— Of course, I have been fascinated since I saw Armstrong put his foot on the moon in 1969. It was amazing. I was always dreaming about space. When I started composing music and singing, I was approached by an important astrologist who asked me to write the soundtrack to a TV show. I went to the shop, bought my first synthesizer, programmed in a sound, having never done so before, and within 30 minutes my biggest ever hit, Magic Fly, was written. So my producer went to my record company, they listened to it and said, “we don’t want to release this, it’s not good.” But I wanted it to be released so I said, “I will make a band.” And when he asked me what are you going to call it, I said Space. Why Space? Because everyone who’s heard the demo said the sounds are amazing and sound like they’ve come down from space. We will dress as cosmonauts, I can wear a space helmet; so anyone in France who knows me in show business will not recognise me. So after the release in Midem, in Cannes, it sold everywhere in the world. Two months after the release it had become a chart hit, number one, in multiple countries. And of course, the new record company then asked me to write an album with this sound which was released 4 months after and I made a second album in 1977… yes, I work a lot! So 1977 had been a great, great year. I have since continued my work with space and in 1987 I was working with the Russian Space Institute and I composed an album, called Space Opera. I like the name, but what would I do with the album. Well, I decided I would put the two nations who contributed the most toward the discovery of space; the Russians and the Americans. So I took the Red Army Singer for Russia, and for America, the University of Harvard Choir and recorded them in Paris. To ensure I could realise my vision, I wrote a letter and deposited it with the Russian Embassy. I said, I know it’s the cold war, but space is the Russian and the American now and I’d like to put them on the same album. And would you believe, after 5 days they replied and said that my idea, it was wonderful and he wished me all the success. Which was crazy, because it was the cold war, they wouldn’t speak to each other or anything, so to agree to this was incredible. So when I had the album, I went to Moscow with the letter and spoke to the president of the Intercosmos. I said, here is my album and it’s the first Space Opera so I want to send it into space with a CD player. And he said, well we’d need to know the exact weight of the CD player to send it, etcetera. After 2 months we received a letter that asked us to come to Moscow with the CD and the player for an official gifting and sending to the Mir station. So I went there and I gave them the CD, and I told them after that we will make a duplex from the Mir station to France to the biggest TV station! I realise if you have a chance to do something in Russia, all you have to do is ask. In 1991, I approached the Mayor of Moscow and asked him why out of all the countries in the world, Russia doesn’t celebrate World Music Day on the 22nd June. I said, please I want to give a free concert to celebrate this day and he agreed and gave me the chance to perform the first ever music concert in Red Square Moscow, in 1992. There were 350,000 people, it was no longer the ‘Red’ square, it was the ‘Black’ square, filled with people. Everything is possible when you have patience, are passionate about what you do and ask questions.