June 2017

Note : ¾ of the songs mentioned here are French songs. It could be an opportunity for you to discover them.

Birthdays and songs

Although "a mariole (clown) who is at least four years old" threatened to steal ber shovel and bucket from Lola (of whom French singer Renaud, his father was so "morgane" (crazy?), and althoug children's singer Dorothée sang "Sept ans et demie", it was necessary to wait for Alain Souchon, whose singing career began at ten years, in fact, with the song "J'ai dix ans" Then there is Canelle, who was only fifteen, in a song of mine; In the USA, Sweet little sixteen, the late Chuck Berry sings of the mythical age of 16 (and even more,Dr. Hook's wonderful Only Sixteen. At the age of eighteen, I could also have cited you Franco-Italian idol Dalida's "Il venait d'avoir dix-huit ans... , but I was just as likely to quote her at 36 as she was twice eighteen.
Twenty years have often inspired songwriters, such as "On n'a pas tous les jours vingt ans" or "Quand on aime on a toujours vingt ans" (quoted in my hit song Les Elucubrations). There is also « Vingt ans » by pierre Bachelet, where yours truly appears a second between De Gaulle and Malraux. Thirty years ? My father used to sing "Le danseur de Charleston" by Philippe Clay, who also became famous in the following decade with "If all forty years old had been quarantined."

50, 60 years ? I don't know songs celebrating these ages; But Paul McCartney's 64th birthday in "When I'm Sixty-Four"" is unforgettable.

And those who have read the first pages of Volume 2 of my autobiography, and who know that I am easily obsessed by a song, as the song that turns in the head obsessively, see me coming; The song that turns endlessly in my head, these days it is "Quand j'étais chanteur "When I was a singer" simply for this line "My poor Cecilia, I'm seventy-three", that his creator, friend Michel Delpech, could not sing himself because he has left us a few years early. Rest assured, it's the song that turns endlessly in my head, not the fact of being 73: last year a portrait of me in French daily Le Monde painted me as "a 72 year old kid .. eh Well this year on June 4, I'll be ... a 73 year old kid!




Maye you had a chance to see at the beginning of the month our nice little drone slip into my "office" in the atoll of Fakarava; Unfortunately, during my training - and it is not simple to pilot a drone, it works with adrenalin), the poor guy went to have a look at the bottom of a lagoon, where I recovered it, but now it must go to Holland for restoration; I still have the video that it had time to record, its last flight before the fall, a rotation exercise around Banana Split at anchor... which unfortunately, as said, ended badly.

I wish you to frolic all of June in Juniper


Antoine