The portrait of a Frenchman in a residential suburb from the pen of Renaud – a portrait of the country of the Phoenix houses which you heard about being placed in compulsory liquidation this week on France Info. Renaud’s friends – there are many of them – will have recognized My garden gnome, 2002 song full of compassion for one of those French people he loved to hate.
Renaud grew up in an apartment building in the 14th arrondissement, and he gave a voice to the inhabitants of the large housing estates in the Parisian suburbs. And so the pavilions were enemy territory: chic pavilions of Neuilly in goodbye babe in 1977 or pavilions of worker conformism in fight in 1980…
In the second episode of These songs that make the news airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Renaud, my garden gnome2002
Renaud, goodbye babe1977
Renaud, Fight!, 1980
Vald, Last withdrawal2019
Vald, Aulnay sous Bois2014
Vald, Guedin2012
Fabe, Tough guys, bosses, dombis1997
Lefa at Youssoupha, Cash2021
Guizmo, Sincerely yours2017
Kery James, December 28, 19772012
113, At the peak2003
Renaud, my garden gnome2002
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.