“There are more than hits, but enough is enough, in what year did I love Georgia…” Michel Sardou, a few weeks before his big return to the stage in Rouen on October 3, takes out a song from the drawers nostalgic from 1992 co-written with his friend Didier Barbelivien (The River of Our Childhood) and composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre (Vladimir Ilitch, Jazz Singer, Muslims…).
These melancholic words, very much in the vein of the creator of Ten Years Earlier, are certainly intended as a tribute to the masterpiece Georgia on Mind immortalized in 1960 by “The Genius” Ray Charles. This nugget will be in the list of songs from the new albums Engagé and Intime, which will be released on September 22.
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This “novelty” unearthed some three decades later is the first arrow which announces the great return on stage of Michel Sardou in a few days in the Norman capital. Four years ago, he titled his tour “The Last Dance.
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On October 3 in Rouen, having now understood that a mountebank never really leaves his audience, he will begin a tour which he has named I remember a farewell. He will sing throughout France, from Lille to Toulouse via Dijon and Saint-Étienne, until March 16, 2024 when he will say a beautiful goodbye to his admirers in Paris. And that day, like in The Lakes of Connemara, madness will dance…
