Michel Legrand

A towering figure in film and music, Michel Legrand created some of the most creative and innovative film scores of the second half of the 20th century. A prolific and highly versatile composer, Legrand worked with virtually every legendary figure in popular music and film from Maurice Chevalier to Barbra Streisand and from Orson Welles to Jean-Luc Godard. Just prior to his death at the age of 87, Legrand sat down with his longtime collaborator Stéphane Lerouge to recount many of the significant and memorable episodes from his life. Translated by Sam Taylor, this book shares Legrand's stories as told to Lerouge to English readers for the first time.