Initially, Michel Berger did not want France Gall Gala

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Michel Berger has taken time to accept to write for France Gall. At the time of their meeting, the composer wanted to sing his own titles. He was eventually persuaded, in particular thanks to the complicity was evident between the two artists.

They form one of the couples most memorable of the French variety. Difficult, indeed, to imagine France Gall without Michel Berger, and vice versa. However, the duo could never bind because in the beginning, the composer did not want to be the icon of years yéyé or his image which was already beginning to fall out of fashion. When he meets the one who will become his muse, the author of All for music wants to sing his own songs. “After the departure of Véronique [Sanson], he was looking for anything but a performer. He wanted to sing his lyrics, is reminded of France Gall in an interview given to Paris Match in 2015. He had given a ‘personal Message’ to Françoise Hardy, but it was Françoise ! He has never been able to refuse, as for Johnny, or Michel Sardou, with whom it was a question of a disc together before his death”, described the singer.

And then to entrust her memories of their encounter : “When I landed, it was not his thing ! This is my producer Bertrand de Labbey, who suggested him the idea at the end of six months. It was such a chemistry between us… And Michel has offered me ‘The love declaration’, that he had written to him. We were in love, so we could sing the one and the other. What carried us during those eighteen years, it is our complicity extraordinary. “A testimony is very touching.

The sudden death of Michel Berger a heart attack in 1992, has made a final point well tragic duo. France Gall was joined Sunday, January 7, at the age of 70 years, following a long illness.

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