I belong to a considerable troop: the Spanish that we fell in love with Françoise Hardy. Among the rumble of the French Yeyé, she was different. Not only because of its skeletal Percha: singing distilled a high octane melancholy. That devotion of ours overlap with a certain hatred by Jacques Dutrnc, her boyfriend, then husband; From what they said, he didn’t behave too well with her.
That raised a dilemma. It turns out that Dutronc was also a first talent. A pioneer of the first rock & roll French with the bull et les cyclones, which- after working in the artistic department of vogue- was reinvented as dandi of the chanson. Started with a sound between Garajero and Dylaniano before revealing unexpected resources, in the languid I love girls And, above all, with It is five o’clock, Paris awakenssublime portrait of the city that wakes up just when- he could not stop mentioning him- he lies.
Throughout his musical career, Dutronc has demonstrated an impertinent mood, stressed by titles such as The opportunist o The adventurer; It should be noted that they were not necessarily self -portraits. In 1973, he began working in the cinema and his albums were spied. Most of his films were intended for internal consumption, although he had international successes with The important thing is to love y Van Gogh.
Now there is an opportunity to better understand your career with the translation of And me, and me, and me. MemoriasInitiative of two -phase monster, the very Francophila editorial of Felipe Cabrerizo. It is a book by pulling modest, with few appearances of the Hardy (and less than its next companion, Sylvie Duval). Actually, we are facing the chronicle of a creature born with a flower in the ass. A little for Chiripa, he is working with directors such as Lelouch, Godard, Chabrol, Pialat, Zulawski. It does not boast of great qualities, “a protagonist with blue eyes always works.” Although he laments that projects with Wim Wenders or Spielberg did not go ahead: “My English is still very bad.”
As a singer-composition, Dutrnc is atypical: he puts music in foreign letters, sparkling in the case of his main collaborator, journalist Jacques Lanzmann. They ended badly, but they reconciled. One suspects that Dutronc needs someone who turns on the fuse and takes him out of his idyllic house of Corsica. That was Serge Gainsbourg, a collaborator in War and PETS (eschatological joke from War and peacefrom León Tolstobo). Thomas Dutrnc also helped, the son he had with Françoise, although it was a late discovery: Jacques refused to give guitar lessons and did not know that he also sang; They ended up recording and turning together.
He enjoyed another peak of popularity in the last decade, with the supergroup the old channels, formed with two scenic beasts such as Johnny Halliday and Eddy Mitchell. He says he had a bad time when he had to admit that, he didn’t dominate the repertoire of his partners. Typically, Dutrc does not tell intimacies of a tour that had to be- in all the senses- wild, although he explains that he could then meet Charles Aznavour, whom he overwhelmed by telling him his admiration … until the author of Mom He interrupted him to confess that he could not find out anything: he had forgotten the hearing aid. Ah, the octogenarians of the Varietés.