A casual artist with a sense of derision, our guest of the week is an instinctive autodidact. Actor, singer, lyricist: Eddy Mitchell is Déborah Grunwald's guest.
Back with his fortieth album, Friendsand its autobiography, Eddy Mitchell opens up and explores her memories during an interview with Déborah Grunwald.
So in full success with Black SocksEddy Mitchell leaves to do his military classes in Montlhéry. He will sing for the troops in full Algerian war and will witness the violence of the situation at the same time: “I saw death up close, but not in a military way. I saw it when I was sung, for the military, in Oran. I saw a black foot pursuing an Arab man with a slingshot and a stone at the end to smash his skull. And no one found anything to complain about. It makes a mark.”
His military obligations ended in 1962 and Eddy Mitchell went solo with mixed success for his first album: “I was afraid of failing in the late 60s, early 70s when I was recording things that were too complicated for me. It made me happy to sing complicated things but it didn't work. But then when you see the result, it's still complicated. We tell ourselves that we will wait to buy the car…”
In the rest of this episode:
- “There are a lot of prohibitions and that’s not going to change I think”
- “We live withdrawn into ourselves”
- “Grandpa, that’s a bit old!”
