Pierre Delanoë
Pierre Delanoë (born December 16, 1918 in Paris ; † December 26, 2006 there ; actually Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon Leroyer ) was a French chanson writer .
Life
Delanoë studied law and, after graduating, began a career in administration, including as a tax inspector. When he met Gilbert Bécaud after the Second World War , he began to write chanson texts: For Bécaud he wrote Nathalie , Dimanche à Orly, Je t'appartiens and Le jour où la pluie viendra, among others . He was also responsible for the texts of other well-known performers; including Édith Piaf , Hugues Aufray ( Le rossignol anglais ) , Michel Fugain (Je n'aurai pas le temps) , Nicoletta , Nana Mouskouri , Michel Polnareff ( Le Bal des Laze ), Gérard Lenorman ( La Ballade des gens heureux ) , Joe Dassin (L'été indien, Les Champs-Élysées) , or the version by Mike Wilsh and Mike Deighan ( Aux Champs-Élysées , "Waterloo Road"), and Michel Sardou (Les vieux mariés) . André Claveau brought the Eurovision de la Chanson Grand Prix to France for the first time in 1958 with Delanoës Dors mon amour - a success that Patrick Juvet , who sang Je vais me marier, Marie penned by Delanoës, could not repeat at the 1973 Grand Prix . The texts of the French adaptations of the musicals Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar are also from Delanoë.
Between 1955 and 1960 Delanoë was program director of Europe 1 , later honorary president of the music rights collecting society SACEM . In this position, he made a name for himself with comments on rap music : It was "not music, but shouting, rumbling, [...] a form of expression for primitive people". In contrast, he compared his “serious job” with that of a “tailor for hunchbacks”, who had to adapt his ideas to the limited abilities of his customers - the interpreters.
Delanoë never made a secret of the fact that he was politically close to the Gaullists . At the same time, he turned against exclusion and racism at an early stage , which after the end of the Algerian War (1962) were directed against hundreds of thousands of people who fled the former colony to the French mainland ( L'Orange , sung by Bécaud in 1964).
In 2004 France honored him with the country's highest cultural award and awarded him the Commander's Cross des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .
He died of a heart attack at the age of 88 .
literature
- We love each other as long as we live . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 16, 2004; Portrait of Pierre Delanoë.
- "Décès du parolier Pierre Delanoë à l'âge de 88 ans" . In: Liberation , December 27, 2006 (French)
Web links
- "L'homme aux 500 tubes est décédé" . RSR.ch, December 27, 2006 (French)
- La dernière chanson de Pierre Delanoë. letemps.ch, December 27, 2006 (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Cees Hartog: "Chansons" for Classical Guitar. Alsbach - Educa, Huizen, p. 2 f.
- ↑ Radio telephone interview with Pierre Delanoë and the rapper Abd al Malik (MP3; 5.9 MB) France Inter, July 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delanoë, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leroyer, Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chanson writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2006 |
| Place of death | Paris |