Monday, January 4, 2016

Michel Delpech: when he was a singer – Les Echos

In 1973, the title “The Divorced” was more than just a song. In a society still cautious about this and possible censorship of the time media, the public immediately plebiscita this song. Half a million copies sold in a few weeks, soon two million …

More than a few phrases thrown on a white sheet, a phenomenon of society that for many was the origin of the reform desired by Valery Giscard d’Estaing two years later. Singer never dared broach the subject with as much elegance and lucidity touching. Delpechosait modernity. Madame left the apartment, misunderstanding with respect to the lawyer who claims to be told of the horrors and especially on his ex, alternating custody

Success esteem

Michel Delpech was at the height of his art, after a difficult start, his first album released in 1963 on Vogue “Anatole” even pass completely unnoticed, it connects the critical success. The first “Chez Laurette ‘ is tender nostalgia is, the second” Inventory 66 “was how Prévert list protesters facts of his time. The singer knows the first honors of the profession, TVs, interviews and public notices that the first part of the farewell tour of Jacques Brel. It has not yet tube and will have to wait until 1969, with the slow “Wight Is Wight” that evokes the great festive gatherings.

It will be a real success, one of the first songs in which he manages to project and build an ideal son image. Yet he readily said: “I did not go to the Isle of Wight festival, it is a very fantasized vision because the reality was quite different. But this record allowed me to become a star in its own right. “

People Success

Michel Delpech soon becomes a popular singer at that one finds in the glossy pages of magazines of the time, between Claude François and Mike Brant, but with that little something extra, a friendly franchouillard key. “Flirting” , its second big hit, went on to sell over a million copies, and enable it to move to the Champs-Elysées, in an apartment in the colors bright and psychedelic as evidenced by the numerous photo essays of the time.

His successful singer of life is carefree, filled with rooms and wide smiles. There are yet no injury in the universe of Michel Delpech. Every success replacing the previous one in the heart of fans: “Let Marianne was pretty” , “The Divorced” , “The Hunter” , “The Singer” , “The Loir et Cher”

These are the years of splendor, who don ‘ not hesitate to declare: “I wanted to smash everything, I needed to talk to me! I wanted my picture in Hi Les Copains “ can be proud, he succeeded. But behind this apparent façade is a deep unease. In the mid-1970s, when he was at the zenith of his career he returned to depression.

Just after the birth of her second child with his first wife Chantal. This break is noted for a total change of look, finished sideburns and mop the bedecked costumes and cake server collar shirts. Michel now sports an elegant mustache and a less extravagant appearance.

Just when half its leaves after having deceived public, the stage will be for him so violently that he needs to confide in his memoirs (The Man Who Had Built His House On The Sand, Robert Laffont, 1993). “It’s all in Agadir starts … One night at dinner, my wife has a terrifying behavior. It causes a huge scandal. Before me in front of everyone, she shows off with another … “

Discrete 80

Premonitory her song “The Singer” announces his future descent into hell even though historically “The Loir et Cher” the ultimate tube released two years later. The 1980s saw the man removed from the media spotlight, his records are no longer interested. He is said of Hinduism and passionate transcendental meditation plunged into unbridled drug use, first slight and more serious. He entered a period of self-destruction and becomes unmanageable.

During those years of struggling, that will last until the third millennium he connects the wrong decisions. When his appointed lyricist and friend Jean-Michel Rivat offered him the song “Travel, Travel” , it does not show up at the studio, preferring to spend the weekend in Rome. Desireless saves and it will become the standard that we know.

Michel became has-been. He turns to the Christian religion and spends most of his time praying and lives in almost destitute. But as he prepares to another life, he met his second wife Geneviève. “There was almost nothing in his house … I just remember the piano. He wanted to leave but hesitated a little … He jumped squarely! I shouted at crazy … Two months later, I accepted a dinner. And we did not left. “. (Béjo & amp; Stephane Loisy Michel Delpech Inventory, Carpentier Publishing, 2015)

The Air scratch

Michel Delpech scrapes it re-recorded his biggest hits and met Valery Zeitoun that the idea of ​​a duets record. “Michel Delpech & amp; …” released in 2006 saw very many installed singers or new duetter with him: Alain Souchon, Francis Cabrel, Julien Clerc, Laurent Voulzy, Cali … The recipe for these duets not yet hackneyed and directory Michel Delpech loan if truth that the application is waiting for you.

This CD finally gives Michel Delpech in the saddle, the triumphal tour. His life is shelled in yet another autobiography (the third of his hand written) Youth Pass Too Slowly she becomes the subject of a film show this again in which he plays himself, a singer fled to the countryside harassed by bailiffs.

Soundtrack of childhood

When everything seemed to leave, another disease prompt. A long and painful disease, a cancer of the tongue and throat. In 2014 on RTL radio he declared “Bah has not made the choice. Finally, there are two solutions, or leave ship to the bottom of the pool or react quickly, immediately, instantly, to be in the fight … When we have done it … “ Michel Drucker will announce in person the worsening state June 13, 2015, to meet the demand for his lifelong friend. “He died slowly, and if I speak to you is that he asked me to do …” An announcement revolt stepdaughter Pauline moves and number of fans .

In what remains one of his most beautiful songs “The Singer” , Michel Delpech had these words: “I have my rheumatism , Who becomes troublesome. My poor Cecilia, I have 73 years … “ The history decided otherwise, Michel Delpech died at the age of 69. The same week as Lemmy Motörhead. The first incarnation of the soundtrack of our childhood. The second made us believe that it can be eternal

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