Jacky Chalard

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The name Gilbert Deflez is "ungoogleable". Even with the help of Google's own translation facility and armed with as many French rock encyclopedias as you can carry you'll be hard pushed to find any cross references to Gilbert Deflez and French psychedelic pop music. After a few blind alley detours via online judo forums and French bookshops you are left surrounded by a cast of an ex-radio presenters, a Karate teacher, a science fiction author, a painter and a literary ecologist... Not a guitarist or funky drummer in sight. Of course most online record collectors would at this stage abort mission without knowing that if you combine all the above personalities you have in fact found the right guy. For the lucky contestant fortunate enough to be stood in a record shop holding an original copy of 'Je suis vivant, mais j'ai peur' you might eventually find some answers in the small print. Hidden below an assemblage of school yearbook style portrait shots of ex-radio DJs and unknown actors and storytellers (that would suggest to many that you have found a spoken word LP) you'll eventually find shots of four guys in headphones that look like musicians. If you share your record reading skills with a deep knowledge of Parisian prog pop and French rock then the 6pt text names J. Chalard, J. Mercier, P. Lhomet and M. Engel might ring some bells. With absolutely no indication on the records glossy gatefold exterior you are actually holding a rare chunk of French pop history - you've jus

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Je Sus Vivant, Mais J'ai Peur De Gilbert Deflez

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Make Do & Mend - Volume One

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Je suis vivant, mais j'ai peur de Gilbert Deflez

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Make Do & Mend - Volume Three

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Make Do And Mend / 01. Jarvis Cocker

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Superman Supercool (1978) Vinyl

Je Suis Vivant, Mais J'ai Peur

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