I repeat what Michel Sardou has just sung: “I like the French, all the French, even the French that I don’t like.” It’s hard to get more patriotic than this song released twenty-two years ago. We could make a whole chronicle with Michel Sardou’s declarations of love to his country, songs that mark his entire career and always take care to spare the opposing camps. remember the song The Two Schoolsin 1984, which evoked, and I quote: “This sacred Republic which says yes, which says no / Eldest daughter of the Church and the Convention / She would be very happy if her masters left her / Free to make love and go to mass.” Yes, it’s a bit literary, this way of national harmony, so let’s draw another more musky quote from Sardou. In 1970 in I live in France…
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Michel Sardo, French2000
Michel Sardo, I live in France1970
Maurice Chevalier, That makes excellent French people1939
Marc Lavoine, This is France1996
Mike Ibrahim, France that gets up early2010
Geabe, My France2015
Pierre Perret, My France To Me2018
Anne Sylvester, Family for family1968
Jean Ferrat, My France1969
Abd Al Malik, It’s heavy2008
Michel Sardo, The Two Schools1984
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.