After more than 55 years of career, Dick Rivers died in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. The rocker leaves behind thirty albums. An artist's life on which he confided in 2006 on Europe 1, in Regarde les hommes changer , with Frédéric Taddéï.
"I have more marked people by who I am, my look"
Sure of his aura, of his strengths, but also of his weaknesses. That's how Dick Rivers appeared during this long interview with Frédéric Taddéï. "I have plenty of gold records - three or four by decades - but I have more marked people by who I am, my look, my way of being, than by what I am on stage", said the artist. "I have never been a Mr. tube", even going so far as to say that we must still Nice Bay of Angels .
"I'm passionate about westerns first and foremost"
His look precisely, inimitable. The haircut of course, but also the eternal cowboy boots. "I'm passionate about westerns first and foremost," he told Europe 1, "I like the western look, movies that I was going to see as tiny: it was the American dream, the great outdoors."
In the manner of an Eddy Mitchell, Dick Rivers totally adhered to the American culture, to which he never ceased to identify. "I was bathed in a universe much more American than anglosaxon", recognized the singer. "When the Beatles arrived, I found that pop and I did not really admire these people," said Dick Rivers. Unlike other artists, like Elvis Presley for example. "It was God, he was untouchable," he said.