“He was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star, the most famous of which was ‘Milord’ … Developing a reputation as a singer in his own right in the mid-1960s, the hirsute and heavily bearded Moustaki achieved fame with songs including the immigrant ballad ‘Le Métèque’ and ‘Ma Liberté’, a hymn to the 1960s free-living spirit.”