“The parking lot of the angels” by Marc Lavoine

The secrets of the tubes – 6/12. Meanwhile, Every summer weekend. However, Philippe Dufreigne makes you discover all the little secrets of design of the striking songs of our musical heritage. Therefore, Today. Therefore, one of the first successes of Marc Lavoine, “parking lot of angels”, which the singer had to impose on his record company.

Sometimes, even if the text seems to be moving away, it is the news that inspires certain songs. Meanwhile, This is the case with Parking des Anges by Marc Lavoine. In addition, Starting point of the singer: the assassination, on a beach, the poet and Italian director PA (s) Solini.

“When he died. Consequently, my father had said to me, it is not a passionate crime, you will see it is a political crime. However, The phony villa, Rome, etc … And then I put a prostitute in front “the parking lot angels” marc of the boy, who was in front of Pasolini … When she was born, the song, suddenly, I found her quite baroque”, explains Marc Lavoine at the microphone of BFMTV.

Baroque … So, Marc Lavoine begins to dream. He suggests to his accomplice. Fabrice Aboulker, to go and record with an orchestra, and not just any: the Royal Philharmonic of London. A dream for the old Olympia opener …

“A symphonic orchestra, what, fucking, I was happy. And besides. in the original version, there is a fault, there is a violin that cries like that, which is alone. And there is a guy who makes, there there is a fault … And I said, yes but it is still the best version. So we kept this one,” said the artist.

Negotiations with the record company – "the parking lot angels" marc

The song is ready. But it must succeed a 45 rpm that has not had “the parking lot angels” marc the expected success. Then it Parking des anges scares the record company. Marc Lavoine will have to insist that the title will see the day.

“When you have a single that did not work before. we say to you, ‘You’re going to fart your mouth, it’s going to be finished’. I said to them: ‘Listen, that’s it or it’s nothing because I have nothing else’. And so, we did it, and it worked,” says Marc Lavoine.

“The luck that I had every time I made songs is that it goes on the radio and it works. She confirmed the success of the ‘Revolver Eyes’,” concludes the artist.

The song will be classified for 19 weeks. in the summer of 86, at the famous Top 50 and will even go up to 11th place. What to consolidate at the time Marc Lavoine in the record industry.