Born on September 9, 1929, Claude Nougaro would have celebrated his 95th birthday in 2024. After an evening spent in a casino near Vendranges, the singer almost lost his life following a car accident late at night.
Died on March 4, 2004, Claude Nougaro lived a tragic accident when he was only 33 years old. After an evening at the Casino on June 2, 1963, he left the premises late at night and the vehicle he was in suffered a skid that could have been fatal for its occupants. Sitting on the passenger side, he was accompanied by two of his musicians when the accident occurred on the RN82 at the entrance to the village of Vendranges, in the Roannais.
“They had left the Casino around 1:30 a.m. The management of the establishment had offered them to sleep in Saint-Galmier but Claude Nougaro and his comrades had preferred to return to Paris during the night,” the newspaper indicates Progress of Monday, June 10, 1963, adding thatThey had made the outward journey on Saturday afternoon.
The car “hits the gate of Joseph Pralus’ farm head on” according to our colleagues atHere Paris and Claude Nougaro has many injuries. Victim of “injuries to the tongue (on which he will have several stitches), femur broken in several places“, the singer will spend three weeks in hospital but this accident will not affect his creativity in any way since he will write his title there Pauvre Nougaro.
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