Héloïse Goy, with Alexis Patri
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Her voice is as famous as her gaze is secret. Philippe Manoeuvre, the former editor-in-chief of Rock & Folk and a sworn member of The new staranime from Thursday evening Radio Manoeuvre, a new weekly program from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on RFM (which belongs, like Europe 1, to the Lagardère group). The one who answers to the nickname “Philman” is not a radio novice: he started on the air in 1981 on France Inter and has already worked for RTL, Ouï FM, still Europe 1, where he animated in 2016 the show hello rockers.
Small and big stories of music
“I think it’s going to be a festive show. We all want to play rock, but also blues, grunge, with our friends the Beatles, the Stones, the Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Motorhead…” , promises Philippe Manoeuvre at the microphone of Europe 1. “People want that. At the same time, I’m not just a record player, I’m also a journalist. So I can comment on rock news. We For example, just learned that Bob Dylan is going to release a new book, which will be a musical summary of his philosophy of songs. It will deal with 150 artists! I want to talk about that.”
In addition to rock, other musical genres such as pop, punk, reggae and soul will also be explored by this Philippe Manoeuvre. Very few guests are planned for this show, but the journalist wants to make a small announcement: “If Mick Jagger wants to come and talk about the Rolling Stones tour, the microphone is open!”, He slips to Europe 1.
On his show, the one who was editor-in-chief of rock magazines for 50 years will also share anecdotes about music with listeners. He already reveals one to us exclusively. “In the first show, there will be a question from my son Ulysses, who is a Beatles fan. He loves the song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, so he’s going to ask me how this song was created, and I’m going to tell it”, he announces. “It’s a mind-blowing song in the Beatles corpus, the one on which they worked the most: they recorded it in 40 hours, which is the time it took them to make their first two albums. Through my career, I know these stories, I thought it could be interesting to tell them.
Philippe Maneuver in Radio Manoeuvre, it is to be found every Thursday from this week at 8 p.m. on RFM.