Accused of plagiarism, Gilbert Montagné will no longer receive a cent from his hit “On va s’aimer”

Gilbert Montagné, the watered sprinkler

When embarking on a lawsuit for plagiarism, it is better to be certain that you are beyond reproach. A precaution that Gilbert Montagné seems a little forgotten. In 2009, the singer won his legal battle against the restaurant brand “Flunch”, accusing it of having taken his hit “On va s’aimer” in an advertisement from the 1990s, modifying it to “We will Fluncher.”

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Thanks to the trial, the interpreter of “Sunlights of the Tropics ” pocketed the tidy sum of 30,000 euros in damages. The height of irony, at the same time Gilbert Montagné and his lyricist Didier Barbelivien had to report to Gianni Nazzaro, who in turn accused him of plagiarism , an attack confirmed by the courts in 2012.

For more than ten years the singer refused to pay the rights to his music to Michel Cywie and Jean-Max Rivière, the two artists behind the birth of the song “Une fille de France”. This year, the law caught up with Gilbert Montagné who found himself forced to give up his royalties once and for all.