The author and composer Michel Berger died at 44 years from a heart attack. He was the source of many successes for Françoise Hardy, France Gall or Johnny Hallyday. He is also the composer of “Starmania” a successful opera, carried by his friend, the famous Daniel Balavoine.
On stage, Michel Berger shares the show with his accomplice and wife France Gall. The lovers met in 1974, in the premises of the Radio Europe 1. The song interpreter “Wax doll, his doll of his” then shares his life with Julien Clerc, while the composer has just separated from Véronique Sanson, for whom he had composed “need of anyone”. With a love at first sight, one of the most iconic couples of French song was born. Michel begins to write their romance, France sings her, and the melodies become hits: “obviously”, “disconnect”, “the declaration of love”…
In 1980, on the front page of “South West”
Reproduction of the front page of “South West” of August 2, 1980.
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In the calendar
Saint-Julien, Born in La Mure (Isère), he founded an institute of the Blessed Sacrament which he will run until his death in 1868. The Julien are helpful et nice. Their color: red. Their figures: the 8th et the 9.
Dicton of the day: “August, it’s good everywhere”.
It happened on August 2
1589 Henri IV becomes the new king of France. 1990 Saddam Hussein Iraqi troops invade Kuwait. 1996 Michel Debré died at the age of 74. French Prime Minister of the Vᵉ Republic, he contributed in particular to writing the Constitution. 2002 Turkey abolishes the death penalty except in wartime. 2003 Beginning of an unprecedented heat wave in Europe.
2018 Apple becomes the first private enterprise in the world to take the course of $ 1000 billion on the stock market.
They were born on August 2
Isabel Allende, Chilean writer (1942). Muriel Robin, French actress and humorist (1955). Anne Lacaton, French architect, born in Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, in Dordogne (1955). Mary-Louise Parker, American actress (1964). Claire Pommet, “Apple”, singer and French songwriter (1996).