Since October 2022, France 2 has offered its viewers a program entitled “A Sunday in the countryside”. An event imagined and presented by Frédéric Lopez. On this occasion, the former presenter of “Rendez-vous en terre stranger” welcomes three guests in a country house. To get there, there is no other option than to borrow a boat and… row. A bucolic setting Or the personalities come, notably, indulge like never before. A “college” atmosphere which inevitably encourages confidences. Thus, this January 5, the three personalities received were: the YouTuber Major Movementthe athlete Manon Apithy-Brunet as well as the famous singer and composer Michel Fugain.
This one who spoke about his personal life but also returned to his 60-year career where he had the chance to meet a crazy success with tubes like Do like the bird, The party or even Attention ladies and gentlemen. However, his career has not always been rosy and was also full of disappointments. In the mid-1980s, the 82-year-old man hit a slump. This lasted five years. Years of questions, of doubt, “I have nothing, no plan“, he said. Indeed, the situation was very complicated: “I lived in a mill and it costs money. I tell myself that I will find myself with two suitcases and my children in front of the gate. We will have to leave the house“.
Luckily, at that time, the artist crossed paths with a certain Nicolas. So, he suggested that he do “evenings“. Obviously, being in trouble, Michel Fugain immediately accepted: “And there, begins an extraordinary period. I do all the weddings feuj (Jewish, editor’s note) from Paris. You make one and the people in the wedding were ordering me for theirs.”. If he was delighted to live this experiencehe does not forget those who made fun of his choicesnot prestigious“. Moreover, he keeps in mind the unpleasant comment from a famous singerif not THE best known.
Michel Fugain: the virulent attack of Johnny Hallyday
Happy as anything, the singer nevertheless concedes that at one point it was necessary “get serious again“in order to return to the forefront. Problem, as he tells it, “when you haven't made a record for five years, guys don't rush to take you“. It is then that Johnny Hallyday did not fail to make a very scathing remark about him when he was at the peak of his career. Michel Fugain says: “He said: 'Fugain, he is dead'. Asshole! I'll be dead when I have no more ears or hands“ he got carried away, very annoyed. What's more, it will bounce back very quickly.
By signing, in 1985, with the Tréma label and releasing the album Dreams and the windil returns to success and thanks, in particular, to its tube Live life. It is then that the wheel will eventually turn. Jean-Claude Camus, Johnny's producer, will come to see him on stage and, at the end, “he comes into the dressing room and he said to me: 'You don't have the place you should have. We're going to get it through shows'. And from there, it traced”. Without doubt the best response to the Rocker's unpleasant comment.
