It’s an important date. On September 25, 1985, 38 years ago to the day, Coluche launched his appeal at the origin of the creation of Restos du coeur: “I have a little idea like that, if sometimes there are brands who hear me, who are interested in ‘sponsoring’ a free canteen, a restaurant, for example, which would initially aim to make 2,000, 3,000 covers per day, free of charge”he launched on the airwaves of
Europe 1.
A speech commented by Maryse Gildas in Pascal Praud and you
(Europe 1) this Monday, September 25, 2023. And for good reason, at the time, the host of There will be something for everyone was at Coluche’s side when he said his words. “He had probably imagined it a few hours before but without talking about it or all alone in his head”remembered the former radio host before letting it be known that everything happened very quickly afterwards: “The second day he said we needed a hit. He asked who was making hits at the moment, I told him ‘Goldman’he has answered ‘call me Goldman’ “she added.
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A charity hit
Maryse Gildas then remembered the telephone conversation between the two men: “He takes Jean-Jacques Goldman on the phone, he tells him ‘here’s my girl, I need a tube like you know how to make. I would like a star who speaks, a man, Yves Montand, a woman, Nathalie Baye, […] and for sport Platini and then also Deneuve’. In the end, we don’t hear Deneuve because they recorded her at the end of the world on the phone and it didn’t go over well, but the little voice we hear at the end is Catherine.she revealed.
In February 1986 was born The Restaurant Song, composed and written by Jean-Jacques Goldman. A charity hit that sold over 500,000 copies upon its release.
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