INTERVIEW
Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Téléphone enjoyed rare success for a French rock band, both on the national scene and abroad. Jean-Louis Aubert, guitarist and singer, returned to this epic Sunday, in There is not only one life in life , on Europe 1. The occasion, in particular, to recount his meeting with Mick Jagger, who was playing the prophets of doom at the time.
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In 1976, Téléphone was born during a concert in front of 600 people at the American Center in Paris. Drummer Richard Kolinka and Jean-Louis Aubert call on guitarist Louis Bertignac. The latter requires the presence of his girlfriend, Corine Marienneau, to whom he had learned bass. A woman in a rock group is rare!
"No girl on the boat"
A few years later, Jean-Louis Aubert met the leader of the Stones, Mick Jagger. During a working session for Crache ton venom , Telephone's second album released in 1979, the Brit discovered with surprise the presence of Corine Marienneau in the studio. "Telephone's bass player is therefore a woman ... Along with the other members of the group, Ian Stewart and Keith Richards, he then predicts internal quarrels with the group.
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"It was a bit like the sailors, if they wanted to cross the Atlantic, they said: 'especially no girl on the boat'", laughs Jean-Louis Aubert who mocks the pseudo-virility and the ambient machismo of the time. "For a woman, it was really emblematic to be with a group of boys. It was a sign of equality and liberation, but it didn't have to be easy every day for Corinne."
And in fact, the relations between the musicians of Téléphone deteriorate, leading to the dissolution of the band. The group will have lived ten years and aligned the titles that have made all generations scream.