Eddy Mitchell

Claude Moine (; born 3 July 1942), known professionally as Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks). He took the name Eddy from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville), and chose Mitchell as his last name simply because it sounds American. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.

Heavily influenced by American rock and roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young, David Briggs, Charlie McCoy, Leland Sklar, Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and others.

He received a César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for his role in the French comedy Le bonheur est dans le pré (1996) directed by Étienne Chatiliez.

A great lover of American films, Mitchell hosted La Dernière Séance, a TV show about American cinema from 1981 to 1998 on FR3 (later France 3). Its format was like an old-fashioned double-feature picture show, with two movies, cartoons, newsreels, and stage attractions. The title was taken from the name of one of Mitchell's albums, which in turn took it from the French title of the movie The Last Picture Show.

He is also the voice of Dylan (Flappy) in the French version of the 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout, as well as the voice of Chanticleer in the French version of Rock-a-Doodle.

Discography

Albums with Les 5 Rocks 1960 – Les 5 Rocks (remained unreleased until 1996) with Les Chaussettes noires 1961 : 100% rock 1961 : Rock'n'Twist 1962 : Le 2 000 000e disque des Chaussettes noires (1st official studio album) 1962 : Comment réussir en amour (soundtrack of film with same title) 1963 : Chaussettes Noires Party (2nd and last studio album) Solo studio albums 1963 : Voici Eddy... c'était le soldat Mitchell 1963 : Eddy in London 1964 : Panorama 1964 : Toute la ville en parle... Eddy est formidable 1965 : Du rock 'n' roll au rhythm 'n' blues 1966 : Perspective 66 1966 : Seul 1967 : De Londres à Memphis 1968 : Sept Colts pour Schmoll 1969 : Mitchellville 1971 : Rock n'Roll 1972 : Zig-zag 1972 : Dieu bénisse le rock'n'roll 1974 : Ketchup électrique 1974 : Rocking in Nashville 1975 : Made in USA 1976 : Sur la route de Memphis 1977 : La Dernière Séance 1978 : Après minuit 1979 : C'est bien fait 1980 : Happy Birthday 1982 : Le Cimetière des éléphants 1984 : Fan Album 1984 : Racines 1986 : Eddy Paris Mitchell 1987 : Mitchell 1989 : Ici Londres 1993 : Rio Grande 1996 : Mr. Eddy 1999 : Les Nouvelles Aventures d'Eddy Mitchell 2003 : Frenchy 2006 : Jambalaya 2009 : Grand écran 2010 : Come Back 2013 : Héros 2015 : Big Band 2017 : La Même Tribu (Volume 1) 2018 : La Même Tribu (Volume 2) 2021 : Country Rock 2024 : Amigos Live albums 1969 : Olympia 69 1975 : Rocking in Olympia 1975 1978 : Palais des Sports 77 1981 : 20 ans : Eddy Mitchell Olympia 1984 : Palais des Sports 84 1991 : Casino de Paris 90 1994 : Retrouvons notre héros Eddy Mitchell à Bercy 1995 : Big Band au Casino de Paris 1995 : Country-Rock à l'Olympia 1995 : Show 94 au Zénith 1997 : Mr. Eddy à Bercy 97 2001 : Live 2000 2004 : Frenchy Tour 2007 : Jambalaya Tour 2011 : Ma Dernière Séance

Eddy Mitchell (Sessions outside France) Eddy Mitchell recorded many albums mainly in the UK and in the United States, in the following locations: London (England): 1967 – De Londres à Memphis 1993 – Rio Grande (in London and in Muscle Shoals (Alabama)) Nashville (Tennessee): 1974 – Rocking in Nashville 1975 – Made in USA 1976 – Sur la route de Memphis 1977 – La Dernière Séance 1978 – Après minuit 1979 – C'est bien fait (also in Muscle Shoals Alabama) 1980 – Happy Birthday (also in Muscle Shoals Alabama) 1981 – Le cimetière des éléphants (also in Los Angeles and New York City) 1984 – Fan Album (également à Paris) 1984 – Racines 1987 – Mitchell Memphis and Nashville (Tennessee): 1996 – Mr. Eddy Memphis, Tennessee, Los Angeles, California and New Orleans, Louisiana: 1999 – Les nouvelles aventures d'Eddy Mitchell Los Angeles (California) : 2003 – Frenchy Burbank (California): 2007 – Jambalaya 2009 – Grand Écran 2010 – Comeback (also in Paris, France)

Filmography Les Parisiennes, in the segment Ella (Jacques Poitrenaud,1962) Comment réussir en amour (Michel Boisrond, 1963) Nanou, TV series (Georges Régnier, 1970) Ça va plaire, TV musical (Jean-Pierre Cassel et Bernard Lion, 1980) Gaston Lapouge, TV film (Frank Apprederis, 1981) Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier, 1981) My Other Husband (Georges Lautner, 1983) (Jean-Claude Missiaen, 1984) À mort l'arbitre (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1983) Frankenstein 90 (Alain Jessua, 1984) La Galette du roi (Jean-Michel Ribes, 1986) I Love You (Marco Ferreri, 1986) Autour de minuit (Round Midnight) (cameo) (Bertrand Tavernier, 1986) Un père et passe (Sébastien Grall, 1989) Promotion canapé (Didier Kaminka, 1990) Until the end of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) (Wim Wenders, 1991) La Totale! (Claude Zidi, 1991) Ville à vendre (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1992) La Cité de la peur (Alain Berbérian, 1994) Le bonheur est dans le pré (Étienne Chatiliez, 1995) Cuisine américaine (Jean-Yves Pitoun, 1998) Kitchendales (Chantal Lauby, 2000) Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés (Stéphane Clavier, 2003) Les Clefs de bagnole (Laurent Baffie, 2003) Frank Passingham, (2005) Un printemps à Paris (Springtime in Paris) (Jacques Bral, 2006) Populaire (Régis Roinsard, 2012) The Dream Kids (Vianney Lebasque, 2013) Salaud, on t'aime (Claude Lelouch, 2014)