It’s been a few days since singer Lizzy Ling posted an admiring and loving tribute to the good master online. Yes, the good teacher, this immense Georges Brassens who reigns high up there in the Olympus of the artists of our popular culture and who is among the few singers who inspire songs, many songs. Moreover, it begins during his lifetime. In 1962, Jean Ferrat, who had not yet reached the heights, published In Brassens, an admiring missive, which allows him to speak badly, in passing, of the music traders …
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Lizzy Ling, Kiss Brassens, 2021
Jean Ferrat, In Brassens, 1962
Christmas Colombier, Thank you Brassens, 1968
Joe Dassin, The time of fried eggs, 1969
Adamo, Eddy Cochran, Buddy Holly and Brassens, 1972
Jean-Marie Vivier, Plead with Georges Brassens not to enter the French Academy, 1972
Georges Moustaki, Friends of Georges, 1974
Jean-Philippe André, Georges, 1978
Adamo, Eddy Cochran, Buddy Holly and Brassens, 1972
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a journey through the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered to be the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent Un été en Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.
All summer 2016, in the company of Vincent Delerm, we wandered around in La Playlist amoureuse de la chanson, truant exploration of popular heritage. You can also extend the delicacies of this summer column with the French song lover dictionary, co-published by Plon and franceinfo.