On April 16, 2020, singer Christophe left us, leaving behind an indelible mark on French song. Five years later, back on the story of two emblematic tubes of his career: Blue words et Little girl in the sun.
Projected on the front of the scene in the 1960s, following the success of the titles Aline et PuppetsChristophe experienced a period of decline in the early 1970s. In search of renewal, he then turned to a new record company, and begins to collaborate with a young lyricist named name Jean-Michel Jarre.
HAS The time, he just started his career. Its greatest successes are still to come, but the ingredients that will make the success ofOxygena few years later, are already there.
At the origins of the success of “blue words”: the Pink Floyd
The period is, moreover, conducive to inspiration. Whether it is the Pink Floyd or David Bowie, many singers are many to offer albums conceptsdeclining the same universe in several songs. Rather than working on isolated titles, Jean-Michel Jarre and Christophe do the same, and record a series of titles oscillating between rock and pop together.
This collaboration thus signs the return of Christophe under the spotlight, in particular thanks to titles such as The lost paradise et Senorita. But it’s with Blue wordstitle published a short time later on the album of the same name, that the machine gets carried away, to make this romantic song a real tube.
Christophe takes his revenge on “Aline” with “Little girl in the sun”
Back in the light, Christophe then meets Didier Barbelivienthen aged twenty years.
HAS this stage, the monster success of I’ll survive you et Do you come for the holidays? is still far away. He is a young beginner author, and has just signed his first songs for Gérard Lenorman.
However, despite his young age, Didier Barbelivien is not lacking in inspiration. Starting from the words of Alinesinging the despair of a man abandoned by the one he loves, the lyricist has the idea of avenge Christophe by writing the opposite. Thus, in Little girl in the sunit is no longer Christophe who undergoes the rupture: it is he who chooses to leave, once in the morning. A “Revenge Song” before the hour that makes a box among the record stores, as soon as it was released in 45 laps.
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