the first time i saw edith piaf, it was amazing, i never saw anything like that.r she was already quite a sick lady and she just made onto centrestage and i thought, this is not going to be very good. this is uncomfortable for me and then she started to sing and then she started to sing and that is when i learnt don't about singing with your heart and soul and everything else. you know, she sang about love, death, hate, met us, —— sex, everything, you know andi —— sex, everything, you know and i have never seen anything like that before. so it was really a learning experience. i learned from her personally and professionally. it made you much more self—aware and ready to express your true self? yes and i was also married and had two children. the great thing for me, there was always that image because i had been a star in england, it was difficult for me to get past that. whereas in france, they knew nothing about that and they just like me asi about that and they just like me as i was. and that was amazing for me. pretty wonderful. imean, in pretty wonderful. i m

and you went to live in france and you have said that going to france, to paris and discovering edith piaf of great artists in paris really change your life. i was wondering in what ways? my life was totally changed by going to france. i did not want to go and live in france, it was an accident but anyway that is another story. i found myself living in paris which at that time was very foreign indeed. i did not speak any french and then i was meeting all these amazing artists. the first time i saw piaf, it was amazing, i had never seen anything like that. when i saw her she was already quite a sick lady and she just about made it centrestage and i thought, this is not going to be very good. this is uncomfortable for me and then she started to sing and that is when i learnt about singing with your heart and soul and everything else. you know, she sang about love, death, hate, madness, sex, everything, you know, and i had never seen anything like that before. so it was really a learning experience for me, living in france — personally and professionally. in a sense it sound sas though it mad