Released album “S n o b”.
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Boris Vian
Boris Vian was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release owing to their unconventional outlook.
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culture · French writer and musician (1920–1959) · poet · painter · translator · engineer · librettist · playwright · singer-songwriter · screenwriter · jazz musician · literary critic · also Boris Vian, Vernon Sullivan, Baron Visi, Brisavion, Brise, Bison Ravi
Born 10 March 1920 · Died 23 June 1959 · Q7833
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Krzyknijmy wodzom dość, wystarczy zabijaniaOdmawiam wykonania rozkazu, wolę śmierćPotrzebna panu krew, nich swoją krew pan da.Pan lepszą ma niż ja. Nie będę walczył, nie.Żandarmom krzyknę w twarz, gdy w końcu mnie dogoniąDezerter gardzi bronią, zabijcie dranie mnieA panu powiem, gdy otoczą mnie żandarmiPan mi chce mi ich rękami wpakować kulę w łeb.
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2020· 5 entries
Released album “The French Jazz Legend (Remastered)”.
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Released album “Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés”.
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Released album “Ils chantent Boris Vian”.
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Released album “Boris Vian – 100 Ans, 100 Chansons”.
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Boris Vian et son orchestre, Au Cabaret Le Tabou, Jazz au quartier latin”.
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Released album “Chansons réalistes”.
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Released ep “Fais-moi mal Boris !”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Boris Vian et ses interprètes 1950-1959 : Chansons, Rock 'n' Roll et Créations”.
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Released album “Boris Vian & le jazz”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Le Déserteur and Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Boris Vian à toujours...”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Le Déserteur et Chansons sans complexes”.
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Released album “Les Amis de Boris Vian”.
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2009· 5 entries
Released album “À Boris Vian : On n’est pas là pour se faire engueuler !”.
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Released album “Boris Vian : 100 Chansons”.
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Released album “Boris Vian chante Vian”.
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Released album “Docteur Boris & Mister Vian”.
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Released album “L’Ingénieux romanesque”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “En avant la zizique !”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Boris Vian et ses interprètes : Chansons, Jazz & Rock’n’roll”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Jazz & Trompinette”.
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Released album “Le Meilleur de Boris Vian”.
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Released album “Boris Vian”.
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Released album “J'suis snob”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Boris Vian et ses interprètes”.
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Released album “Boris Vian : Je voudrais pas crever (Poètes & Chansons)”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Inédits radiophoniques”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “J'suis snob ! (Un voyage au paradis avec Boris Vian)”.
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Released album “Tu mir weh. Erzählungen und Chansons”.
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Released album “Boris Vian (Poètes & Chansons)”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “L’Album Collection : Boris Vian chanté par…”.
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Released album “Letícia Coura canta Boris Vian”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Jazz”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Jazz à Saint-Germain”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released ep “Hjärtkniparen”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Pur Vian de bœuf : Onze chansons de Boris Vian”.
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Released album “Luís Madureira canta Boris Vian”.
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1991· 6 entries
Released album “Chansons impossibles”.
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Released album “Chansons pas possibles”.
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Released album “Chansons possibles, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Chansons Rock”.
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Released album “Chansons possibles, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Boris Vian chante Boris Vian”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Boris Vian et les zazous”.
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Released album “Jacques Higelin et Catherine Sauvage chantent Boris Vian (Boris Vian #7)”.
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Released album “Regard sur Vian”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Boris Vian par Philippe Clay et par Arlette Téphany (Boris Vian #4)”.
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Released album “Henri Salvador et Les Garçons (Boris Vian #6)”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Boris Vian, 1er volume”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Une heure passée avec Boris Vian : Chansons, textes et poèmes”.
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Released album “Master Série / Le Code de la route”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Boris 'Super' Vian”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “La Fête à Boris (Boris Vian, Enregistrement public)”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Salvador / Boris Vian”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Rock′n roll : Naissance d′un nouveau rythme en France (1956-1957)”.
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Released album “Mouloudji chante Boris Vian”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “La Bande à Bonnot (Douze chansons de Boris Vian)”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Ah ! si j’avais un franc cinquante”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Henri Salvador chante Boris Vian”.
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Released album “Le temps de la rose rouge”.
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Les Charlots chantent Boris Vian”.
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1968· 3 entries
Released ep “Boris Vian instrumentiste”.
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Released album “Le Déserteur”.
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Released album “En avant la zizique”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Salut Boris !”.
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “Pauline Julien chante Boris Vian”.
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1965· 3 entries
Released ep “Jacques Higelin chante Boris Vian”.
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Released album “Serge Reggiani chante Boris Vian”.
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Released album “Marie-José Casanova chante Boris Vian”.
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1964· 3 entries
Released album “Pas avec le dos de la Q.I.R : Chansons et textes de Boris Vian”.
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Released ep “Boris Vian”.
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Released album “Magali Noël chante Boris Vian”.
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1959· 5 entries
Died 1959-06-23.
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“W dzisiejszych czasach, żeby zrobić interesy, trzeba być Amerykaninem. Ale jeśli komuś wystarczy, że jest inteligentny, może być po prostu Francuzem.”
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“Do dziewcząt mówił łagodnie, do chłopców wesoło. Prawie zawsze był w dobrym humorze, a przez resztę czasu spał.”
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“Krzyknijmy wodzom dość, wystarczy zabijaniaOdmawiam wykonania rozkazu, wolę śmierćPotrzebna panu krew, nich swoją krew pan da.Pan lepszą ma niż ja. Nie będę walczył, nie.Żandarmom krzyknę w twarz, gdy w końcu mnie dogoniąDezerter gardzi bronią, zabijcie dranie mnieA panu powiem, gdy otoczą mnie żandarmiPan mi chce mi ich rękami wpakować kulę w łeb.”
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“Śmieszność jeszcze nikogo nie zabiła, a w Ameryce można się na niej wzbogacić.”
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1958· 1 entry
Vian worked on the opera Fiesta with Darius Milhaud
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1957· 1 entry
Vian completed another play: Les Bâtisseurs d'empire (The Empire Builders), which was not published and staged until 1959
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1956· 2 entries
Released album “Chansons "possibles" et "impossibles"”.
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By a pulmonary edema, but he survived and continued working with the same intensity as before
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1955· 4 entries
Released ep “Chansons impossibles”.
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Released ep “Chansons possibles”.
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Vian decided also to perform some of his songs on stage himself
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Released ep “Nouveau code de la route 1955”.
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1954· 1 entry
Embarked on his first tour as singer-songwriter
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1952· 1 entry
Career landmark: divorce.
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1950· 1 entry
Met Ursula Kübler (1928–2010), a Swiss dancer, and the two started an affair
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1949· 1 entry
Falling from a building he was trying to climb after a bet, in order to enter into a flat by the window
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1947· 1 entry
Along with several works which Vian completed in 1946
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1944· 1 entry
Vian completed Vercoquin et le plancton (Vercoquin and the Plankton), a novel inspired partly by surprise-parties of his youth and partly by his job at the AFNOR (which is sharply satirized in the novel)
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1943· 2 entries
With his first publication, a poem, in the Hot Club de France bulletin
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Wrote his first novel, Trouble dans les andains (Turmoil in the Swaths)
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1942· 2 entries
Vian and his brothers joined a jazz orchestra under the direction of Claude Abadie
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Studied at École Centrale Paris (1939–1942).
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1941· 1 entry
Career landmark: wedding.
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1940· 2 entries
Vian met Jacques Loustalot, who became a recurring character in several early novels and short stories as "The Colonel"
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Vian met Michelle Léglise, whom he married in 1941
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1939· 1 entry
Helped organize Duke Ellington's second concert in France
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1937· 1 entry
Vian graduated from Lycée Hoche, passing baccalauréats in mathematics, philosophy, Latin, Greek and German
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1936· 2 entries
That Vian became interested in jazz
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And his two brothers began to organize what they called "surprise-parties" (surprise parties)
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1935· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Hoche (1935).
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1920· 2 entries
Born 1920-03-10.
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Into an upper-middle-class family in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Ville d'Avray
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