Many media personalities greeted Thursday the memory of the “Dandy Rock”, as it was nicknamed.
Le Monde with AFP
Alain MANEVAL, who was press attached by Iggy Pop, host of TV shows and Radio Cults or Head of Arte, died at the age of 69 in Fontaine-les-Coteaux (Loir-and -Cher) Suites of bone cancer, said Thursday, March 10 his family. Media Man, Pop Music Passor, Rock and Punk, Alain MANEVAL had mediated at a time his seropositivity, but was healed.
Born in Saint-Etienne, he was gone to 17 years old in Paris to try the acting profession. The chance of meetings leads him to be press attached in London of the Heartbreakers, American Punk Group. He was also in France that of Iggy Pop or Lou Reed. It will also slip into the free radios circuit in France – such, among others, the legendary carbon 14 – before accessing a larger hearing in the late 1970s with “Po-Go”, music show on Europe 1 than ‘He will animate in a punk spirit.
In “Arddube”, the emission of Thierry Ardisson, he had told to have been fired from Europe 1 after calling the Shell boycott (one of the advertisers of the station) as a result of the black tide triggered by the Shipwreck of Amoco Cadiz in 1978, of which he had witnessed on a weekend on a Breton Island.
“The love of radio and music”
The “dandy rock”, as it was nicknamed, then moves towards the TV, animating the musical emissions “megahertz” on TF1 and “Tam-tam” on TV6 (ancestor of M6) in the 1980s. Then It will become a director time of Arte Programs. It will also supervise Morocco the creation of the first toll television chain, 2m. In the 2000s, he repassied by the radio box on France Inter.
Many media personalities greeted his memory on Thursday. “If sad but I have everything left to us: freedom, passion (…) an attitude, the love of radio and music”, thus commented on the musical director of the radio antennas France France , Didier Varrod, on Twitter.
If sad but I have everything left to us: freedom, passion, obsessions, an attitude, am … https://t.co/gcgnbb4jb2