Certified gold in more than 25 countries, the title still brings him today, 44 years following its release, a nice jackpot. Author, composer, performer and producer of the song, he explained it in Do not touch My TV. “Before taxes, before a number of things, I don’t have 1500 bullets left in my pocket every night”, he said, while specifying that it brings in a lot of money all the same. And to think that the song originally did not interest record companies, forcing Patrick Hernandez to release it in Italy and Belgium to make it known…
