Jean-Jacques Goldman: The Truth Behind the Unauthorized Biography

2023-10-05 18:38:00

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A right of reply to a very dry press release! This Thursday, October 5, Jean-Jacques Goldman, although always so discreet, is at the heart of the news: Jean Bender, a former friend that the singer knew as a teenager, explained in the weekend edition of Parisian wanting to release a second book around their shared youth, following the success of the first, released in 2021. More surprisingly, he explained that the singer of Like you had given him permission.

Except that according to Jean-Jacques Goldman, this is not the case… and not at all. “I have never authorized or agreed to any book or biography. And I don’t have the power to ban them, even when the author, an ex-musician whom I haven’t seen for over forty years, claims to be my friend“, explained the singer in a short press release sent by Sony, his record company.

A press release which seems to have disturbed Jean Bender, now aged 73, and who told our colleagues at Parisian that the artist was aware of everything. “I informed Jean-Jacques immediately following the article in Le Parisien Week-End, as I have always donehe explained. The book is finished, being proofread by my publisher. I told him that it would only talk regarding our old friendship and music, that I would send him extracts, the front cover… He didn’t answer me, but that’s normal. I’m informing him, that’s all.“

“Really weird”

And the author seems to have been touched by the dry press release from the artist, who retired in the 2000s, and who now lives in Marseille with his wife Nathalie and his three younger daughters Maya (19 years old), Kimi ( 18 years old) and Rose (15 years old). “This press release is really weird. I don’t pretend that I’m his best friend, but I’m his oldest friend, since we’ve known each other since high school in 1967. I haven’t seen him for regarding fifteen years, but we talk regularly through messages“, he was offended.

“For my first book, he was very nice, he encouraged me to do it and even wrote me a little note, which I put in the introduction“. A little word that the Parisian found : “No problem of course. Glad to see that this worrying period stimulates and inspires you. It is true that in light of what we are experiencing today, we look differently at these carefree and creative years.“

So, was Jean-Jacques Goldman fed up with the media coverage, he who was already the subject of a biography last August released by Ivan Jablonka and who had already seen Jean Bender talk regarding him on the tray of Do not touch My TV last week ? In any case, the message is clear: tranquility above all!

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