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Will Simpson

“I thought: ‘I will be so famous with this crash that it will be great in front of millions and millions of people”: Sebastian Tellier on the time he entered the Eurovision Song Contest – in a golf buggy

Sebastien Tellier attends the Chanel Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025.

Of all the artists to emerge from the French touch scene, Sébastian Tellier was/is the most esoteric. His quarter-century career has seen both high concept albums and out-and-out pop.

He’s never been afraid to dress up and look ridiculous either – his 2004 Politics album sleeve saw him grin inanely with Polish flags painted on his cheeks, whilst on 2012’s My God Is Blue, he depicted himself as a sinister cult leader.

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