So different, but so complementary. How not to mention the name of Jean-Jacques Goldman when you say that of Michael Jones. While the first hates the spotlight, the second leads his artist’s life with simplicity and an unwavered availability in a sort of heating tower before a last singing lap. At least in this fairly restrictive group of group which crisscrosses all of France and which will pass through Mondorf on November 22.
“It is not a farewell tour because I am one of those who cannot say goodbye. I can see myself continuing with friends in more confidential rooms. In acoustics, “confides the first guest of the year of stars & stories, the concept that bits organized by the Casino 2000 team. Where the Welsh singer who lives in Lyon had already come … without remembering it. “I just learned. It’s too close to the border. I did not realize that I was changing countries. It was in 2009. ” The tone is set.
Michael Jones had already performed at Mondorf-les-Bains Casino 2000 in 2009. © PHOTO: Casino 2000
The septuagenarian alert, accompanied in particular by his wife, split a few anecdotes throughout the 90 minutes of chat at the end of which he grabbed his guitar for some extracts. A mini session that he closed with the masterful Land of My Fathersthe Welsh national anthem he should have sing during the famous opening of the six -nations rugby tournament on January 31 at the Stade de France, “But France Télévisions obviously found that it was too complicated to connect a microphone on My guitar, “said the artist, not always stingy with small tackles as when he was reminded that he declared” that today, we see guys who sing with the auto-tune thoroughly on a Loop that an eight -year -old child could deal in three minutes. ”
“I was born in a golf course”
The organizers unrolled the soundtrack of the life of this Welshman born in Welshpool on January 28, 1952, a stone’s throw from the English border. We discover a photo of the coffee that the young man frequented, magnetized by juke box. We get to know his family. A dad, John, engaged in the allied army during the Second World War. A mother, Odette, Norman. “If there had not been the landing, I would not be there.” And a first crisp anecdote distilled in stride. “I was born in a golf course because there was a meter of snow and that we could not reach the hospital. My grandfather was Green Keeper. ”
I fell into it when I was little. My father played the violin, my piano aunt, my grandmother of the organ.
Michael Jones
Michael sings Christmas hymns in pubs as the Welsh tradition wants. He has a guitar, learned of his first agreements. “I fell in when I was little. My father played the violin, my piano aunt, my grandmother of the organ. ” The scraper will not leave him anymore. To the point of becoming an absolute fan. “I have between 50 and 60. This 1963 stratocaster is now worth between 20,000 and 60,000 euros. She stays at home… ”, he said, commenting on a photo.
Michael Jones met Jean-Jacques Goldman by responding to an ad in a magazine. © PHOTO: Casino 2000
A first group at 12 years old, notably with his brother Claude, a second then an arrival in France in 1971 when he did not speak French. “My grandmother raised me and she spoke to me in English and Welsh.” The young musician learns the language of Voltaire by reading Lucky Luke and Asterix. One day, he mixes with a local group, goes straight on tour with and takes a sabbatical year to indulge in his passion. “And it’s been 50 years that it has been going on.”
-The little announcement that changes everything
“I was subscribed to Melody Maker. I traveled the classified ads. In one of them, a group was looking for a guitarist who sang in English. It was to replace the guy next to me. ” Michael Jones then shows Jean-Jacques Goldman in a photo “who did not want to go on tour”. The group was called Taï Phong. The adventure stops quickly, but the connection with “JJG” is established. And it always lasts. “It was a musical thunderbolt. The first time we met, we made an ox together for two hours. ”
Jones joined Goldman on tour in 1983, because the singer had just turned all his musicians. Together, they just wrote I give you. A click. “We sold 1 and a half million copies. Before, it is impossible to have a credit at the bank. Afterwards, I had everything I wanted. “
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Like a lifeline made of good and bad moments, Michael Jones will salute the memory of his friend Daniel Balavoine, younger than him of a few days and with whom he had to celebrate his birthday in 1986. He will have a moved thought for Coluche, Who also asked in his presence a song from Jean-Jacques Goldman for Restos du Coeur. “When? For yesterday of course. ” Then the Enfoirés of course. “For a tour at the start. But we couldn’t stop there … “
Upset by Grégory Lemarchal
Thirty tours later, Michael Jones bowed out. “Because it’s very tiring.” Meanwhile, the Fredericks-Goldman-Jones trio had formed. “For the first Zenith of Jean-Jacques, a Gospel choir was present, but it was impossible to take everyone on the road. We had to find a singer and a name was unanimous when we did not know her: Carole Fredericks. ”
The scenic presence of the African-American singer and her complementarity with her two accomplices hits the bull’s eye. The two albums are experiencing resounding success. Until Carole’s disappearance. “I learned it while I was on the way to a rehearsal. This is the only time in my life when I got lost. ”
The Welsh singer will also evoke his participation in the Star Academy 4, “upset by the talent of Grégory Lemarchal”, his passion for aviation transmitted in particular to his daughter who is on -board commander at Air France and will lift a corner of the veil on his Next tour called “I’m going through my turn”. “I’m going to tell my life to music. It will start with the songs that made me want to make music. I still have sixty years of career behind me. There will be a great passage on ” Jjg ” since it is two thirds of my career. ” And the loop will be completed.
