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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I didn't know Édith Piaf was referenced in the novels. Andrea Anders can be seen reading Piaf's biography aboard the hydrofoil.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    QBranch wrote: »
    I didn't know Édith Piaf was referenced in the novels. Andrea Anders can be seen reading Piaf's biography aboard the hydrofoil.

    She isn't mentioned by name, but it's a song of hers that Tiffany is playing.

    Didn't know that about Miss Anders, very nice :)
  • Reflsin2bourbonsReflsin2bourbons
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    Edith Piaf's La vie en rose also showed up in Casino Royale; Bond turns it off in DAF due to bad memories of Vesper.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited October 29 Posts: 18,938
    Ian Fleming also chose Édith Piaf's La Vie en Rose as one of his favourite records when he appeared on BBC Radio's Desert Island Discs in June 1963:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y5b3
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited October 29 Posts: 2,995
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Ian Fleming also chose Édith Piaf's La Vie en Rose as one of his favourite records when he appeared on BBC Radio's Desert Island Discs in June 1963:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y5b3

    I would just add that while only nine minutes of the program exists, the full transcript can be read here, and the post also includes YouTube links to Fleming's selections. No one will be surprised to find that Fleming was a fan of the Ink Spots.
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