joe le taxi, which was #1 on the French charts for 11 weeks and rose to #3 on the UK charts.   In 1990, she won the Victoire de la Musique Female Performer of the Year award with her second album, Variations sur le même t’aime. In 1992, she moved to the US to work with Lenny Kravitz, who wrote and produced her English-language album “Vanessa Paradis”, the most successful single from which was entitled “Be My Baby”.  Bliss was released in 2000 and Divinidylle in 2007, with which she won several music awards and nominations in France.
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She is rumored to currently be working on a Greatest Hits album.
She filmed her first movie as an actress, Noce blanche, in 1989, for which she received the 1990 César Award for Most Promising Actress despite her later claim that the filming process with the Director was not a good experience for her.  In 1994, she worked with Gérard Depardieu in the film Elisa.  Perhaps one of her most famous films in the US is the French movie La fille sur le pont (The Girl on the Bridge), released in 1999 in France and in 2000 abroad, and for which she was nominated for another César Award. Her official website is Vanessa Paradis de A à Z.

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