Back on the front of the stage to promote his new album, Michel Polnareff settles his accounts with Patrick Cohen on the set of C à vous. Explanations.
This Friday November 18, 2022, the C à vous à vous team received a very special guest on set, a French singing star exiled across the Atlantic for almost 50 years. Her name ? Michel Polnareff. After teasing “Ze retour” during a tour in 2006-2007, an event marked by the release of an unreleased single in stores (“Ophelia blatant from the beds“), the one who is nicknamed “the Admiral” had again taken refuge in his quarters with a Victory of Music and the Legion of Honor. Polnareff was not finished with his artistic projects. Between the publication of his autobiography titled Sperm and the organization of a unique sold-out concert at the Olympia, 2016 was a particularly busy year for the singer. This time it’s the right one, it seems. We had to wait until the end of 2022 to discover his new cake, Polnareff sung… where the star takes up his greatest hits on the piano, and hear about a new tour which should start from May 24, 2023 near Nice.
Michel Polnareff took advantage of his passage in C à vous last night to settle accounts with Patrick Cohen. If the interpreter of “Letter to France” had a grudge against him, it’s mainly because he still hasn’t digested a rumor to which the journalist returned. A story that dates back to 2016 when Polnareff had to interrupt a tour after being hospitalized for serious health reasons, a publicity stunt according to his producer Gilbert Coullier who had accused him of having bluffed on his state of health. “The thing that shocked me the most – we talked about it on the phone – was the liner, which said ‘Michel Polnareff, liar?'”, explains the star in front of Patrick Cohen. “But I don’t! I know the liner didn’t come from you. I completely understand, I respect, that you did an investigation, that you asked questions. […] I found you very suspicious of the truth“. And Patrick Cohen, to try to defend himself with the means at hand, recalling that he had just wondered about the communication around the event. “But how can we doubt the word of doctor Siouwhich is a top […] and the American Hospital? How can you say that I wear pale. It’s incredible !”. Does Michel Polnareff feel offended by the controversy? Response from the principal concerned to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine: “It didn’t upset me, I found it incredible to be practically dying and that it is said that you were brought in pale so as not to do the Salle Pleyel.
This song that still cracks Michel Polnareff
If he does not sulk his pleasure in reinterpreting his cult songs on the piano, Michel Polnareff has a heavy heart when he tackles one of the greatest classics of his repertoire. So “My regrets“, a hit recorded in 1968 which he confides that he took up on the piano with a sob in his throat. This version, full of emotion, appears as it is in his new album, a strong artistic choice on which Michel Polnareff returns in an interview with CNEWS. “I have maybe regret for putting my regrets on record, because I have a little emotional problem in the middle, and I can’t sing the end anymore. But we kept the thing, because it’s part of the truth of the album“, justifies the singer. “My regrets“resurrects indeed the ghosts that haunt Michel Polnareff.”It’s a song that was written, like a literary fantasy, and it just happened in my real life, it really came across. So the memory of that time made me crack in the middle of the song“. There is no doubt that his upcoming tour is shaping up to be one of the most moving moments in the 78-year-old artist’s long and prolific career.