Eddy Mitchell doesn’t have his tongue in his pocket! The famous interpreter of On the Road to Memphis, Mint Color in Water, and The Last Session, who celebrated his 81st birthday last summer, spoke at length about his career during an interview in the Point columns. The opportunity for him to talk about his eternal friendship with his two friends from Vieilles Canailles, Johnny Hallyday and Jacques Dutronc. But he also does not hesitate to distribute a few tackles to his fellow musicians, both French and international: “The Stones are rusks, he asserts, sure of his judgment. Mick Jagger sings not great, it swings not”, he says first, before tackling the new generation!
Eddy Mitchell scathing with the new generation of singers!
Eddy Mitchell actually assures our colleagues that he does not listen to current music. The octogenarian “grimaces”, when we talk to him about Benjamin Biolay, even scratching the first album of the singer of Rose Kennedy: “With the violins? It’s ridiculous. I don’t like his string arrangements. And his songs don’t interest me, his Winter Garden for Salvador is Lucile by Michel Jonasz”, he asserts. If he doesn’t “care” about Etienne Daho, Eddy Mitchell, on the other hand, has things to say about his own duet with Juliette Armanet, not having been convinced due to “tone concerns”. The singer is also very critical of Vianney! “He’s the new Adamo, he has the look of the ideal son-in-law,” he says dryly. If he still agrees to surround himself with some of his comrades for his next album: “Good people compose for me: Souchon, Jonasz, Chamfort, Obispo”, he assures, noting that the presence of the latter at his side is mainly due to geographical proximity: “He’s my neighbor, he crosses the street, he comes to my house… Above all, he is malleable, he adapts”.
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Les confidences d’Eddy Mitchell sur Johnny Hallyday
Eddy Mitchell also takes advantage of the interview to confide in the way he lives since the disappearance of his friend Johnny Hallyday, six years ago already: “It’s a part of my life, I miss him, of course, but he wanted to. We followed the same path, but he went harder. Johnny drank to get drunk. Not me. And you have to avoid white alcohol, it destroys bones, Johnny had an operation “a hip at 40,” he lamented.
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