Claude Moine (born 3 July 1942), better known by his stage name Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville) and Mitchell simply because it sounds American. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.
A great lover of American films, he hosted La Dernière Séance, a TV show about American cinema from 1981 to 1998 on FR3 (later France 3). Its format was like an old-fashioned double-feature picture show, with two movies, cartoons, newseels, and stage attractions.
He is the voice of Flappy in the French version of the 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout.
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Albums
with Les 5 Rocks
1960 : Les 5 Rocks (remained unreleased until 1996)
with Les Chaussettes noires
1961 : 100 % rock
1961 : Rock'n'Twist
1962 : Le 2 000 000e disque des Chaussettes noires (1st official studio album)
1962 : Comment réussir en amour (soundtrack of film with same title)
1963 : Chaussettes Noires Party (2nd and last studio album)
Solo studio albums
1963 : Voici Eddy... c'était le soldat Mitchell
1963 : Eddy in London
1964 : Panorama
1964 : Toute la ville en parle... Eddy est formidable