His book “My ideal disco” was released on October 12, 2023 and Eddy Mitchell continues to promote it, on the radio, as the end-of-year holidays approach. The ex Black Sock and the ex Vieille Canaille was at the microphone of Alba Ventura, this November 3, 2023, on RTL. And he explained to the journalist why his lifelong best friend, the late Johnny Hallyday, who died in December 2017, had not been included in his choice of favorite songs.
“Johnny, I have tons of him, but to listen to them again, no”
Eddy Mitchell assured: “When we say ideal disco, these are titles that come up often. Johnny, I have tons of him, but from there to listening to them again, no. That’s the difference”. And to add about the Taulier: “Yes of course I miss him, there is not a day that goes by without there being an anecdote that comes up or a thought for him.”
In the rest of the selection, the rocker cited the boss, James Brown, whose praises he sang. Concerning the interpreter of “Sex Machine”he assured: “On stage, he was absolutely extraordinary. He was the first guy who did incredible sequences between songs. Between each song, he bowed, but everyone in the room was stunned, no one applauded, people were stuck”.
This singer who got him into rock’n’roll
Besides Frank Sinatra, who should be taught in English classes at school, he says, Eddy Mitchell also had a word for Bill Haley, whom he discovered when he was young, and who introduced him to rock’n’n’roll. ‘roll. He admitted that without him, he would probably still be a bank employee, at Crédit Lyonnais, his old life, before music.
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