A David Bowie museum will open in London in 2025. Let’s ask ourselves how, in French song, we treat the British artist who died in 2016 – a star like the others or a historical figure?
1978, David Bowie enters the heritage of French song: a young man who dreams of being a dancer exchanges at the record store the compilation of Tchaikovsky that his mother gave him against the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie. He then becomes himself Ziggy, one of the characters of the fiction starmaniawritten by Luc Plamondon and composed by Michel Berger.
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In the second episode of These songs that make the news airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Eric Esteve, Ziggy’s Song (In starmania), 1978
Diane Dufresne, Song for Elvis1975
Christopher, Too bad if I forget1979
Renaud, The party1977
Eddie Mitchell, Rock’n’roll syrup1976
Patricia Kass, Normandy Hotel1993
Lomepal, 2002019
Flowters Breakers, The New Pair2013
Heuss L’Enfoiré (feat. Vald), Guccissima2020
Isabelle Adjani, Beautiful yes like Bowie1983
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