Polnareff's is an album by Michel Polnareff

Michel Polnareff

Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...

 released in 1971 on AZ Disques. At the time of its release, Polnareff was "one of the most successful musicians in France", according to The Independent

The Independent

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. The album reflected some very personal and serious issues for Polnareff, including the suicide of Europe 1

Europe 1

Europe 1, formerly known as Europe n° 1, is a privately owned radio network created in 1955. It is one of the leading French radio broadcasters and heard throughout France...

 radio director Lucien Morisse, a close friend, to whom the song "Qui a tué grand'maman?" was dedicated. In 1997, the album was first reissued on compact disc

Compact Disc

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 by Universal Records

Universal Records

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, along with his albums Le Bal des Lazes and Love Me, Please Love Me.

Tracklist

1. "Voyages" (M. Polnareff) - 2:52
2. "Né dans un ice-cream" (J.-L. Dabadie/M. Polnareff) - 3:22
3. "Petite, petite" (J.-L. Dabadie/M. Polnareff) - 3:20
4. "Computer's Dream" (M. Polnareff) - 4:16
5. "Le désert n'est plus en Afrique" (M. Polnareff/M. Polnareff) - 3:04
6. "Nos mots d'amour" (J.-L. Dabadie/M. Polnareff) - 3:13
7. "...Mais encore" (M. Polnareff) - 2:15
8. "Qui a tué grand'maman ?" (M. Polnareff/M. Polnareff) - 2:37
9. "Monsieur l'Abbé" (M. Polnareff/M. Polnareff) - 3:30
10. "Hey You Woman" (P. Delanoe/M. Polnareff) - 5:21
11. "À minuit, à midi" (J.-L. Dabadie/M. Polnareff) - 3:36

Reception

In its review, Allmusic describes the album as a "psychedelic pop masterpiece", "so bloody well-executed and produced, it cannot be anything but brilliant....pretentious French psychedelic soul at its most garish and essential."

Technical

• Jean-Loup Dabadie — text
• Pierre Delanoé — text
• Peter Gallen — assistant
• Paul Holland — sound recording
• Anthony King — arranger
  Arrangement
  The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
  
  , orchestra director
• Barry Kingston — collaboration
• Jean- Marie Perier — photography
• François Plassat — illustrations
• Michel Polnareff — vocals, piano, mellotron, organ, electric piano, guitars, percussions, xylophone, bass, arranger, orchestra director
• Bill Shepherd — arranger, orchestra director

Releases

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	1971	AZ Disques	stereo LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	STEC 81
	1997	Universal Records Universal Records Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group, and it is now owned by Manny Patino and Michael Jackson, and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
	2003	Universal	CD	9809172
	2003	Semi-Meridian	CD	7841552
	2006	Umvd Import	CD	784155