Belgian one hit wonder Plastic Bertrand confesses that he never sang on his one hit.
In mystifying news, an expert linguist has spent three years analysing the 1977 hit ‘Ca Plane Pour Moi’ in order to decipher whether it was actually sung by Plastic Bertrand.
The question stemmed from an ongoing lawsuit from label AMC, who sued Lou Deprijck, the original producer of the song, over a 2006 cover version.
Deprijck then claimed that it was his voice on the original version and it all boiled down to an expert on accents.
The expert said in court, “The way the phrases end on each record show that the song could only have been sung by a Ch'ti - otherwise known as someone from the Picard region of France.”
Deprijck hails from a French-speaking region of Belgium that is renowned for the Picard accent. Plastic Bertrand was born in Brussels, where people do not have this accent.
Plastic Bertrand (né Roger Jouret) has since been forced to admit that he did not sing on the song.
But he also claims that Deprijck was the one who continued the deception, promising to release a version with Jouret singing that never happened.
C’est la vie, Jouret.
