He cultivates his secret garden away from prying eyes and is careful that no one enters it without his permission. In an unambiguous press release, relayed on social networks by Sony Music France, Jean-Jacques Goldman has just given a warning free of charge, for the moment, to all authors or essayists who have written books about him: “I I have never “authorized” or agreed to any book or biography. And I do not have the power to ban them, even when the author, a former musician whom I have not seen for more than 40 years, claims to be my friend.
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By publishing these words, the singer, nicknamed “the French’s favorite personality” on numerous occasions – a recognition he rarely enjoys – is particularly targeting the second volume of a biography by Jean Bender entitled Il suffira d’un sign, in bookseller in 2024. The author claimed to Le Parisien that he had worked with the singer’s approval. And it is this supposed legitimacy which, visibly, greatly annoyed Jean-Jacques Goldman.
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When music is good by and by Jean-Jacques Goldman (1982)
This new update comes a few weeks after the few words confided to Le Canard Enchaîné by the author-performer of When the music is good. Goldman, this time, was targeting the biography-essay of the historian Ivan Jablonka published in Seuil. “I have never met this author, neither have my friends, and I am sad for all the people who are being duped into buying these books that talk about me,” he said.