The difficult material situation that actor Jean-Pierre Léaud is going through moves his friends, who have alerted the public to the difficulties of artists reaching a certain age. And this subject has been questioning the song for a long time…
It must be recognized that Michel Delpech killed the match a little. There is hardly a song, in the first person singular, that speaks with so much darkness and smiles at the same time. He was not even thirty years old in 1975 and, in when i was a singer, he imagines his seventy-three years as a retired artist. He would have reached that age in January 2019.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news, airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Michel Delpech, When I was a singer 1975
Stella, Goodbye microphone, hello grooves, 1965
Jacques Brel, La la la, 1967
Michael Jonasz, world cruises, 1997
Jacques Brel, To get old, 1977
Barbara, Drouot, 1970
Maurice Chevalier, old mutt, 1955
Vincent Delarm, All the actors are called Terence, 2008
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