After looking into the destinies of Bob Marley and Daft Punk and investigating Bertrand Cantat, journalist Anne-Sophie Jahn delivers the romantic and fascinating account of the last months of the rocker who died in December 2017*. And paints, between shadow and light, the portrait of a man who remained prisoner of his childhood wounds.
How did you come up with the idea of devoting a work to the most famous French singer?
When I was a journalist at Le Point, I had the opportunity to interview him several times. I, who was not a fan, saw the evidence of his charisma the second he started talking to me. Even after his death, he was caricatured a lot even though he was someone who had read Shakespeare and Balzac. For a writer, he’s a golden character. No personality has been so unifying, capable of bringing together in his concerts a President of the Republic and a worker from the north of France, both knowing his songs by heart. As for her burial, apart from Édith Piaf, I do not know of any other national demonstration of this magnitude. I wanted to write a nuanced story, which would be neither cruel nor hagiographic.
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