Daft Punk is over. Monday February 22, 2021, the French announced to their fans around the world, via a video posted on YouTube, that they separated, after 28 years of collaboration. News confirmed by their press officer atAFP, which left no one indifferent. On the night of the announcement, the show crew C to you led by Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine has decided to pay tribute to the famous duo formed by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo who has just bowed out. The opportunity to unveil rare images from an old interview broadcast in It's not 8 p.m. on Canal + and dating from April 20, 1996. In this interview, the two musicians appear without their famous headphones.
"Daft Punk, the 'crazy punk', the new darlings of England, come from France and break the house (…) Signed on a small independent Scottish label, their first singles were acclaimed by international critics and have been described as 'new wave of the new wave' (or "nouvelle vague de la nouvelle vague" in French, editor's note. ) by an overexcited English press ", explains the voiceover. "We have received faxes from Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Japan, New York … when we sold 15,000 records. It's a lot of fun and it really shows that there are both audiences and people who are interested in this music all over the world ", they explain in these archive images.
Patrick Cohen's reaction
In 2013, columnist Patrick Cohen had the privilege of interacting with them without their masks in an interview. "By discovering them, I would not have recognized them", he assured host Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. Still blown away by this experience, the columnist, who joined the show in 2011, recalled on set: "Suddenly you give voice to superstars whose faces we do not know … It was quite a disturbing experience, but I remember a pretty nice exchange ", he assured, laughing.
? The beginnings of #DaftPunk, by @CachinOlivier and… #PatrickCohen !# You pic.twitter.com/mZ5zcFjY47
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