Under the rooftops of his house in Nangis in Seine and Marne, Pierre Perret presents a trunk full of notebooks with all the texts of his songs, including the draft of "Jolies colonies de vacances" which he wrote in two days in 1966. 15 days after the release of the record, everyone was singing it everywhere," he explains.
Pierre PERRET has come to inaugurate the new kindergarten that bears his name in the small town of Valencia of Agen, in the Tarn and Garonne. Very emotional testimony of the singer who received a very warm welcome from the children who sang in his honour.
In the middle of a recording session with his musicians and technicians, Pierre Perret explains that he works the old-fashioned way, doing everything by hand, including his songs. Together with his wife Rébecca, they created their own publishing company, Éditions Adèle, the singer is delighted to be free, to work with collaborators of his choice, and to write whatever he wants.
Interviewed at his home, Pierre Perret speaks slang, a language in which he bathed very young by rubbing shoulders with his parents' bistro guests. He explains that he took the meaning of "imagery" that he uses in his songs. He talks about expressions that come to him alone without working on them.
Interviewed by Jean-François KAHN on the taboo subjects in songs and in particular sex, Pierre PERRET admits that he has always spoken about it openly in his songs, which has sometimes earned him censorship on radio and television. He evokes his song "Le Zizi" which has not been censored and whose success started from children.
On his property in Seine et Marne, Pierre PERRET evokes his passion for cooking while preparing a roast chicken. "I think that in creation, it’s something I could have done if I hadn’t gone wrong in the song," he stresses.
Interviewed in his dressing room during a singing tour at Romorantin in the Loir et Cher, Pierre Perret shares his feelings about the French language and slang. He recognizes adapting his vocabulary (extreme or classic) according to the type of songs (humorous or tender) he writes. He believes, however, that it is necessary to master classicism: "as in music, it is better to know his notes before composing things totally ruffled".
Pierre Perret tells his debut on the stage of the Parisian cabaret La Colombe in 1957. "I made the triumph of my life". The next day, Eddie Barclay signed him a five-year contract.
In his property of Seine et Marne, moment of complicity between Pierre Perret and his granddaughter Julie. Then the singer confides that he lives as he wants to live, rather indifferent to the rest of the world. He likes to spend time reading, dreaming, sitting alone in a room for days, or working on a difficult stanza.
Pierre PERRET tells how his passion for the character of Paul Léautaud came to him, while he was a student at the conservatory, and how he decided to meet him in his pavilion at Fontenay aux Roses.
Catherine CEYLAC talks with Pierre PERRET about his political sensitivity. The singer specifies that he has never had a card but rather that he has a left sensitivity. He stresses that "if the world becomes more and more creative and richer, it is through the mixture of writing and races".
Back in the old city that he lived in the 60s in Gennevilliers, Pierre Perret is welcomed by the inhabitants. While he talks with a lady, the latter wipes of the jets of earth. Then the dialogue begins with two young people of the city who evoke the latest events, the burnt cars, their comrades arrested by the police. The singer regrets that politicians do not have the language of their hands. "Maybe it’s not by going to talk about cleaning up the karcher that it can fix things".
On the set of Hervé CLAUDE, Pierre PERRET confesses revolted by intolerance and racism in the pure state, themes evoked in his song "Lily". According to him, the world can only go forward with the mixing of all races and nations. He remains very pessimistic about the rise of racism.
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