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Frankie Jordan

One of the pioneers of French rock, Claude Benzaquen aka Frankie Jordan was born in Oran, Algeria, on July 19, 1938. He was still a student at dental school when he began playing the piano at dances and parties, before achieving success in 1960 with "Tu parles trop", an adaptation of the American rock'n'roll hit "You Talk Too Much", created that same year by Joe Jones. After a performance at the first French rock'n'roll festival at the Palais des Sports in Paris on February 24, 1961, he returned to the charts with a duet with Sylvie Vartan, "Panne d'essence", from "Out of Gas", w...