No doubt the mysterious Frenchman’s greatest gift to the world musically has been “Ballad for Adeline.”
Composed by Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint in 1976, the co-writers could never have imagined how big the song would become, because disco was all the rage, and they did not believe that a low-key soft ballad would hack it in the crazy and fickle world of popular music. Read more