Les Fleurs du mal (Léo Ferré album)
| Les Fleurs du mal | ||||
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| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | March 21, 22, 27, 1957 Pathé Magellan Studio, Paris (France) | |||
| Genre | Chanson | |||
| Length | 35:53 | |||
| Label | Odeon Records (1957) La Mémoire et la Mer (2008) | |||
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Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is an album by Léo Ferré, released in 1957 by Odeon Records. It is his first LP dedicated to a poet and this is the first time in popular music history a whole album is dedicated to a dead poet. Léo Ferré has set Baudelaire into music two more times : in 1967 with double album Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire, and with unfinished project Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin), recorded in 1977 but posthumously released in 2008.