A report reveals the origin of Renaud’s paranoia. The singer had experienced a traumatic concert in the 80s, which left its mark.
Back on stage to present his new album, Renaud almost lost his temper during a concert. The singer even recently broke up with his ex-wife, Romane Serda, mother of his son Malone. But it is an archive that today highlights the paranoia from which the artist suffers.
In Red line, BFM TV aired a documentary on Monday, April 10, entitled Renaud confidential. And one excerpt particularly stood out. A communist sympathizer in his youth, Renaud had been invited to perform in Russia by Communist Youth in 1985. But his trip did not go as planned, and left marks on him. Aged 33 at the time, he was “super happy” according to his friend and ex-guitarist Mourad Malk, interviewed in the report. He explains: “The concert starts really well. The people in front, who were French-speaking, were thoroughly”.
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Renaud’s disaster concert in Moscow at the origin of his paranoia
The musician specifies that the organization often asks him for the “setlist” of the concert, the order of passage of the songs. Renaud tended to give it at the last minute but they are insistent, which questions the artists. And despite a good start to the show, the situation quickly turns to disaster.
Renaud begins to interpret the song Deserter, featuring a “slightly sassy” song. But the words are not to everyone’s taste: “When the Russians, the Ricans will blow up the planet, I will look smart with my bicycle”. Mourad Malk recounts the events that ensue: “There is a whistle. And there all the Russians get up and break. Two of the cameras turn around to show they didn’t agree.”
The documentary shows Renaud behind the scenes, beside himself. “I’ve never seen him like that, I who know him. He is silent, he is someone who controls himself. And there he freaked out”, comments his friend, who can also be seen in the images.
Renaud is angry, the newspapers headline the next day that he flopped against the young Muscovites but that the whole story will not be told. He only thinks of leaving, and seems convinced that they will be “knocked out”.
Renaud felt he was the victim of a conspiracy. He enters into a very great paranoia. “He doesn’t want to eat because he thinks we’re going to poison himhe does not want to touch people because he thinks that we will transmit the AIDS virus to him… There will develop in Renaud this paranoia which will drive him crazy“.
For Mourad, “he was in deep, but real fear. And that, that was the beginning of his illnessfor sure”.
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