Téléphone
| Téléphone | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1976 |
| resolution | 1986 |
| Website | www.telephonelegroupe.com |
| Founding members | |
| Jean-Louis Aubert | |
| Louis Bertignac | |
| Richard Kolinka | |
| Corine Marienneau | |
| Last occupation | |
singing |
Jean-Louis Aubert |
guitar |
Louis Bertignac |
Drums |
Richard Kolinka |
bass |
Corine Marienneau |
Téléphone was a French rock music group from the late 1970s and 1980s. Téléphone combined “unadulterated” rock with elements from punk / new wave and is considered one of the most important French rock formations of the (European) student movement.
history
The musical forerunners of Téléphone are "Sémolina", when the befriended students Jean-Louis Aubert (vocals / guitar), Daniel Roux (bass) and drummer Richard Kolinka met in 1975 and in mid-1976 Sémolina's only single "Et J'y Vais Déjà" , published. Musically they went their own way shortly afterwards, but Aubert and Kolinka continued to have isolated live performances in Paris.
Téléphone was officially founded on November 12th, 1976 by Jean-Louis Aubert , Louis Bertignac , Richard Kolinka and Corine Marienneau in the "Center Américain de Paris", Boulevard Raspail in Paris . Along with “Bijou”, “ Trust ”, “Trans Europe Express” and “Starshooter”, they were one of the few French groups that played “hard, pure rock” at the end of the 1970s.
After the first concerts, the successful single “Hygiaphone” from their first album “Téléphone (Anna)” followed in 1977, which they promoted exclusively through their concerts. The album was recorded within 17 days, released on November 25, 1977 and reached number 1 in the French charts in February 1978.
The final breakthrough came in 1979 with “Crache ton venin”, their second platinum studio album: the single “La Bombe Humaine” reached number 1 in the French charts from the start and was in the “Top 50” for 53 weeks.
Téléphone became one of the best-known and most successful rock formations from France, playing in front of an increasingly large audience and owing their popularity beyond the borders of France to numerous concerts.
In the spring of 1979 alone, Téléphone had 60 live performances, their largest in front of 100,000 listeners in September 1979, with a provocative start directed against the then conservative French government.
The documentary "Téléphone Public" of these eventful months by Jean-Marie Périer was first presented on the occasion of the opening of the " Festival de Cannes " on June 13, 1980.
“Au cœur de la nuit”, their third album, was released in 1980, again with extensive live performances. International popularity was achieved in 1982 with "Dure Limite", and Téléphone played as the opening act for the Rolling Stones in Paris and followed them to the USA , Québec and Japan .
In 1984 they released their fifth studio album, which their fans had to wait two years for: “Un autre Monde”.
In 1985 new studio recordings followed, but due to increasing tensions within the band, they no longer led to a new studio album, and the band members increasingly devoted themselves to their own projects.
Corine Marienneau and Louis Bertignac took part in the musical production of Luc Besson's modern “rock opera” “ Subway ”.
On March 24, 1986, the band management announced that Téléphone would take a year off, supplemented with a statement from Virgin: “ En aucun cas ce congé de 12 mois ne signifie la separation du groupe. »(In no case does this twelve-month vacation mean the separation of the group.) And the final“ end ”on April 21, 1986.
In 1994 a single concert followed in the Paris theater Bataclan , in 2005 Aubert and Bertignac played a few songs together at the Paris "Olympia", and on the occasion of a joint appearance on December 2, 2006 by Jean-Louis Aubert, Louis Bertignac and Richard Kolinka on " France 2 " rumors of a possible reunion revived.
Discography
Studio albums
- 1977: Téléphone (Anna) , official 1st album (producer: Mike Thorne - EMI Music France)
- 1979: Crache ton venin (Producer: Martin Rushent - EMI Music France)
- 1980: Au coeur de la Nuit (Producer: Martin Rushent - EMI Music France)
- 1982: Dure Limite (Producer: Bob Ezrin - Virgin Records)
- 1984: Un autre Monde (Producer: Glyn Johns - Virgin Records)
Compilations & live albums
(excerpts, excluding country-specific publications)
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 FR
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| 2000 | En concert |
FR52 (6 weeks) FR |
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| 2006 | Illimité |
FR175  (2 weeks)FR |
Chart entry in FR only in 2012
|
| 2011 | Le live |
FR133 (5 weeks) FR |
|
| 2015 | Au cœur de Téléphone |
FR11 (36 weeks)FR |
More compilations & live albums
- 1984: Le meilleur (EMI)
- 1985: Crache ton venin / Argent trop cher (EMI)
- 1985: Disque d'or / pochette 4 faces (EMI)
- 1985: Top 16 (EMI)
- 1986: Téléphone 2 disques (EMI)
- 1986: Le Live (Virgin Records)
- 2000: Paris' 81 (EMI Music France)
- 2003: Platinum Collection (3 CDs, EMI Music France)
- 2005: selamanya
- 2005: Rappels
- 2006: L 'Integrale Studio (EMI)
- 2007: Best of Telephone
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
|
FR
|
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| 1982 | Ça (C'est vraiment toi) Dure Limite |
FR133 (2 weeks) FR |
Chart entry in FR only in 2012
|
| 1984 | Un autre monde Un autre monde |
FR5  (25 weeks)FR |
|
| 1985 | Le jour s'est levé |
FR4th (19 weeks)FR |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More singles
- 1978: Anna
- 1978: Métro (c'est trop)
- 1979: La Bombe humaine
- 1979: Un peu de ton amour
- 1980: J'sais pas quoi faire
- 1980: Argent trop cher
- 1982: Cendrillon
- 1982: Jour contre jour
- 1984: Oublie ça
- 1985: New York avec toi
Video albums & film
- 1980: Téléphone Public ( Jean-Marie Périer ), first presented on the occasion of the opening of the “Festival de Cannes” on June 13, 1980
- 2004: Téléphone '1976-86' (double DVD), documentation produced by “ Canal Plus ” and François Philippe Maneuvre
Awards for music sales
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| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
 platinum
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Sales | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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France (SNEP)
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silver1
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9 × gold9
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8 × platinum8th
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3,565,000 | infodisc.fr snepmusique.com |
| All in all |
silver1
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9 × gold9
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8 × platinum8th
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Web links
- Official website (French)
- Téléphone on Last.fm