Gilbert Bécaud is died on December 18, 2001, of generalized cancer, at the age of 74. the twentieth anniversary of his disappearance looming … but nothing very grandiloquent seems intended for this purpose. On November 19, 2021, his daughter Emily Bécaud will release a triple CD, entitled I come back for you, at Warner Music, and recorded three virtual duets with his father on them. On December 17th, Isabelle Georges will release the album Isabelle Georges sings Becaud. Then Jacques Pessis will co-sign a book with Claude Lemesle at Editions de l’Archipel. And that’s about it.
That’s why he did so little …
No exhibition, no tribute to television is announced. No Bécaud museum has ever opened in France. And for good reason. By having six children from three different mothers – his daughter Anne died in 2019 in a fire –, Gilbert Bécaud sowed, without knowing it, a certain administrative mess. In the race for asset management, it is Gilbert, the eldest nicknamed Gaya, who won the case in 2016. However, the 68-year-old would have been stroke victim right after his victory. “That’s why he did so little, explains his daughter, Marguerite, to the newspaper Le Figaro. He actually released a record re-orchestrated in his own way, a few compilations and that’s it. For the ten years since Gilbert died in 2011, he did nothing.“
The boss is always me!
Gaya Bécaud would, on the contrary, be more used to putting sticks in the wheels of those who wish to give a wink to his artist dad. “He has a lot of archives without using them, regrets Danièle Senocq, president of a Gilbert Bécaud fan club located in Belgium. He never gave us 380 slides which have a strong emotional value for us. We have invited him to Brussels many times, without success.“Even the CD which comes out on November 19, 2021 should cause a lot of worry for Emily Bécaud, who has worked in the shadows without talking about it with the rest of the family.”Little Bécaud acts as if she were all alone but the boss is always me, assures Gaya. Re-edit the songs, I already did twenty years ago. ”
By dint of unspoken and misunderstandings, Gilbert Bécaud’s repertoire gradually falls into oblivion. His title I come back for you has, however, been used, recently, in an advertising campaign in favor of the vaccine against Covid-19 …