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Celebrated French musician Michel Legrand, whose approximately 150 film scores include those of 1964 classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort and The Thomas Crown Affair, and who was also a singer, conductor and jazz  player and composer working with a multitude of musical styles, has died at his Paris home at the age of 86.

Move came after singer Jesse Hughes suggested some concert hall security guards may have known in advance about November Paris attacks.

As well as a world-famous composer, Boulez was a prolific writer and pianist and renowned head of the Paris Philharmonic.

French president François Hollande led tributes to 69-year-old music star whose songs reflected the mood of the 1960s and 1970s in France.

Government plans law to stop radio stations circumventing rules that state that 40 percent of songs played must be in French.

Béart, 85, whose career spans six decades, died of a heart attack as he walked to his hairdresser just nine months after a farewell concert.

The song, which says young people can only succeed if they 'do something', has sparked a bitter generational row in France.

The music from Reunion considered a threat to the French state in the 1970s is now being used to express the anger of a new generation.

Moustaki wrote 300 songs including worldwide hits such as Edith Piaf's ‘Milord’ and was one of the most popular French singers of his generation.

The 49-year-old man had earlier asked his downstairs neighbours in the town of Sete to turn down the music at the party they were hosting.