The retirement at sixty-four, which causes such a stir in France, is mentioned in a song by the Beatles. And singers are not always in a hurry to stop…
Sixty-four is the age imagined by Paul McCartney of the Beatles in 1967, on the album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, to talk about his future retirement – gardening, weeding, tinkering around the house… He is twenty-five years old, and he therefore projects himself at sixty-four, this retirement age around which France has been tumult for long weeks. And a few months later, in the fall of 1967, Marcel Amont adapted his song in French.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
The Beatles, When I’m Sixty-Four1967
Marcel Amont, In forty-five years1967
Charles Aznavour, I won’t say goodbye1987
Jacques Brel, To get old1977
Maxime Le Forestier We will be old1977
Jacques Brel, The, the, the, 1967
Montehus, Come on Leon1936
Leo Ferre, Retirees1964
Jean Ferrat, The mountain1964
Serge Lama, Retirement2023
Gauvain Sers, feat. Anne Sylvester, There is no retirement for artists2019
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