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At the beginning of the Eighties, recovering from cancer of the throat, which had been diagnosed in 1979, he sold 80 % of his label to Polygram, and retired to Saint-Tropez, where he had spent 25 years building a house since Brigitte Bardot persuaded him to buy land there in the late 1950s.

His trademark was a white suit, and his Saint-Tropez parties at which all the guests wore white became huge events for the French media.

He emerged briefly from retirement with a new record label but it was not the success he wished.