Alexis Patri 4:00 p.m., February 27, 2022
The singer-songwriter Gérard Lenorman is the guest on Sunday of Didier Barbelivien on Europe 1 in the program "Tell me what you sing".
The artist looks back on the beginnings of the group Indochine, for whom his label produced three albums.
A fact on which he had until then remained very discreet.
INTERVIEW
Gérard Lenorman and Indochina.
The cocktail is unexpected to say the least.
The singer of
La ballade des gens vivants
and the French band that introduced new wave sounds to the general public in the early 1980s. Yet it was during this period that the two collaborated.
The first three Indochine albums were indeed released on the Clémence Mélody label, created by Gérard Lenorman, as explained this last Sunday on Didier Barbelivien's program
Tell me what you sing.
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It is initially without saying anything about this collaboration that Gérard Lenorman chooses to pass in the emission the title
L'Aventurier
, first tube of Indochina.
Until he is reminded that he is no stranger to this success.
And that, at the time, no one knew.
"I didn't say anything," confirms the singer-songwriter.
"I said yes that I saw and heard the titles. And then I didn't care."
"Indochine must have thought that I was completely ignoring them"
It was far from being disinterested in the music of the young group that the producer stayed behind.
But more out of modesty.
"I never wanted to infiltrate the work of people who weren't of my generation or who weren't into my personal music," he explains.
"I would never have been able to write
L'Aventurier
. So much the better."
Gérard Lenorman does not regret this past discretion, quite the contrary.
"Of course, I'm very proud of that, because I didn't do anything to embarrass them, to embarrass them," he says.
"The band members must have thought I was completely ignoring them! Which isn't true at all. But they may have believed it."
Even after the end of their collaboration and the decades of success of Indochine, Gérard Lenorman never laughed at what remains a point of pride for him.
"It's the first time it's escaped me," he says.