The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, reveals the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 5 tells two stories of artists, those of Brel and Riopy saved by music…
The day when > Jacques Brel frees himself from his father
“When you want to do something, you have to dive like crazy and do it, even if it means making mistakes. I prefer to make mistakes and I prefer to dive.” With Jacques Brel, life had to be intense. Fleeing grayness and boredom was almost an obsession with him. However, his childhood did not really give him a glimpse of an artist’s life: a conventional environment, a father who was the boss of a cardboard company in Brussels… Brel would even say: “My father wanted to put me in a box.” So how did he manage to free himself from his chains to chart his own course? “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” tells how Jacques Brel freed himself…
And also, an abandoned piano, accompanied films…
News > Riopy, the prodigy
This is the story of another musical prodigy who has radically cut ties with his background. It was a matter of survival. He is now one of the most listened to and downloaded pianists in the world. In January 2022, his latest album reached #1 on the US Billboard for Classical Music Albums, ahead of world-famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang! Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rio-Py, known as Riopy, grew up in a sect in the Deux-Sèvres department where music and television were banned. His only companion in this mental prison: an abandoned piano that brought him to international fame…
Bonus > Clint Eastwood at the piano
He is the American actor who has shot the most films, but he also had time to develop a passion for the piano. Clint Eastwood composed the music for his films himself Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
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– Jacky – Jacques Brel, chronicle of a lifeby France Brel (ed. Brel Foundation).
– Brel, the waltz of a thousand dreamsby Eddy Przybylski (ed. L’Archipel).
Non-exhaustive list.
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