No way for Michael Jones to retire! At 71, the famous Franco-Welsh guitarist, author and composer is still on stage, he who in December 2022 released the album “The Goldman Heritage Volume 2”. Once again, he pays tribute to his lifelong friend, with whom he collaborated for many years in the group “Taï Phong” in the late 1970s.
In March 2023, Michael Jones recalled his meeting with Jean-Jacques Goldman in an interview with Élodie Suigo: “You should know that I joined the Taï Phong group to replace Jean-Jacques who did not want to tour. But afterwards, I understood why. The group Taï Phong had immense ideas and they thought that they were going to be able to tour like Pink Floyd. So we had enormous machinery to play in front of 300 people. And so I met Jean-Jacques at the time where it was necessary to choose the songs for the third album, with Jean Maresca who was the producer at the time. And it was love at first sight immediately “he explained.
The two acolytes will then chain the hits including the essential “I give you” released in 1985 until Jean-Jacques Goldman decides to end his career in 2003, in order to raise his children peacefully in England. Since then, Michael Jones has continued to pay tribute to his friend and he has just gone on tour to present “The Goldman Legacy”, a show where several artists perform the singer’s emblematic hits.
“We don’t call each other anymore…”
Asked about Goldman’s absence recently, Michael Jones had given his unexpected point of view in an interview: “I don’t think people miss Jean-Jacques Goldman because he still exists through his songs. . But he left us his songs and I think people identify a lot more with the songs than with the artist himself.”
This Sunday, April 30, 2023, Michael Jones was the guest of Laurent Delahousse in his program “8:30 p.m. on Sunday” on France 2. The opportunity for him to once again talk about Jean-Jacques Goldman and to answer in particular the question that everyone is asking: has Jean-Jacques Goldman ever attended the show dedicated to him? “We would like to, it would be great. But I think that if he was there, we wouldn’t know… Me, he told me that he would tell me anyway! “launched Michael Jones. The artist then revealed if he is still in contact with Jean-Jacques Goldman: “We no longer call each other but we send text messages or emails. We are modern.” did he declare.
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