Whether TF1 will broadcast the second salvo of the Battles of The Voice, France 2 will bet on the TV movie, Groundswell while France 3 will offer a documentary directed by Bernard Faroux. A new program entitled, All the singers are called Michel which traces the parallel paths of six major figures of French song: Michel Berger, Michel Delpech, Michel Fugain, Michel Jonasz, Michel Polnareff, Michel Sardou.“From the end of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1990s, Michels, there are plenty of them on the record covers, plenty of the radios, plenty of the TV shows. There are six of them, above all, that we have never stopped listening since, for the joy of living or for the emotions that emerge from their songs: Michel Berger, the sensitive, Michel Delpech, the tender, Michel Fugain, the enthusiastic, Michel Jonasz, the nostalgic, Michel Polnareff, the eccentric, Michel Sardou, the flamboyant. They are all called Michel: what if it wasn’t a coincidence?”.
All born between 1942 and 1947, these artists will keep this first name (very fashionable at the time) on stage and impose themselves in the French musical landscape.
Michel Sardou fuel thief before becoming a music star
Although success will knock on their door, there is one who will establish himself as one of the biggest record sellers in France, namely Michel Sardou. However, the interpreter of Connemara Lakes Or love sickness had a difficult start.
In the documentary, as our colleagues from Tele-Leisurethe singer confided in a defining moment of his life.
In 1968, France experienced one of the greatest social movements in its history. Several million people stop working following a call for a general strike and quickly, gas stations find themselves dry. To cope with it, the 21-year-old star at the time turns into “petrol thief”. “I remember that I was going to the neighborhoods, to Neuilly, where there were cars with big full tanks. I had my jerrycan tube and I was pumping gasoline. It made me sick, because I was pumping a lot!”
A few years later, will come out popular ballshis first big hit!
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