Guest on the set of C to you on France 5 on January 11, 2022, Axel Bauer made astonishing revelations about one of his first televisions in the 1980s. The singer was a guest on the set of Champs-Elysees and (almost) destroyed everything in its path.
An almost cult sequence. Tuesday January 11, 2022, Axel bauer was invited on the set of C to you on France 5 to present his ninth album called Radio London. The 60-year-old singer, recently affected by a tumor, has agreed to look back on the heyday of his artistic career but also on his first live performances on television. Alongside Gilles Lellouche and Daniel Auteuil, who came to present the film Farewell Mr. Haffmann, the interpreter of Cargo had fun commenting on the images of his time on the show Champs-Élysées, presented by Michel Drucker in 1984 on TF1, during which he tried to destroy his guitar live. “I had rage, I was in a black anger”, he explained to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and her chroniclers.
“Michel Drucker represented the establishment”
“It’s the story of a guitar that doesn’t want to break”, launches the presenter, before broadcasting the extract on the set of C to you. And the main interested one to comment: “It was one of my first TVs. It must be said that Michel Drucker represented the establishment for me, I wanted to destroy his tray but I had not calculated that his tray was made of plexiglass. So the guitar was bouncing! “, he explained, eliciting laughter on set. “I was in a rage, I was in a rage!”, he added, all the same melancholy.
Behind the scenes of the birth of the Cargo music video
As Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine explains, the song clip Cargo, over a million copies sold at the time, was born from an outfit Axel Bauer wore during a studio recording in the 1980s: “The text was inspired by the film Querelle by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Michel eli [ l’auteur de la chanson, ndlr.] saw this movie and I arrived at the studio the following Monday with a cap on, he drew an analogy between the actor in the movie and the way I was dressed. He saw the character! It was a compositional role “, explained Axel Bauer. Souvenirs printed like “a machine in [sa] head, leitmotif, secret night “…