Discreet and modest, Jean-Jacques Goldman is a mysterious man at the heart of the documentary broadcast on W9 this August 24, 2022, but perhaps less than his half-brother Pierre Goldman. The 70-year-old singer has almost never mentioned this man who was part of his life and led a tumultuous life, between political commitment and robberies. He was murdered in 1979 at the age of 35 by men claiming responsibility for the crime on behalf of the far-right police honor group, but the perpetrators were never arrested. A mystery that appears in the biography written by his childhood friend Jean Bender.
Jean-Jacques Goldman never wanted to dwell on the death of his half-brother Pierre Goldman, who was shot and killed in cold blood. “It was very complicated for Jean-Jacques, who was starting to have success at that time. Already he was fearful and did not want to put himself forward … It may seem indecent to talk about it”said the relative of the artist to Tele-Leisure. He explains that he devoted a few pages to the question in his book because the interpreter of Like you had a strong relationship with his eldest, from a relationship of his father Alter Mojszet Goldman and Janine Sochaczewska, a Polish communist resistant. The author of the biography adds, without providing many details: “it was complicated for her parents, for her brother Robert, for her eldest daughter Caroline who was already born...”
Since his appearance at the funeral, Jean-Jacques Goldman has never returned to this affair, evoking it only in archive images released in 2018 in the documentary Goldman, Balavoine, Shepherd broadcast on France 3: “It’s probably someone who counted, like all the people who are close to you or who are part of your family, because you try to understand them, you experience their paradoxes, their mysteries.. And Peter, it’s a mystery. I was also a bit atypical in the family, in the sense that I was politically a musician.”
Author-composer of genius, Jean-Jacques Goldman would he have devoted one of his songs to this brother with a tragic destiny? It’s an idea that emerged and that makes sense listening to the words of Since you’re leaving, title on the album Between light gray and dark gray released in November 1987. But difficult to find out more from this father of 6 children, living in Marseilles with his wife Nathalie and who is only looking for discretion and calm.