On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Serge Gainsbourg, Europe 1 is dedicating a special day to the author, composer and performer.
Dani, for whom he wrote "Like a boomerang", is the guest of "Musique!".
The singer tells the tumultuous story of this song, written in 1975, released in 2001 and a version of which remains secret.
INTERVIEW
26 years.
This is the time it took between the writing of the song
Comme un boomerang
by Serge Gainsbourg for Dani in 1975, and its release in 2001 in a version sung in duet with Etienne Daho.
The singer is the guest of
Musique
Tuesday
!
, within the framework of the special day Serge Gainsbourg of Europe 1, 30 years to the day after the death of the singer.
Dani returns to the crazy story of this song and explains where his version of
Comme un boomerang
duet Serge Gainsbourg is.
A version never released to date.
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Denied at Eurovision Song Contest
After being prevented from singing for Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, Dani accepted again the following year to represent France in the singing competition.
On one condition: "that I sing a song written by Serge Gainsbourg", she remembers today.
Serge Gainsbourg accepts.
He writes to her
Like a boomerang
.
“We recorded it in the studio, we did the models together,” Dani explains.
They come up with the title.
But the Antenne 2 channel, which broadcasts Eurovision in France, refuses this song, whose lyrics it considers too dark "and too rebellious", in the words of its interpreter.
Faced with this refusal, Dani decides not to represent France.
It's 1975,
Like a boomerang
is forgotten.
"This song sat on the shelves of the Vogue record company for years," says Dani.
Help from Etienne Daho
The song finally resurfaced in 2001. "Etienne Daho, to whom I gave all my models, found the song. He told me that I had to sing again and do this song", explains Dani.
That year released the famous version of
Comme un boomerang
in which Dani sang a duet with Etienne Daho.
A version of Gainsbourg alone was released in 2011, in a best-of album.
But another duet version of this song exists.
In 1975, during the first recordings, Dani and Serge Gainsbourg sang together.
This duo never came out, but it didn't disappear either.
"I think it's Etienne Daho who has it, because I always give him my cassettes" believes Dani, who does not seem particularly in a hurry for this unpublished version to be unveiled.
"These are the things of life," she comments.
It is therefore to Etienne Daho that the most assiduous fans of Serge Gainsbourg will have to turn to, if they want to see one day this new version of
Comme un boomerang
released on CD.