If Michael Jones is known by the youngest for having been one of the professors of the Star Academy, the Welsh singer is also famous for his fruitful artistic collaboration with Jean-Jacques Goldman in the 80s. It must be said that the song Je gives you is a real hit in 1985. A real hit that will remain No. 1 in the Top 50 for eight weeks! “For 20 years I have been doing it with the public or my fellow musicians, or female artists. It’s a song that is made to be sung together, so it’s an ideal song for duets. I take advantage of it whenever I can“, he confided to BFM. “Jean-Jacques Goldman is the brother I chose”, he then explained a few days ago on the set of C à vous on France 5. “We didn’t ask any questions. We immediately started playing together. And it went ‘gling’”, he confided to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. If the collaboration was artistic and eminently personal, Michael Jones also confides that the interpreter of There opened a few doors for him.
“I can date exactly the day my life changed. In 1985, after the release of I give you in duet with Jean-Jacques Goldman, the attitude of others has changed. For example, I had less trouble getting credit from the bank. And they offered to give me instruments, clothes. Before, I had to save to buy guitars!“, he thus confided to Gala on the occasion of its exceptional 1500th issue devoted to the theme of celebrity.
“Fame hasn’t changed me: I never go to fashionable places, I live in the countryside, near Lyon. Jean-Jacques Goldman and I wanted to sing the meeting of two cultures, of two horizons. Jean-Jacques the Frenchman [qui habite entre Londres et Marseille, NDLR], and me from Wales. Like him, I think that if you want to write songs, you shouldn’t stray from real life, stay as close as possible to people. […] Besides, I don’t know how he manages to do without contact with the public. Me, I can’t, I can never“, he also confided.
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