All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Friday January 21, a huge success but also a singular song, which looks at the beloved woman while she is expecting a child.
Love song, and song of a particular moment in heterosexual love: the posture of the boy in love who sees something happen that seems incomprehensible and crystal clear to him at the same time. His companion is pregnant and their relationship is upset, even before the birth of the child. He is no longer the center of attention, even if he still finds a way to express his love.
It is an understatement to note thatknocked upthis song that Renaud released in 1983, marked the spirits – and the public of the last tours of the singer easily testifies.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Renaud, Knocked up, 1983
Renaud, knocked up (in public), 2017
Collective for women’s songs, The Blister, 1978
Alice Donna, From flat belly to round belly, 1978
Serge Lama, From flat belly to round belly, 1978
Michel Sardo, A child, 1972
Renaud, Song for Pierrot, 1979
Renaud, Morgana of you, 1983
Renaud, Knocked up, 1983
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