![]() How do you find the community in Normandy? You are practically French, having lived here for 51 years.Įxpats often do not mix with the French, they watch Sky television. Nino (Ferrer, a French singer-songwriter) wrote a couple of silly songs, like the one with the cornichons, but he really helped me out. Jacques Higelin as well (a friend of mine by the way). (Editor’s note: Most of these are known for their chansons françaises, rather than rock anthems.) Alain Bashung was a great rebel, Love Francis Cabrel, Alain Bashung, Jacques Higelin, Georges Brassens, Edith Piaf, and Françoise Hardy. I mean, there’s a hell of a lot of bad music in England! I Do you agree with John Lennon when he said that French rock is like English wine. Strangely enough, it is the song for the latest James Bond film, sung by French star Dalida. Tom had written the words, and William the music. I also worked on a song with Tom Arena, who collaborated with William Sheller for Les Irrésistibles (a 70s boy band). It was a mutual understanding of the same big ballads, the sort of gospel records which we both bought and loved. He wanted someone English to adapt Lux Aeterna, one of his operas. His background was very classical, whereas I was a ballad singer. He was very much into The Beatles and George Martin. Well, William Sheller has Canadian and Scottish origins, if I remember correctly. How did the collaboration with popular French singer-songwriter William Sheller go? As British and French musicians, how did you successfully bring together your different musical worlds? I’m talking seriously good guitar, banjo and accordion players that I did not encounter in Orbec. ![]() I have discovered a lot of blues bands with musicians that fit right in with my sort of country-rock style – something between Dire Straits, Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton. It is unreal.Įvery day musicians come round to practice with me. Instead, I have found so many musicians in Bernières-sur-Mer. I was really afraid after leaving Orbec because I had my circle of musicians and wondered whether I would lose all my contacts and not be able to play on stage again. ![]() What is your experience of touring in Normandy? Not this rubbish that you buy in the supermarket. Do you still have Livarot cheese and Calvados in your cupboards?Ībsolutely. Our new house in Bernières-sur-Mer is 600 metres from the beach, which is fine. We always wanted a house right on the beach. We lived in Meulles, between Orbec and Vimoutiers, but when we could, my wife and I used to drive to the nearest beach in Houlgate. ![]()
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