October 1, 2018 will mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Charles Aznavour. But before that, Thursday, May 19, Gérard Davoust and Erik Berchot will unveil the book Aznavour seen from the back.
In this book, these two relatives have also told, this gesture that the legendary singer did not support. “Charles had been saying for a very long time – I was still just a simple spectator – that a photo taken with a flash is terrible. He was very virulent about it. Which we can very well understand because this aggression brings the artist back into his reality, that is to say, he suddenly sees himself singing”indicated the first quoted, in remarks quoted by our colleagues from Tele-Leisure. “The photo does not bother me, it is the flash that bothers me. Be nice, take as many photos as you want, but do not use the flash”explained the second.
Readers will be able to discover this anecdote revealed by the authors, always on the same subject. “There was a moment, I don’t know what or who it was, when he became fixated on the flash of cameras”can we read on this episode dating back to 2011. “It happened after a succession of cities, like in Bordeaux, where he had to repeatedly remind the public about the use of flashes…”.
During a performance on the side of Lille, the interpreter of Take me away stopped singing four times on the first title. “At the end, the round of applause barely subsiding, Charles addressed the spectators, pointing at them one by one: ‘You disturbed me with your flash… You too…’. And so That is to say, during the seven minutes of the song in which he overwhelmed us all with emotion, he had been able, in an instant, to remember the precise place of where the flashes had gone and to report who had pissed him off! It was mind-blowing”.
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Adam Javal-Fauconnier