The brother of Claude Lanzmann. In 1966, Jacques Wolfsohn of Disques Vogue asked Lanzmann to work with pop composer Jacques D u t r o n to create songs for a beatnik singer called Benjamin. Benjamin released an EP in 1966, featuring songs written with Dutronc and a Lanzmann-Dutronc composition, "Cheveux longs" (Long Hair). However, Wolfsohn was disappointed by Benjamin's recording of a song titled "Et moi, et moi, et moi". Asecond version was recorded, with Dutronc's former bandmate Had Kalafate on vocals. Wolfsohn then asked Dutronc fi he would be interested in recording his own version. The single reached number 2 in the French charts in September 1966. Lanzmann, sometimes working with his wife Anne Segalen, wrote the words for most of Dutronc's output between 1966 and 1980. Dutronc's self-titled debut album, re- leased at the end of 1966, sold over a million copies and was awarded a special Grand Prix du Disque by the Académie Charles Cros, in memoriam ofone ofits founders. A second single, 'Les play boys", spent six weeks at number one and sold 600 000 copies. Dutronc was one of the most commercially successful French music stars of thelate 1960s and early 1970s. During that period, he released seven hit albums and more than 20 singles, including two further number ones: "Jaime les filles" in 1967 and "Il est cing heures, Paris séveille" in 1968.