“This record is full of optimism. Listen well and sing along with everyone around you. All the best” reads the handwritten note over singer Gérard Lenorman’s face. This single ‘Ca va’ was released in 1979, but the lyrics predict a life in the future: ‘In 2000 you will be 30, for you it will be a good time…it’s okay! It’s okay! Everything is going very well, you see…The little birds are singing…sing!’ Although you can’t hear the record here, reading these lyrics and knowing that Lenorman represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988 perhaps you can get a feel for the energy and ‘optimism’ the note-writer is talking about.