This baby wont be released in Australia until July 12th, and as I write that is exactly one month ahead, so not even Dave and Marg can help me with this one.This is the life and loves of singer Edith Piaf (born Edith Giovanna Gassion, December 19, 1915 - October 11, 1963). For the benefit of those unfortunates for whom nothing exists before 1985, she was one of France's most loved singers, a national icon, specialising in tragic ballads, two in particular being "La vie en rose" (hence the title) and "Non, je ne regrette rien". Ok, her life in forty-seven words...Born in Belleville; abandoned; raised in a brothel; street singer at 14; single mother at 16 (the baby died); discovered by nightclub owner Louis Lepl((eacute))e (G((eacute))rard Depardieu); nicknamed "La M((ocirc))me Piaf" (the urchin sparrow); fame; fortune; adulation; war; love; loss; car crash; drugs; cancer; dead at 47. That might seem ancient to you, but it's, gosh, only one year older than me. The church denied her a funeral mass - why? See above. She lived and loved far too well and far too unrepentantly for clerical approval, but the French didn't care: her funeral procession drew hundreds of thousands of mourners, forty thousand at the cemetery. Paris traffic was brought to a standstill, and that never happens.Come and see - and hear - why.'