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00:00I don't know too much about Paris, every time I've come here it's been work, they work me
00:19and they work me and they don't give me any time to see Paris, but um...
00:24I arrived with a little song, it wasn't easy to pass, but it didn't scare me, on the contrary, I found it very good.
00:34Go find out, I may be someone who thinks.
00:43When I sing this song in general, when the first guitar chords occur,
00:53I want to point out to you the existence of a simulator that combines the provinces with my repertoire.
01:02Goodbye, maybe with a next son. Ciao, good night to everyone, thank you all, thank you very much.
01:11I arrived in Paris when I was 17, and obviously I didn't speak French very well, not at all.
01:20To have a rose in his name is something extraordinary, very moving.
01:24As I said to Michel Adams, there was a ray of sun for the songs and for the baptism, and the rain comes back.
01:32It's not like me to be fashionable when you're a good priest, because it's obvious that if you're a good priest,
01:37you can't come with a jupe, a raspe, a rat du minou.
01:43I didn't become a singer to please or annoy, excuse me the term,
01:48my uncle or my aunt, I don't know.
01:52I left a system, a kind of prison, if you will, which consists of coming back every year, going around singing.
02:01It's a strange language, but it's not even worth going to special mathematics to understand it.
02:05First or second would be enough, it's just an arithmetic trick.
02:12I don't know, I don't know if you have to make movies, if you have to be funny, I don't know.
02:18I'm happy because it's Providence that wanted it, I think.
02:25In fact, there has never really been what we call a comeback.
02:30No, no, there's no comeback, it's a career that's been going on since...
02:35At the time, they were voice singers.
02:37And I said to Mike, we're talking about it with Sylvie, this guy would be great for this song.
02:44The duck cutlet is excellent.
02:48It's a unique French duck.
02:53When we had to play, it was just the time of the liberation of Annecy, it was in 1944.
03:02I'm going to try, without laughing for once, to introduce you to the debate of the century that is taking place tonight and that we will face.
03:11I can't help but live and live on stage.
03:14I'm happy on stage and you can see it.
03:17I don't do anything.
03:20I did tours all over the world, I sang in Russia, I sang in Japan, I sang in Canada, I sang in Belgium.
03:26It's a little less far, but it's very good too.
03:29I had sung rhythm songs before, in 1937, at my debut at ABC.
03:34I started in November 1937 at ABC with Josh.
03:38Then it's the fault of people who got used to considering me as Mrs. Ferra.
03:47My career, I don't think it's a career, it looks like me.
03:54I think I'm on a slightly off track track.
03:57And then I prepared an album in Italian, an album with all the covers, 15 songs among the most beautiful.
04:08I admit, and this is where time flies by, I see it again as I see the time of school again, the time of my prime youth, with a kind of melancholy.
04:20Well, listen, Toulouse, I wrote it in Paris, I was very unhappy.
04:24And there was the woman with whom I was.
04:29I don't have a lot of luck, but I have extraordinary luck, I was able to sing.
04:38When they write letters, apart from the admiration I have for you as an artist, they tell their life to them.
04:47Then I did others, then I did other records, then I stopped, then I had bad appointments, and today I have good ones.
04:58If my brother could hear me, I would tell him to come back, because he is told that he goes there for peace, and these are lies.
05:03He goes there for the bastards of the powers who created wars, wherever they are, for ideologies and religions, and that all this is bullshit.
05:11It happened like the cherry on the cake, when I had composed and made the whole album, and then as if the work had been rather well done.
05:21We made an album together, an album that did not come out in France, which was songs by Platters and Elvis Presley.
05:30We did it in 1983.
05:33I lived in perfect harmony with Mouche, she is a perfect woman, very beautiful, very good cook, very good, in short, everything I like, very good psychological, moral assistant, in short, everything.
05:46That is to say, when you are sick, of course, it is very difficult to have a good moral, but still, even if I managed to let myself down a little bit, immediately I took over.
05:59Not any special one.
06:03There was only a girl that I was seeing quite often over there, that her father was in the Air Force, and actually they only got over there about...
06:12We do not write for ourselves, I mean, we write for the... I mean, I write for others, and it is true that if I can be good, fair, in any case, it makes me happy.
06:25My daughter Nolwenn, it is a very good song, it is cute, it is a little waltz, and it is dedicated to a boy called...
06:36I had faith, I still have faith, and I will always have it. It is something that forces me to continue living.
06:47Is it the only one?
06:48Is it the only one?
06:49Yes, it is the only one, yes. My wife does not feel much, so of course...
06:55Michel is terrible, yes, of course. We like him or we do not like him.
07:00Because we thought that if we put Don Camillo and the contestants, it would affect all the youth.
07:06And these contestants are the ones who contest Don Camillo.
07:10I always had the impression that I was going to die at the age of 28, 27, 28, it still leaves me 6 years old.
07:19But it's weird, I do not see myself in 20 years.
07:23My daughter left this world...
07:29So there, we do not believe it.
07:34Seeing my father sing, one day he told me, let's do a song together, it will make us remember.
07:39So we did it like that.
07:41And it allowed me to realize something very early, that I did not have to focus on the song.
07:47When I left the Dorothée club in 1996, for three years, it was pretty much correct.
07:54The ascetics, but when the ascetics stopped, I very quickly understood that I was closing in.
08:00I was talking to the invisible forces that are likely to help us.
08:05And so I told them, but if that's my life, I'd rather be dead.
08:10The first time I met Claude François, it was at a gala.
08:14We were doing the same gala.
08:16So since we had about the same fans.
08:20Oh, so this is a subject that is very, very, very, very vast.
08:25In what we are a modern expression of the song.
08:27That is to say that we are in the tradition of...
08:30Why do we use it?
08:32I mean, why do we use anything?
08:34I mean, it does not necessarily mean I study demonology and things.
08:38I just love them.
08:40The word be all superb.
08:42I was doing my studies, and at the same time I was learning classical singing.
08:47And one day, all of a sudden, I was in Casablanca, and the platers were there at the same time.
08:52Their empresario listened to me sing at a friend's house.
08:55Ah, mon Dieu, tu es tombé, tombé, tu n'es toujours pas tranquille.
08:59Ah, mon Dieu, tu es tombé, tombé, tu n'es pas bien pour toi.
09:01So let's try to repeat that with everyone.
09:03That way, everyone will sing.
09:05When I work on my songs, I have my eyes on my paper or my guitar.
09:09So I don't really need to see flowers through the window.
09:12And I'm not very fond of flowers either.
09:15It was a young dentist, one day, who asked me if he could see me.
09:20And he offered me his first song, his first composition.
09:26Yes, it was a real thrill to experience that on a daily basis.
09:32And you don't get used to it.
09:35In school, we learn Ego, but generally, children get bored.
09:39So I wanted to show that the main activity of Victor Ego was counter-petry.
09:45I think that this group may have prolonged our adolescence a little bit.
09:50I think that there are many substances as well.
09:53And now that we are calmer, we continue to be on the move.
09:56Yes, yes, I went far.
09:58I went far, I came back, I left.
10:00I did a lot of things.
10:02I went to live with the rich, with the poor.
10:05We don't think about anything, at least for me.
10:08I think, you shouldn't call me chiche.
10:11Because if you call me chiche, I take up the challenge.
10:16We had a good laugh, but we feel that Pierre is a bit of a teacher.
10:20In any case, his students like him a lot.
10:22I would just like to say something.
10:24I am the only singer here who has never sung anything worse than Noé.
10:28It's an adventure that takes on terrible proportions.
10:33We first released the best of, which was a hit.
10:39No matter what happens in my life, I believe that life is full of teeth.
10:43I am alive.
10:45And I say shit to all those who think otherwise.
10:48Gribouille, what do you do in life?
10:51You see, I draw on the floor, on the walls.
10:53Don't you want to do something else?
10:55Yes, I would like to sing.
10:57Sing and make it your career?
10:59Yes, if possible.
11:02In our time, we do too many explanations and not enough action, I point out.
11:07So there are psychologists, for anything, there are comments.
11:11I even made a song, by the way.
11:14I've been on a lot of trips.
11:17I've done everything, it's true.
11:20I was taken for a boxer, for an alpinist, for whatever you want.
11:26These are children's dreams.
11:39What would you change if you had a magic wand?
11:42I can't tell you.
11:45You're really disgusting.
11:51It's my village, a neighborhood, and at the same time a republic,
11:55managed by a mayor, who is not even the president.
12:01I don't want a too complicated agreement, because...
12:04I don't know, no doubt.
12:07It has to be coherent, in fact.
12:09That each agreement is coherent.
12:11I wrote in the style of the actor.
12:16For example, I started with a sketch on the bourgeois of Calais.
12:21I believe that a man is a nomad, he is made to walk,
12:24to go to the other side of the hill.
12:26I'm talking about the man of evil.
12:28I really believe that.
12:30And I believe that, in essence, the woman stops him.
12:32Any person who makes an album with someone
12:37is a midwife or a midwife.
12:40The method at that time was to put a pencil in the mouth.
12:45You make more effort to articulate.
12:49It didn't work, it made me cry.
12:51I'd like to do a song of great social and political import.
12:55It goes like this.
13:00I think it's difficult.
13:03We always think about it, of course.
13:07How long are you going to do a field trip?
13:10Yes, I did one. I did a recital.
13:13Then I spent the last months of October in Paris at the cabaret.
13:17Dear friends, let me introduce myself.
13:19I am the installer ELM Leblanc.
13:22You recognized my voice? That's good.
13:26I've had it.
13:28I've almost tasted everything.
13:32I think for a very long time that I'm going to make a big hit.
13:37I don't intend to tell any kind of legend.
13:40I intend to try to live as best I can, as best as possible.
13:46150 years, the anniversary of the 150 years of the appearance
13:50and the trial of Fleur Dumas.
13:522007 was the right year.
13:54I've been here a long time.
13:56In the solitude of Brittany, among the old stones,
14:01there is always a whole people of Corrigan.
14:07I can't say that I think I am,
14:11but I had to accept this judgment.
14:16At the time, we sang songs like Offray, Grimolite, etc.
14:20Jean-Louis had fallen into the Breton folk.
14:25I'm writing for my musical committee.
14:29It takes me a lot of time.
14:32It's very annoying because it's a big thing.
14:35I think that nudity is really a cyclical phenomenon.
14:41I think it comes, it gets...
14:44I don't know. All I do is play it.
14:47I'm American, so I play it.
14:49I used to sing it in school.
14:51It's a flashback, you know.
14:53I don't know about it.
14:55I made a solid base.
14:57I realize that I don't spend enough time at home.
15:00It's sad, but it's also very pleasant
15:04to come to Paris and be 20 minutes away from the stars.
15:08I give opinions like everyone else, of course,
15:11but when it comes to compositions by Lionel, Richard or Serge,
15:17I think it's up to them to decide in the end.
15:21Because I can change musicians whenever I like.
15:25And it tends to get into a format, you know.
15:28Because we were together much longer than the public knew us.
15:31It wasn't just from 1964.
15:33I was abandoned by my father when I was 7 or 8 months old.
15:40He left one day.
15:42While my mother was working,
15:45she was a star model at L'Envin.
15:48I kept extraordinary memories of La Guyane
15:53because I was born in the heart of La Guyane.
15:57I never offer people my personal taste,
16:01what I want to do, what I enjoy doing.
16:04I don't know how to sing a song if I don't fall in love with it.
16:18It's such an emotional song.
16:20I was told, where is the pool in the shape of a guitar?
16:24But I said, there is no pool in the shape of a guitar.
16:27And I was very surprised by his modesty.
16:30It was someone else who dictated that to me, you know.
16:35We are the intermediaries, you know, Mr. Pivot.
16:39There is no one, no one exists.
16:42I am like that because, you never know.
16:45One thing I would have liked to draw attention to, if you allow me.
16:49Really, I have no bitterness, I am sad, of course.
16:53I have a heartache, of course.
16:55But you know, do we have the right to trounce someone because they don't know?
17:02Well, you have made an extraordinary success
17:06because you have answered six questions on your own.
17:11I believe that in the career of an artist, you need everything.
17:14One scandal and the others, thank God.
17:17But the other day, a newspaper director called me to ask me,
17:21how long ago did we not give the news?
17:23You see, they stigmatized the gypsies.
17:25There were even deputies to say, yes, we like them.
17:28How do they pay for their cars?
17:30I think they only did that, to try to find heads of Turks.
17:34When I saw Brel, I was in admiration in front of him.
17:38But it took me so by the guts.
17:40It was overwhelming.
17:43It's an extraordinary job.
17:45First of all, it's my personal opinion,
17:49it's a lazy job, it's an extraordinary job.
17:52We have nothing to do.
17:54You, who were born in Turkey, from a Greek mother,
18:00how did you manage not to speak those two languages?
18:05My first idea was to be Carmelite.
18:08You see, one thing can lead to another, which has nothing to do with it.
18:14I started by...
18:16Yesterday, I had two more friends.
18:19It was my biggest success.
18:21It was Easter.
18:23Did you know Lady Michelle?
18:25In any case, we have what we call the Belgitude,
18:28that is to say, we have this particular fiber.
18:31I think we both love our country.
18:33We are very attached to it.
18:35One of the first women I loved,
18:38who was at that time excessively attractive,
18:40but who was also quite...
18:43quite perverse,
18:45because she had taught me, first of all,
18:48to take ether.
18:50Of course, why not?
18:52If you're going to be a pedophile,
18:54if you're going to be Jack the Ripper,
18:56if you're going to be a murderer,
18:58it's not a good idea.
19:00That I'm not.
19:02There is a kind of aura around the words
19:05symphony, opera,
19:07all the words that have been used for classical music.
19:13Muriel Montendon is a girl from Auberson.
19:16We've always known each other,
19:19but we got in touch not long ago
19:22because she does an extraordinary job,
19:24in my opinion, in archaeology.
19:27You have to have an unwavering faith,
19:30which is not my case.
19:32Not that I doubt the existence of God.
19:34I am absolutely certain of the existence of God,
19:36more than anything else.
19:39I sang in Tehran.
19:41Sylvie Vartan and Carlos were in the same program.
19:44Sylvie asked me why I didn't come back
19:48to try my luck in Paris.
19:51It's wonderful.
19:53Yes.
19:55Well, since we have a nice little party,
19:58in the case of your artists.
20:03Of all the songs you wrote for Elvis,
20:06for Andy Williams, for Janis Joplin...
20:08It's hard because for Elvis I wrote 23,
20:10so if I started doing them...
20:1223 songs for Elvis?
20:14Yes, for the King, for Elvis.
20:16I found a professor who had initiated me
20:19to poetry and to the work of Lorca.
20:22I found her not long ago.
20:24She came to a concert.
20:26It's Mrs. Sayar.
20:28I find it hard to take seriously
20:30what concerns me and the rest.
20:32We live in a world
20:34so full of incoherence.
20:37In fact, it's Jean-Jacques Pascal.
20:40In fact, no.
20:42No, no, I'm wrong myself.
20:44Okay.
20:46Because of my mother who is Corsican.
20:48I know this little game by heart.
20:50I've known it for a long time.
20:52It's television, it's good, it's fun too.
20:54But when I'm at home,
20:56I do that a little bit,
20:58but it tires me a little.
21:00I came to the Tour de Champs
21:02by passing through my house,
21:04my restaurant, cabaret, as you say.
21:06Because I started singing there.
21:08And then one day a musical director came.
21:10That is to say,
21:12what surprised me a lot
21:14was that before I lived in Spain,
21:16I lived in London.
21:18I saw posters in my neighborhood
21:20where there was Boney M
21:22passing through a disco.
21:24I love women.
21:26I love life.
21:28And there is also
21:30a line of life,
21:32a conduit to keep in life.
21:34You can't always be at the party.
21:36From time to time,
21:38you have to know how to slide
21:40to get better.
21:42That's what I did,
21:44when I was very, very young.
21:46I came here because
21:48the water always attracted children.
21:50So I, like all the young people
21:52in the village,
21:54all the kids in the village,
21:56we found ourselves there.
21:58Yes, and then this suspense
22:00that goes all the way to the end of the play.
22:02We don't know what these two characters are doing,
22:04what they're doing there.
22:06Everything happens
22:08at the London International Airport.
22:10So far, yes.
22:12It may have changed with age
22:14and with unemployment.
22:16I made an instrumental music
22:18for a film
22:20and it worked.
22:22It was called OK Chicago in 1973.
22:24It was a car race
22:26with machine guns.
22:28I'm here,
22:30and you already have a great result.
22:32But it's not how you are,
22:34it's how you feel more than anything else,
22:36not how you feel physically.
22:38Well, there's a few things
22:40I wanted to get out of my system,
22:42mainly the Crystal Ball project
22:44which was...
23:15I was not in the building, of course.
23:17Do you realize the change I had?
23:19I admit it's a change.
23:21Yes, so I left.
23:24When I came back to France in 1981,
23:26because I was called,
23:28they told me,
23:30you have to come back, it's starting again.
23:32So I thought the least I could do
23:34was to go out a quarter of the way
23:36and say, hello, this is me,
23:38this is what I did.
23:40Yes, that is to say,
23:42this song,
23:45I started in 58,
23:49and I started in a musical comedy.
23:52It was the first Israeli musical comedy.
23:56Because I think that in the job I do,
23:58the press is of great importance.
24:01Well, a certain press,
24:03there are several press, of course.
24:05I wrote that once,
24:07better to think of nothing
24:09than not to think at all,
24:11nothing is already a lot.
24:12Nothing is much better,
24:14nothing is much better than everything.
24:16I still often think of my son,
24:20by force of nature.
24:23I don't know why he disappeared
24:25so suddenly.
24:31When I write,
24:33I try to duplicate myself as a reader.
24:35I want to know
24:37if I'm not going to get bored.
24:39I don't feel like I'm famous.
24:41People imagine that I'm famous.
24:43It's a shame, if you will.
24:45But inside, nothing has changed.
24:47I don't feel overwhelmed,
24:49but a little annoyed.
24:51These are the disadvantages of the job,
24:53if you will.
24:55I think the hardest part
24:57was the times afterwards,
24:59because the first time I was very scared,
25:01but I was unconscious,
25:03but I didn't know what to do.
25:05I didn't know what to do.
25:06I didn't know what to do,
25:08but I was unconscious.
25:10But now I'm even more scared
25:12when I think of the first day
25:14I went on a stage.
25:16No, I don't think so.
25:18I'm stunned, yes.
25:20Maybe I don't have the memory of names
25:22or things like that,
25:24or maybe the memory of faces,
25:26which is why maybe
25:28people can find me pathetic.
25:30It's that it was ugly to me
25:32and the people found it out.
25:34How can I explain that to you?
25:37That's when Vincenzo Scottu
25:39found a good tool in me,
25:41because he had already
25:43made thousands of successes.
25:45He had made successes
25:47for Maurice Chevalier,
25:49for Josephine Becker.
25:51We worked a lot,
25:53but it's true that we are still surprised,
25:55because really,
25:57it's going pretty well.
25:59We had already done a little tour last year.
26:01Well done,
26:03because as I said,
26:04it's the most
26:06simple thing
26:08and forced.
26:11Twenty-four years later,
26:13the trick will come back.
26:15And boom!
26:20Crack is cheap.
26:22I make too much money
26:24to ever sell crack.
26:26Let's get that straight, OK?
26:28We don't do crack.
26:30The seats were very pretty.
26:31There was a room with a rail in the middle,
26:33like that,
26:35and then,
26:37I don't know,
26:39there was so much inside,
26:41so many standards,
26:43that I found it very beautiful.
26:45They left their mark in our hearts,
26:47these singers who left too early.
26:49Through their voices,
26:51they were able to capture emotions
26:53that we sometimes find difficult to name.
26:55Their melodies continue to float in the air
26:57like immortal echoes of their passage.
26:59When their songs resonate,
27:01their art transcends time.
27:03They never really left,
27:05because in every note,
27:07in every word,
27:09they live in us.
27:11What they gave to the world
27:13is a timeless heritage,
27:15a light in our memories.