Editing Jacques Dutronc (section)

===1960s===
[[File:Fanclub1966JacquesDutronc.jpg|thumb|left|Dutronc performing on Dutch TV in 1966|alt=Jacques Dutronc with a guitar on a 1966 television broadcast]]
In 1960, Dutronc formed a band with himself as guitarist, schoolfriend Hadi Kalafate as bassist, Charlot Bénaroch as drummer (later replaced with André Crudot), and Daniel Dray as singer. They auditioned in 1961 for Jacques Wolfsohn, an artistic director at [[Disques Vogue]], who signed them and gave them the name El Toro et les Cyclones.{{sfn|Leydier|2010|p=68}} The group released two singles, "L'Oncle John" and "Le Vagabond", but disbanded when Dutronc was obliged to undertake military service.{{sfn|Leydier|2010|p=76}}

After being discharged from the army in 1963, Dutronc briefly played guitar in [[Eddy Mitchell]]'s backing band and was also given a job at Vogue as Jacques Wolfsohn's assistant.{{sfn|Leydier|2010|pp=81–82}} In this capacity, he co-wrote songs for artists such as [[Zouzou (model)|ZouZou]], Cléo, and [[Françoise Hardy]].

Wolfsohn asked Dutronc to work with [[Jacques Lanzmann]], a novelist and editor of ''[[Lui]]'' magazine, to create songs for a [[beatnik]] singer called Benjamin. Benjamin released an EP in 1966, featuring songs written with Dutronc and a Lanzmann–Dutronc composition, "Cheveux longs" ("Long Hair").<ref>{{cite web|title=Benjamin – Mon Ami D'autrefois|year=1966|url=http://www.discogs.com/Benjamin-Mon-Ami-Dautrefois/release/4454389|publisher=Discogs}}</ref> However, Wolfsohn was disappointed by Benjamin's recording of a song titled "[[Et moi, et moi, et moi]]". A second version was recorded, with Dutronc's former bandmate Hadi Kalafate on vocals. Wolfsohn then asked Dutronc if he would be interested in recording his own version.<ref name=Figaro>{{cite news|last=Neuhoff|first=Eric|title=Et moi, et moi, et moi de Jacques Dutronc: La France en chanson|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2011/07/15/03006-20110715ARTFIG00603--et-moi-et-moi-et-moi-de-jacques-dutronc.php|newspaper=Le Figaro|date=18 July 2011}}</ref> The single reached number 2 in the French charts in September 1966.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hits of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA44|newspaper=Billboard|date=17 September 1966|page=44}}</ref>

Cultural historian [[Larry Portis]] describes the arrival of Dutronc on the French music scene, along with that of [[Michel Polnareff]] at around the same time, as representing "the first French rock music that can be considered a musically competent and non-imitative incorporation of African-American and African-American-British influences". For Portis, Dutronc marks a break with the literary tradition of French ''[[Nouvelle Chanson|chanson]]'' in his creative use of the sounds, rather than just the syntax, of the language.<ref>{{cite book|last=Portis|first=Larry|title=French Frenzies: A Social History of Pop Music in France|year=2004|publisher=Virtualbookworm|location=College Station, TX|page=147}}</ref>

Dutronc's [[Jacques Dutronc (1966 album)|self-titled debut album]], released at the end of 1966, sold over a million copies and was awarded a special [[Grand Prix du Disque for French Song#1967|Grand Prix du Disque]] by the [[Académie Charles Cros]], in memoriam of one of its founders.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jacques Dutronc biography|url=http://rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6268.asp|publisher=RFI Music|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110001442/http://rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6268.asp|archive-date=10 January 2014}}</ref> A second single, "[[Les play boys]]", spent six weeks at number one and sold 600,000 copies.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hits of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39|newspaper=Billboard|date=7 January 1967|page=39}}</ref>

Dutronc was one of the most commercially successful French music stars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. During that period, he released seven hit albums and more than 20 singles, including two further number ones: "[[J'aime les filles]]" in 1967 and "[[Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille]]" in 1968.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hits of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53|newspaper=Billboard|date=27 April 1968|page=53}}</ref>

According to music critic Mark Deming: "Dutronc's early hits were rough but clever exercises in European garage rock ... like Dutronc's role models [[Bob Dylan]] and [[Ray Davies]], he could write melodies strong enough to work even without their excellent lyrics, and his band had more than enough energy to make them fly (and the imagination to move with the musical times as psychedelia and hard rock entered the picture at the end of the decade)".<ref name=et-moi/>