The years pass but the Loubard Johnny Rockfort, chief of the black Star Star, zero January, wealthy businessman who has become president, Ziggy, homosexual record store, or Stella Spotlight, Sex-Symbol on the decline, do not take a wrinkle. Born in 1978, the characters in the Starmania musical, whose tubes have become so many essentials of popular culture, are reborn once again. the opera-rock is recreated , until the end of January, at the Seine Musicale de Boulogne-Billancourt, before a tour in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Le Monde mentions Starmania for the first time on November 6, 1978, “A double album imagined in the form of a musical” composed by Michel Berger on a booklet by Luc Plamondon. The tunes and words of When you arrive in town, the blues of the businessman, the world is Stone, or SOS of a terrene in distress are then still unknown to the French, but the journalist Claude Fléouter already seems under the spell of “music Sophisticated, full of vibrations and nonchalance of Michel Berger [who] gives Starmania as a kind of magic “. The album, with its ears, “demonstrates that, even in France today, varieties music can be quite different than aseptized and banal traditional product”.
seduced by the show
The musical was played in Paris in the spring of 1979, for four weeks of performances. Among the forty interpreters, few renowned artists, apart from Diane Dufresne, France Gall or Daniel Balavoine. Le Monde, in a report of April 13, 1979 still signed Claude Fléouter, seems to distance itself first with a spectacle which “is neither a musical nor an opera-rock, but a vague story sung, a fragile Comic strip on the city of tomorrow which is already that of today, on money, violence, dehumanization of metropolises, the need for space and sun “.
A few lines later, the journalist appears nevertheless seduced by the show: “Starmania Bouge and Swingue in a setting that skillfully uses – and totally – the huge set of the Palais des Congrès (…). Sensitivity and spontaneity, simplicity and subtlety, rigor and lyricism of songs and the fragile world that they express. “Starmania is” returned to the head of the public “before even appearing on stage; It has been several weeks since the radios, especially Europe 1, which co -produced the musical, pass the songs of the double album in loop. A large display campaign is carried out.
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