Patrick Bruel is currently continuing his major French tour. On the program? The songs from his latest album “Again Once Again”, and the hits that have rocked generations. And it’s not just those from “Bruelmania”, like “So look”, “Break the voice”, “Who has the right” or “Place des grands hommes”! “Au café des délices” is also one of the highlights of his concerts, transporting spectators to Tunis in an oriental atmosphere. This title, which helped relaunch the career of Patrick Bruel is at the heart of the new episode of the Purecharts “Face A” podcast. After the immense tidal wave of “Pars voir”, which sold more than 3 million copies in France, the singer published his third album “Bruel” in 1995. There are a lot of people who say, “Bruel, it’s over.” It was complicated after a huge success. Of course we only sold 1.2 million albums after having sold 3 million, so for some it was a failure. I can’t find it, and then we did a tour which was sold out everywhere » remembers Patrick Bruel at our microphone.
“Instant craze”
Thus, the artist took a long break between 1995 and 1999, where he took a step back and produced huge hits for others including “Tic, tic tac” by Carrapicho or “Pata Pata” by Coumba Gawlo. He owes his return to the forefront to Johnny Hallyday. During his legendary concert at the Stade de France in 1998, he invited her on stage to sing “And then I know”: “ He reached out to me at the Stade de France. He showed me that 80,000 people were happy to see me, that the entire profession saluted my performance and that all the media were there to welcome that I was there “. This lovely plebiscite motivates Patrick Bruel to finish and release, in October 1999, his new album “Juste avant”. This one is already enjoying enormous success with the titles “J’te lieais” and “Pour la vie” but it is truly “Au café des délices” which will leave its mark. This nostalgic title, which evokes a café in Tunis and life in Tunisia, was born in 1997 during the filming of the clip “Baïla baïla Conmigo” for Domino, based on an idea from Felix Gray: “ I am at Club Med in Djerba. In the evening, I pick up the guitar, I do a little mini-concert and I sing the song. And there, I see something crazy happening: it’s as if it were an already known song, there’s a kind of instantaneous craze ».
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“We are comfortable with success”
Thus, “Au café des délices” was released as a single just in time to become one of the hits of summer 2000. It reached 13th place in the charts, sold more than 100,000 copies, and boosted the success of the album. “Just before”: “ When “Au café des délices” was released, the album had already reached 1.5 or 1.6 million sales. “I would lie to you” was released, the album exploded straight away, then there was “Pour la vie” which confirmed it and “Au café des délices” behind it (…) We are comfortable with success and we are happy that this song has taken on a destiny that was not planned. But it was thanks to the success of the other 2 songs that this one was released. “. Enough to consolidate the popularity of Patrick Bruel, which has never been denied since.
