The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday“(Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 20 hours news on France 2, tells about an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to the collective history. Reports that reveal “the little story in the big one”, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 4 of “8:30 pm on Saturday” plunges into the legend Michel Polnareff …
The day when> Michel Polnareff locks himself up for 800 days and 800 nights
Michel Polnareff has been a UFO in the musical world since his beginnings with his guitar on the steps of Montmartre or on the terraces of cafes. He refused all executives and fled labels, but obtained a dazzling success from his first title, in 1966, with The Doll Who Does No. His androgynous look and his texts advocating sexual freedom often attract the wrath of the press. Why does this man who hates being locked in boxes choose to confine himself for 800 days and 800 nights in a Parisian hotel, without ever leaving it? From this famous “blue period”, as Polnareff himself designates, will be born Goodbye marylou and the album Kâmâ-Sutrâ…
Bonus> Michel Polnareff recto verso
Michel Polnareff is also a taste for provocation and a certain radicalism. In 1972, the artist prepares for his return to the Olympia by displaying his posterior on posters… all over Paris!
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– Behind the glasses, by Christian Eudeline (ed. Fayard).
– Sperm, Autobiography, by Michel Polnareff (ed. Fayard).
– Polnareff Mania. Tribute from a fan to an icon, by Christophe Lauga (ed. Scali).
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