30 years after his death, Michel Berger continues to blackmail

Thirty years after his death, Tuesday August 2, Michel Berger and his songs are still in everyone’s mind. “His songs are of a poetry and a romanticism that touch me”, says a woman. Michel Berger was a bourgeois teenager whose first steps as a yéyé singer were not promising. His first successes were carried by performers such as Véronique Sanson with Song about my funny life or even Françoise Hardy for whom he wrote Personal message.

Michel Berger’s albums remain confidential until 1980. “Once he tasted the success of the pianist’s groupie (…) he really liked having success with the public”explains François Alquier, author ofA life in songs (ed. Hugo Doc). With France Gall, whose life he shares, they are frequently invited to TV shows. He met with worldwide success thanks to the musical Starmania.