Claude François : The 'My Way' Man
He sold 70 million records, owned an erotic magazine and slept his way across the continent. But 'CloClo' might have acquired true international success if not for the most shocking of tragedies.
Monday January 16th 1978, and the Royal Albert Hall is packed to the rafters. Some 5,000 people - most of them women - have come to the famous venue to catch one of the hottest artists of the day. But the act on stage isn't the Bee Gees or Barry Manilow. No, it's an Egyptian-born Frenchman whose fame on the continent has propelled him across the Channel.
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