We no longer present either Laurent Voulzy or Alain Souchon, great artists and friends for decades. Guest on the show Telematin Tuesday, November 9, the interpreter of April girl, who is releasing a new album Anthology and a book on his love for the Middle Ages, entitled My cathedrals (Stock), returned to his long friendship with Alain Souchon. A relationship that would make any couple green with jealousy, and that the main parties themselves do not understand! “I can’t explain it … We don’t really know how to explain it that, from time to time, Alain calls me just to tell me: ‘We’re lucky to have met’. he hangs up”, entrusted the singer to Julia Vignali and Thomas Sotto.
But like in any relationship, Voulzy and Souchon have had their ups and downs. In more than 45 years of friendship in the city as on the stage, the father of Julien Voulzy and the father of Charles Souchon quarreled only once and it will have lasted, in everything and for everything. “6 or 7 seconds”, as Laurent Voulzy boasts. “We hung up on each other once and called back within 10 seconds. I called back!”, said the 72-year-old singer-songwriter. Before telling about the only little quarrel he had with his best friend.
“I had to write songs with Alain and I was recording the album Bopper in Tears (1983). JI took, as usual, much longer than expected and Alain was waiting for me. In the meantime he had done 3, 4 songs but he was waiting for me to do more. I said to him: ‘Listen Alain, I am far from having finished’. I had promised him that I would be done on time and he did not appreciate the delay. He got angry and hung up“, said Laurent Voulzy. “But ten seconds later it was over“, he concluded. As a shouting match, we have seen much worse!