A song is sometimes several stages. For Fall by France From Etienne Daho, the artist first had a first melody that is not the one we know today.
“It was a song that I did with Arnold Turboust that I had offered me a series of chords with a melody that I did not like too much. I turned to my head and arrived with this melody that became ‘fell by France’,” says Etienne Daho in the BFMTV microphone.
“And this song has also become ‘Adelaïde’. With the same sequence of agreements, he made a song for him and I made a song for me. And they were two tubes,” adds the artist.
“I signed autographs every three seconds”
Crazy success, Fall by France It is the first title of Etienne Daho to meet in the ranking of the 50 best. A reputation that will allow the young Rennes artist to quickly change the dimension.
“I remember that I left with some friends, including Arnold to Ibiza, and my manager had left me a message at the hotel. We sell, I don’t know, 40,000 singles per day. Obviously, I didn’t return. Among the moment we went in 15 days … I signed autographs every three seconds, from the airport,” he recalls the singer.
And if the madness around this song was due to the elections of the instruments … because to make this song, Etienne Daho opted for an ancient harmonica and a faireckt, a state synthesizer of the 80s.
“In Brussels, Dan Laxman had a study in which he had one of the first Fairight. It was really an extraordinary toy for us. It was really a time when there were toys that happened all the time. (…) This is one of the first times we used that,” said Ethienne Daho.
Forty years later, Fall by France It is always a success in the discography of Etienne Daho. In concert, it is still one of the most popular titles among the public. “The people, suddenly, when they listen to the introduction of this song, suddenly, they are hot,” he concludes.
Source: BFM TV
