This Tuesday, October 17, 2023, Eddy Mitchell spoke to BFMTV about the release of a book and a best of album. The opportunity for the artist to confirm that he will no longer return to the stage, unlike his friend Michel Sardou whose farewell tour he compares to a stroke of madness.
At 81, Eddy Mitchell said goodbye to the stage. A long chapter of life that the singer decided to turn definitively in 2011 during a concert tour aimed at saying goodbye to his fans. And if in 2014 and 2017, the interpreter of On the road to Memphis deviated from this decision during the event The old rascalsa series of concerts with Johnny Hallyday and Jacques Dutronc, Eddy Mitchell will no longer go on stage to sing in front of his audience.
The artist now prefers the world of cinema, which he considers more relaxing than that of the stage. A vision of things which seems to differ somewhat from that of his friend Michel Sardou, who has just kicked off a final concert tour entitled I remember a goodbye. At 76 years old, the man who had to put an end to his passion for horse racing due to the small fortune it represented, embarked on a tour of more than sixty dates organized in the four corners of France, but also in Switzerland and Quebec.
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Eddy Mitchell: “I don’t know what’s wrong with him”
Unfortunately for fans of the singer Connemara Lakes, two concerts have already had to be postponed due to Michel Sardou’s state of health. “Michel Sardou being suffering from angina, TS3 – Fimalac Entertainment is unfortunately forced to postpone the concerts of his tour ‘Je me meme d’un adieu’ scheduled for this Friday, October 6 in Le Mans (Antarès) and this Saturday, October 7 in Angers”, declared the production on Facebook.
Nothing to worry the public when the current season is conducive to the circulation of viruses. His friend, Eddy Mitchell, however, does not see things the same way. “I wish him good luck because he signed for 70 dates, something like that, something crazy…“, released the singer to our colleagues from BFMTV. And to add with concern: “It’s charming, but I don’t know what’s gotten into him! You have to hold on. And then you have to meet up at the hotel, with the gourmet salad.”. Behind his sense of humor, Eddy Mitchell seems to have definitively drawn a line under concerts.
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This does not prevent the artist from displaying the freedom of speech which has always characterized him and from gently tapping his colleague whose courage he salutes in undertaking such a project at 76 years old. A friendly tackle addressed to Michel Sardou which comes a few days after his frank declaration concerning the opening of the doors of the house in which Serge Gainsbourg lived. “Making a museum of something personal, I don’t like this kind of demonstration”he blurted.
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