Maxime Le Forestier celebrates his 75th birthday on February 10. In 1988, he looked back on a career marked by dazzling successes and long crossings of the desert.
A figure of the anarchist left in the 1970s, notably with titles like Parachutiste, Fontenay aux roses and La ville a des princes. In 1987, he recorded “Né somewhere”, a huge hit which won a Victoire de la Musique. “It's a buzzkill. But we must sing for those who are there. We cannot make those who came pay,” he says.