Thursday music corner: Plastic Bertrand (b. Roger François Jouret, 1954) is a Belgian musician and TV presenter who was catapulted to fame thanks to his 1977 (mostly) French-language single Ça Plane Pour Moi, which exhibits boisterous and perhaps semi-satirical punk-pop energy. The single topped the pop charts in France and Switzerland, hit the top five in Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Quebec and the Walloon region of Belgium, and reached the top 10 in the UK, Germany and New Zealand. The 1978 album that included the single, An 1, reached number 2 in the French album charts, and number 7 in Quebec. The song's title is an expression that translates as 'Everything's gliding for me'. Most of its lyrics, both French and English, are pure nonsense.
The musical backing track that was used to record Ça Plane Pour Moi was also used in a contemporary single recorded by English punk / new wave band Elton Motello under the title Jet Boy, Jet Girl. While this was released before Ça Plane Pour Moi and managed to reach the top 40 in Australia, it is now mainly remembered for the cover recording of it by Captain Sensible & the Softies, a side project during a hiatus for the Damned. The recording featured on a 1981 Damned best-of album.
In 2010 Bertrand admitted that he didn't perform any of the vocals on his first four albums, from An 1 to 1981's Plastiquez vos baffles. The songwriter and producer of Ça Plane Pour Moi, Lou Deprijck, was the actual vocalist.
Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi (1977)
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