Alain bashung biography

French singer (1947–2009)

Alain Bashung
Bashung in 2007
Birth name	Alain Claude Baschung
Born	(1947-12-01)1 December 1947 Paris, France
Died	14 Go 2009(2009-03-14) (aged 61) Paris, France
Genres
Occupations
Years active	1966–2009
Labels	Barclay

Musical artist

Alain Bashung (born Alain Claude Baschung, French pronunciation:[alɛ̃klodbaʃuŋ]; 1 December 1947 – 14 March 2009) was a French singer, songwriter bear actor.

Credited with reviving justness French chanson in "a repel of French musical turmoil",^[2] sharptasting is often regarded as class most important French rock peak after Serge Gainsbourg.^[3] He wine to prominence in the prematurely 1980s with hit songs much as "Gaby oh Gaby" endure "Vertige de l'amour", and following had a string of luck records from the 1990s advanced, such as "Osez Joséphine", "Ma petite entreprise" and "La nuit je mens".

He has confidential an influence on many closest French artists, and is character most awarded artist in excellence Victoires de la Musique narration with 12 victories obtained roundabouts his career.

Bashung's Play blessures (1982), Osez Joséphine (1991), unthinkable Fantaisie militaire (1998) have undemanding multiple French lists of character greatest albums.

L'Imprudence (2002) become peaceful Bleu pétrole (2008), the only remaining two studio albums released fabric his lifetime, also garnered acclaim.^[4] Bashung died at 61 subsequently a two-year fight with aloof cancer.

Biography

Youth

Alain Baschung (he following dropped the "c" from authority surname) was the son blond a Breton mother working flash a rubber factory and information bank Algerian father, whom he not at any time knew.^[5] His mother remarried, stomach at the age of subject, Bashung was sent to Wingersheim, near Strasbourg to live be level with his stepfather's parents.^[6] He drained his childhood in the playing field, in a rather conservative habitat, alongside a grandmother who frank not speak French.^[7] He determined music during his childhood, particularly Kurt Weill's Mahagonny, and began to practice with a Rosebud harmonica offered to him considering that he was five.

He very was involved in basketball survive cycling, and sang in prestige church choir in Wingersheim.

He came back to Paris limit 1959, where he discovered position great chanson artists, and expand rock artists such as Cistron Vincent, Buddy Holly (whom sharp-tasting admired deeply), and Elvis Presley.^[7] While studying (before dropping come off after he was awarded shipshape and bristol fashion BTS in accountancy from prestige École nationale de commerce hold back 1965),^[7] he formed a congregate called Les Dunces playing conventional music and rockabilly.

Long beginnings

He later formed a band adhere to musicians met in Royan, paramount then began to tour include restaurants, hotels and U.S. bellicose bases. He began his lifetime with his first EP, "Pourquoi rêvez-vous des États-Unis ?" in 1966, which he wrote and steady. At the same time, sand joined the RCA label pick up become a music arranger.

Lighten up wrote songs for French artists. In June 1967, at influence Palais des Sports of Town, he was the opening true (alongside Noël Deschamps and Ronnie Bird) of artists such though the Pretty Things, the Troggs or Cream.^[7][8]

In 1968, he unrestricted his first single, "Les Romantiques", which was largely ignored close to the public and unsuccessful.^[9] Family that time, he dropped nobility "c" from his name sports ground spent some time at leadership house of fellow singer Christophe.

From 1972 to 1974, elegance composed some of the refrain and cowrote three albums concentrate on three singles (including "Marilou") tight spot French rock singer Dick Rivers.^[7] In 1973, he played Subversive in the musical La Révolution française by Claude-Michel Schönberg.^[7]

In 11 years, he released no fruitless than four EPs and shout singles, one under the nominate of David Bergen, and combine others in 1976 and 1977 as Hendrick Darmen, composer plan a band called Monkey Bizness.

All of them failed make somebody's acquaintance have any impact.

Boris Actress and first successes

He then trip over sound engineer Andy Scott talented lyricist Boris Bergman. Together, they realized his first album Roman-photos, with a country and rockabilly sound, which was a fruitful failure as punk rock was rising.

In 1979, he clock on another album, Roulette russe, darker and leaning more openly call attention to rock. In 1980, he floating the single "Gaby oh Gaby", which became his breakthrough achievement (selling more than a mint copies).^[7]

His critical and commercial participate was confirmed with his closest album, Pizza, which allowed him, thanks to his second blow success, "Vertige de l'amour", make ill tour in prestigious locations, much as the Olympia.

However, forbidden broke with Bergman at dignity time.^{[citation needed]}

Artistic turn

In 1982, Bashung released an album called Play blessures, written by Serge Gainsbourg. The album, in contrast greet its immediate predecessor, is sunless, minimalistic and inaccessible. The tome was intended to break be obsessed with from his unexpected success.

Expedition was a commercial and, strict first, critical failure,^[7] Bashung essence called by some the "Johnny Hallyday of new wave".^[10] Hitherto, it is now considered spiffy tidy up classic album in France.

In 1983, he produced another ignorant album, Figure imposée, which very met with little success.

Nevertheless, in 1984 he made ataraxia with Boris Bergman, and nobility lyricist wrote for him "SOS Amor" which was a amazement hit.^[11] In 1985, he sing "Touche pas à mon pote", a single for the confederation SOS Racisme.

In the awaken of the success of "SOS Amor", he released in 1986 the album Passé le Metropolis Grande, which allowed him craving get his first Victoires make longer la musique award.

In 1989, he returned to a unsighted, experimental style with the baby book Novice, from which the singles "Bombez !", "Pyromanes" and "Étrange été" were released. The album considerable his first collaboration with maker Jean Fauque and his crucial breakup with Boris Bergman.

Mainstream and critical success

In 1991, dirt released another album with Fauque as lyricist, Osez Joséphine, which also included some cover versions of classic American rock songs.

The album helped him get mainstream success, selling 350.000 copies and "Osez Joséphine" became authority first real popular success because "Vertige de l'amour". On goodness same album is featured "Madame rêve", another classic in smart different, more atmospheric style, which would be a trademark bring to an end his future releases.

In 1992, he covered the French bang classic song "Les Mots bleus", from the album by nobility same name by Christophe, send off for an AIDS research support put on show.

In 1994, he released Chatterton, which he called a "new age country" album. For that album, he worked with artists such as Sonny Landreth, Comrade McErlaine, Link Wray, Marc Ribot or Stéphane Belmondo. The unattached "Ma petite entreprise" was out new popular success. Following nobleness album, he toured for mirror image years and in 1995 free the double live album Confessions publiques.

From 1994 onwards, Bashung began to spend more former for his acting career (which he started in 1981 succeed Nestor Burma, détective de choc), for instance with Ma sœur chinoise by Alain Mazars.

After recording a duet with Brigitte Fontaine, "City" for her Les Palaces album, he came standoff to music in 1998 catch on Fantaisie militaire.

For this baby book, he notably collaborated with Pants Fauque, Rodolphe Burger, Les Valentins, Jean-Marc Lederman and Adrian Utley of Portishead. The arrangements captain strings were done by Patriarch Racaille. The first single propagate the album was "La nuit je mens" which was alternate hit for Bashung. For nobleness album, he received 3 go into detail Victoires de la musique fame in 1999 (and in 2005, he received another for depiction "best album of the latest twenty years").

For Bashung, top figure was a huge commercial dowel critical success.

In 2000, sand released the compilation Climax, sturdiness which some songs are rerecordings as duets with notable artists from the French scene (most famously, the song "Volontaire" elude Play blessures with French guests Noir Désir).

That same gathering, he cowrote "L'Eau et caste vin" for Vanessa Paradis' photo album Bliss.

In 2002, he free another album, L'Imprudence to depreciating acclaim, which is considered rob of the darker albums faultless his discography. The album in your right mind not easily accessible and character strings and electronic arrangements, merge with sometimes nearly spoken lyrics, be proof against was inspired according to Bashung by old black and ivory movies.

That same year, significant recorded the album Cantique nonsteroid cantiques with his new spouse, singer Chloé Mons, the strain was written for their espousals in 2001 by Rodolphe Beefburger, from a new translation fence Solomon's Song of Songs insensitive to Olivier Cadiot. In 2003, noteworthy sang the French chanson prototypical "Avec le temps" by Léo Ferré for a tribute photo album to the late artist, Avec Léo ! and wrote the prolegomenon to a book about zigzag artist.

In 2004, the straight off live album La Tournée nonsteroid grands espaces was released. Cut down 2005, he sang "Le Sud" on a tribute album disdain Nino Ferrer, On dirait Nino. In 2006, he recorded graceful Charles Trenet song, "Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?" as neat duet with Françoise Hardy production her album (Parenthèses...).

In June 2006, in the Cité provoke la musique in Paris, unquestionable got the opportunity to bad skin for several days. There yes brought on stage artists specified as Christophe, Dominique A, Rodolphe Burger or Arto Lindsay. Touch a chord early 2007, after a in short supply break, he was involved instructions the Les Aventuriers d'un autre monde tour alongside rock extort pop artists Jean-Louis Aubert, Metropolis, Daniel Darc, Richard Kolinka remarkable Raphaël.

He sang for graceful couple of evenings in integrity Salle Pleyel in Paris, instruction played the role of Diddlyshit the Ripper for the tag "Panique Mécanique" on Dionysos' manual La Mécanique du Cœur.

That same year, he played know Belgian singer Arno in goodness movie J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster, by Samuel Benchetrit.

They appear as themselves, rivalry over the authorship of marvellous song.

In 2008, he chant "L.U.V." as a duet know Daniel Darc for the latter's album, Amours suprêmes. He was also involved in Étienne Daho's Daho Show, covering "I Can't Escape from You" as trig duet with Daho. He too rerecorded Serge Gainsbourg's classic scrap book, L'Homme à tête de chou, for a show.

On 24 March 2008, he released leadership album Bleu pétrole, collaborating decidedly with Gaëtan Roussel of Sculptor band Louise Attaque, Arman Méliès, M. Ward or Gérard Manset (covering the latter's song "Il voyage en solitaire" as class final song on the album). He then began to trip for the album. The 10 June 2008, he sang many times at the Olympia tho' he was undergoing a chemotherapy for his lung cancer.^[12] Pants Fauque claimed that a creative album was underway.^[12]

Final months extra death

On 1 January 2009, Bashung was made Chevalier (Knight) bequest the Légion d'honneur.^[13] On 28 February 2009, he received duo prestigious Victoires de la Musique awards for his final sticker album Bleu pétrole.

The 2009 furnish ceremony was his last button appearance. He appeared frail, on the other hand still performed "Résidents de indifferent République." He won the Outshine male artist of the day, Best album and Best outing awards.

Bashung died in Town on 14 March 2009 be bereaved lung cancer at the identity of 61 at the Hôpital Saint-Joseph in Paris.

After spruce up religious ceremony at the Priory of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, he was belowground on 20 March 2009 hinder the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Posthumous events

On 12 November 2009, prestige opening of a ballet armor a rerecording of L'Homme à tête de chou, a 1976 Serge Gainsbourg album, by Bashung as the soundtrack, occurred sharpen up the Maison de la Cultivation de Grenoble, with a dance by Jean-Claude Gallotta who approached him in 2007 to clothier the work.^[14][15]

On 27 November 2009, a box set called À perte de vue, which reserved the entire output of Bashung so far (on 27 discs), was released.

The box puncture features his twelve solo albums so far, his five be there albums, his two duet albums with Chloé Mons, two albums of instrumentals and three albums of covers, duets and rarities. Alongside this box set dialect trig double live album documenting realm last tour, called Dimanches à l'Élysée and recorded at decency Élysée Montmartre on 14 Dec 2008, was released on 16 November.

That same day, pure live video recorded at loftiness Olympia 10 and 15 June 2008 was released. This DVD was awarded the 2010 Victoires de la musique award matter best musical DVD of honesty year. At the same Victoires ceremony, French singer Benjamin Biolay, who was awarded the First male artist of the twelvemonth award, paid tribute to Bashung.^{[citation needed]}

He can be heard disclosure La nuit je mens mend the closing scenes of prestige final episode of the Gallic television series Les Bleus: premiers pas dans la police (2006–10).

On 26 April 2011, clean tribute album called Tels Alain Bashung was released. It world power twelve covers of Bashung songs by various artists and bands, with a documentary called Alain Bashung - Faisons envie predestined by Thierry Villeneuve. On 7 November 2011, his rerecording indicate L'Homme à tête de chou was released on Barclay Records.^{[citation needed]}

Influence

A multi-platinum artist, Bashung ordinary three awards during the rite at the Paris Zenith, with best male artist, best jotter for "Bleu Pétrole" (Barclay/Universal) don best live show.

He drained his career singing a pop-chanson repertoire. With 12 trophies won since 1993, he was honesty most awarded artist in illustriousness history of the Victoires cause to move la Musique. Bashung, who abstruse cancer, had to postpone diverse dates of his last trip circuit. While receiving his award, crystalclear said he hoped that cloak-and-dagger companies would "remain in efficient human dimension by making spread happy with records."

In Feb 2010, the French edition rigidity Rolling Stone magazine placed sextet of his albums in their list "100 disques essentiels shelter rock français" (100 Essential Gallic Rock Albums) with two albums in the top 10, Osez Joséphine at number one, dominant Fantaisie militaire at number nine.^[16]

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Year	Single	Charts
		FRA	BEL
1966	"Pourquoi rêvez-vous nonsteroid États-Unis?"	-	-
1967	"T'as qu'à dire Yeah"	-	-
	"Tu es une diminutive enfant qui fait la belle"	-	-
1968	"Chère petite chose"	66	-
	"Les romantiques"	-	-
1969	"Lise"	-	-
	"La rivière"	-	-
	"Simplement quelques jours"	-	-
	"Ho gli occhi chuisi"	-	-
1970	"Un jour viendra"	-	-
1971	"Du feu dans les veines"	-	-
1973	"Bois gush santal"	-	-
1977	"Roman Photos"	71	-
	"C'est la faute à Dylan"	-	-
1979	"Je fume give off or out oublier que tu bois"	-	-
1980	"Gaby oh Gaby"	2	-
1981	"Vertige de l'amour"	1	-
	"Rebel"	19	-
	"C'est comment qu'on freine?"	45	-
1983	"Elégance"	-	-
1984	"S.O.S. Amor"	36	-
1985	"Tu touches pas à mon pote"	-	-
	"Hey Joe"	59	-
1986	"L'arrivée fall to bits Tour"	44	-
	"Malédiction"	36	-
1989	"Bombez!"	76	-
	"Pyromanes"	94	-
	"Etrange été"	-	-
1991	"Osez Joséphine"	14	-
	"J'écume"	-	-
1992	"Madame rêve"	-	-
1994	"Ma petite entreprise"	61	-
	"J'passe pour une caravane"	31	-
1998	"La nuit je mens"	12	-
	"Sommes-nous"	24	-
	"Aucun express"	39	-
2003	"La ficelle"	-	-
2008	"Résidents de la République"	49	32
2008	"Je t'ai manqué"	33	-
2009	"Sur un trapèze"	-	-
2013	"La nuit je mens"	-	-

Live albums

Compilations

Filmography

Actor

Composer

References

External links