He’s always been known to be a cash person. In his work The color of ghosts (ed. Talents Editions), Jean-Jacques Debout proves it once again by giving himself up with an open heart. The opportunity for the reader to plunge back into the Yéyé years in particular, and to discover crazy anecdotes, old and other more recent, on the glories of this generation. The betrayal of Sylvie Vartan, the madness of Serge Gainsbourg but not only, because the brothers Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff have also crossed paths with the husband of Chantal Goya. And with Grichka, they especially loved a woman “a little lit” in common.
It is indeed a rather improbable account that Jean-Jacques Debout makes of this anecdote. “They had a slightly crazy sidereports the 82-year-old songwriter about the Bogdanoff brothers, who died six days apart in January 2022, from the consequences of Covid-19. Grichka was the nicer of the two. Their problem is that they played it serious.“He remembers many discussions during which they did not expect any response. “In these cases, there is no possible dialogue. They were just waiting to be told they were awesome and great“, he says. Jean-Jacques Debout met them at the end of the 1950s. And it was because of a girl they had both known…
A “very pretty girl“, also fell in love with Charles Aznavour
“I had had a summer romance on the Ile de Ré with a very pretty girl, named Claudie Laurent, says Jean-Jacques Debout in his book. Next, she had fallen in love with Jean-Loup Dabadie, Charles Aznavour then Grichka Bogdanoff.“The “kind of love” that we experience in the summer when we are young, as the author recalls. “When you are not yet looking to settle down with someone“, he specifies. About this Claudie Laurent, who had visibly charmed the greatest number, he writes “this girl was still a little turned on“.”Lovely but stamped“, we learn. And when Claudie Laurent meets the brother of Igor Bogdanoff, the latter wants to get into the song. She will therefore organize a meeting with Jean-Jacques Debout. “Peace to his soul, but I must admit that I found him crazy and he scared mestill remembers the husband of Chantal Goya. And when he introduced me to his brother Igor, I was even more afraid.” So he did not seek to see them again or work with them.