2023-11-10 22:33:00
Coincidence or real provocation from a reactionary singer too happy to get back on stage? In any case, we had to dare to open and close the ball with “The” title which brings together all generations, and of which no one is unaware since the “Juliette Armanet” controversy last summer: “Les Lacs du Connemara. Just that ! So, even before he enters the stage, we have the feeling that the bet has been won: Michel Sardou, 76 years old, is still there. Under applause.
After the Nikaia Palace in Nice on Tuesday, Michel Sardou was a little at home at the Zénith in Toulon. Toulon, the city where his father Fernand lived and died in 1976. His father to whom he pays tribute by covering one of his most popular titles.
Majestic stage, light shows and giant screens, he is there, dressed in a black suit which contrasts with silver-gray hair, surrounded by around twenty musicians and singers) to savor the time of this singing tour.
It took him a few choruses to warm up his voice, clear but the artist is there for 2023. “I missed you”he lets out the first finished song and if the audience is to be believed, it’s mutual.
“Le Privilege”, “Le Bac G”, a medley from “J’accuse” to “Vieux mariages” via “Le France”, “En Chantant” some stage pranks with Pierre Billon, the titles follow one another without timeout. From songs that we invariably expect, to those that we don’t necessarily expect but it doesn’t matter: the setlist redefines the contours of the artist’s repertoire, it seduces in its majority, also challenges as many of the titles take us back to the news.
‘He was great’, ‘It was great’, ‘the best’… The comments at the end of this meeting were unanimous: ‘I remember a farewell’ marks the return to the stage of the last sacred monster of French song. And it was worth the wait.
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