Hello there. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. And I've got to be honest with you,

if you've just joined for the first time, you have joined for a pretty unusual episode because it's me

interviewing Edith Piaf. That's right, the world famous singer from France, Edith Piaf. How did that

happen? You're probably wondering, well, let me tell you.

Let me rewind a little.

During the lockdown, things we all sort of went a bit stir crazy in Paris.

I ended up having very vivid dreams.

And I think if you've been listening for a while, you might remember I had a dream where I met Ernest Hemingway,

which resulted in a podcast episode and a YouTube video, actually.

Well, he came back the other night in a dream and he said, you want to talk to Edith P.F?

I said, sure I do. He said, well, call this number. She's waiting for you.

That's exactly what I did. woke up in the morning, dialed the number, and that's how the interview was prompted.

Now, I need to just set out a few things so you know what's going on.

Whenever you deal with time portals, it's a dangerous situation.

You don't want to change the course of history.

So very subtly and cleverly, I deduced what year we were in a little bit into the interview.

But I can tell you now it's

1960 so for context Edith P.F. died at a fairly young age in her mid to late 40s in

1963 so she'd already pretty much done everything the only thing she hadn't done is

got married to her next partner which she's going to talk about but 19 1962, she'd just come out with one of her mega hits, which was non, jean regrettrien.

And she performed it at the Olympia, which you're going to hear about as well.

The other thing is because she was kind of tragically about to die, I didn't want to get into that morbid stuff.

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