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This Thursday evening, the M6 group channel offers a magazine led by Jérôme Anthony, retracing the singer’s route and fights. Relatives confide.
It all starts on July 25, 1985, the day when Renaud occurs in Moscow. After singing DeserterRussian spectators get up and go away. Back of the singer behind the scenes who sees it as a plot. After this episode, he sinks into alcohol.
It is the flayed man who is told in this documentary, In the name of the fathermarked by an intimate injury and the words of his parent towards him: ” The success of my son kills me. A cold and distant father who only transmits the passion for writing to him.
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The interpreter of Mistral winning et Concretewho celebrated his 73th birthday on May 11, is a skinned with a tender heart. This is the story of a man in love with Dominique, the woman of his life who leaves Gérard Lanvin for him. Without forgetting Lolita, his daughter, for whom he will write Morgane of youthe best -selling title in his repertoire.
Close to François Mitterrand
From May 68 to the attacks against Charlie Hebdo And the Bataclan, Renaud is also a committed man. With ideas leaning rather to the left, he has a deep admiration for François Mitterrand of which he was close. The two men had met during the inauguration of the Zenith in Paris on January 12, 1984. They were linked by the love of letters and France. And when the artist and musician arouses the anger and annoyance of the British Prime Minister of the time Margaret Thatcher with his songMiss Maggiethe government does not hold it against it. However, relations between the United Kingdom and France had been put to the test. Asked for this film, Jack Lang, Minister of Culture then, recalls.
The originality of this documentary lies in the testimony of relatives like David Séchan, the twin brother of Renaud, who is expressed in this magazine presented by Jérôme Anthony. And this is a first, the parents of Renaud, Olivier Séchan and Solange Mériaux, also share their feelings. Like Sotha, the ex-wife of Patrick Dewaere, friend of the artist and owner of the station of the station where he started. And Gauvain Sers, the artist who is present today as his heir in music.