Sylvie celebrates Vartan’s farewell

In an ironic way, his colleague from the variety Michel Delpech (1946-2016) had announced the fatal deadline in 1975 in his ballad When I was a singer. He imagined himself in a deck chair at the age of 73, learning that “Mick Jagger died recently” and celebrating “Sylvie Vartan’s farewells”. The singer of the Rolling Stones, 81 spring, survives the author of this fiction. Delpech will therefore not have been able to attend “I draw my bow”, Sylvie Vartan’s final singing tour.

At 80 years old, the star of yéyé, this French-speaking movement imported from Anglo-Saxon pop culture from the 1960s, chose to stop at the scene of his triumphs, with three evenings at the Palais des sports at Porte de Versailles (renamed Dôme de Paris), in November 2024, and as much for the last three, at the Palais des Congrès at Porte Maillot, from January 24 to 26. Sylvie Vartan was the first singer to perform there, in 1975, shortly after its inauguration. The only thing missing from the final bouquet is the Olympia, which hosted her debut in 1961, and where she shared the stage with the Beatles in 1964, then with a certain Johnny Hallyday in 1967.

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