The musical “I am going to love you” is on tour throughout France after a very successful premiere in Lille. France Bleu is a partner of this event in the entertainment world.
France Bleu Picardie offers you “Michel Sardou: I will love you, again and again “. This series in 4 episodes is produced by France Bleu Picardie and directed by Luca Chindamo, Maxime Simon & Vincent Schneider.
With the voices of:
– Pierre Billon, author, composer, performer and friend of Michel Sardou
– Serge Denoncourt, stage director and author of the libretto for the musical “I am going to love you”
– Jean Mora (on “The lakes of Connemara”), author and friend of Michel Sardou
EPISODE 1 – I FLY
I fly, it can mean I’m leaving, it can mean I’m leaving forever. “Serge Denoncourt
Pierre Billon : “I made this song called Je vole, je vole dans les tête. In the country, Michel had a small country house and he was at the piano and he was the one who made the music. He doesn’t really know it, he doesn’t really remember. But he was the one who made the music and he started with a pretty nice theme, musical, but which really had no development. the first time I said, “It would be nice if we did a song where you speak.
Pierre Billon : “He’s a wonderful performer, of course, he’s a wonderful actor. And this text, it actually comes from feelings, from things that I had, me, the time when I ran away and I knew that Michel himself had run away when he was a kid. For me, it’s a runaway. For other people, it’s been other interpretations, but let’s say that for me, it’s a runaway. “
Serge Denoncourt: “The song Je vole is performed by Hobbs, who plays a character who will make a career in the United States. It is his last song of the show. It’s interesting because Pierre Billon talks about fugue and Michel Sardou talks about death. In The Aries family. They used the departure from the parents. We use, we will say the Sardou version, which is a character who is going towards death. I fly, that can mean I am leaving , it can mean I’m leaving forever. It can mean I’m leaving because of the drugs. It’s a beautiful song for that, because it allows a lot of interpretation. If it’s an emotional sequence in the show, I don’t even dare give you my answer, but I would tell you that every time we do it in rehearsal, there are tears around the table. So I think yes, it’s a big emotion sequence in the show.
EPISODE 2 – I WILL LOVE YOU
I wanted, but really wanted, to stage this song because everyone sings it like a romantic song. And I don’t agree at all “Serge Denoncourt
Pierre Billon : “I will love you comes out in 76. It is the great era of Michel-seducer. Jacques Revaux made an introduction which, nowadays, would no longer be valid because it lasts a minute and a half. Grandiose, obviously, with the big orchestra, etc. And this song, the first time I heard it, I really got the thrills. This song is incredible. Michel has an incredible voice in there. It’s something. hallucinating. “
Serge Denoncourt : “In the show, it’s Vinicius Timmerman and Emji who sing the song as a duet because we don’t have the honor of having Michel Sardou on stage. And it took me a couple with a great, great song love. The great, very great love songs, there are not so many in the repertoire. There is Que je t’aime, Do not leave me by Brel, there is a song by Aznavour and there , we had one. So that’s even the title of the show. I wanted, but really wanted, to stage this song because everyone sings it like a romantic song. And I’m not agree at all, at all with that. I think it’s a hot, sensual, sexual song. If you read the words and the music well, normally there are chills. There is a very carnal thing happening, so it allows a director to make a very beautiful love song. But in a production, we are going to say a little hot, of a couple who love each other, but not ‘in the sense of r omantic of the term, who love each other physically. “
EPISODE 3 – A GIRL WITH CLEAR EYES
It’s a song that is extremely poignant and that is absolutely sublime. “Pierre Billon
Pierre Billon : “It’s really a pretty special song, a song that I love and that Michel continues to do on stage, he always did it on stage. It’s a song that is not extremely complicated to sing , let’s say, it doesn’t require an incredible vocal performance. On the other hand, it does require an interpretation, we actually come back to Michel Sardou the actor. It requires a crazy interpretation and that’s the life of Michel anyway. it’s really what he thinks, it’s really about his mother, it’s really about his wife, it’s really about his children. It’s a song that’s extremely poignant and it’s absolutely sublime. “
Serge Denoncourt: “My show is built on a series of flashbacks, so we meet this kid’s mother. So he’s going to sing, ‘The Girl with the Clear Eyes.’ And what’s different is that the boy singing it, he is 18, so he just realized that in order to exist his mother, she had to make love. He just understood this thing. It’s not like when Sardou sings it, so there is something something very, very touching, and there, all of a sudden, we hear his words and we are very moved for this kid.
So, all, all, it affects almost all of us. One day, we understood that our mother, before having us, she made love, therefore, and it is a shock for all the children of the world. And I think the fact that it’s sung by a young man gives it a new lease of life, let’s say. “
EPISODE 4 – THE LAKES OF CONNEMARA
I am going to surprise you but I did not know the lakes of Connemara. “Serge Denoncourt
Jean Mora : “The music was born in the following way: Jacques Revaux had gone to a seminar and Jacques, always very conscientious, arrived one day before the others to bring back his equipment because he had all his synths. There was a button on it. ‘we called auto-tune. At the time, it is not the same function, but this button allowed to tune all the oscillators with each other. It’s very hot, it goes very, very badly. Well, he’s not paying attention. There, he starts playing and it was out of tune. It sounds “yeah-yeah-yeah”. It gave him the idea He said, “It’s amazing. It looks like a bagpipe. “. And he started playing the theme and all of a sudden it gave the idea to make this first music on the lakes of Connemara.”
Pierre Billon : “He is doing this” yeah-yeah-yeah “and at that moment, Delanoë passes who says” But that’s great. You’re doing an Irish thing to us. Delanoë takes his car and goes to Mer, it is a small village which is next to Chambord and Blois. And there, he is with Michel, they go to the travel agency. They are going to look for a flyer for trips to Ireland: “Traveling to Lake Connemara”. And Michel never believed that it could work: an Irish wedding in the lakes of Connemara, he absolutely does not see who it could interest. And ostensibly, he was wrong. “
Serge Denoncourt : “So I’m going to surprise you, but I didn’t know The Lakes of Connemara. In Quebec, this song is not very well known. I hadn’t put it in the original musical and all the French people around me tell me “But you’re crazy, are you doing something about Sardou, there’s no Connemara?” I said “But why would there be Connemara?” “But because it’s a hit, because it’s a big song. “So, I listen to it carefully. I have a character who is of Irish origin and who tells us about his parents’ wedding. Everyone tells me that people are going to stand up and stomp their feet, tap with my hands and I welcome it with a lot, a lot of joy. “