For Didier Barbelivien, confinement was a period conducive to major decisions. Embarrassed for a few months by a polyp on the vocal cords which prevented him from giving the full measure of his voice, he decided to follow the wise advice of his doctors who advised him to have it removed. He should have an operation in the coming months.
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While waiting to find his audience, this prolific song maker - he wrote or composed for Gilbert Montagné, Johnny Hallyday, Christophe, Enrico Macias, Patricia Kaas ..., - exercises his pen which, coronavirus obliges, is over the time become more corrosive.
Because no one, in fact, has forgotten the pamphlet written in full confinement, entitled The tirade to the incompetent , very freely inspired by the lines of Victor Hugo in Ruy Blas , in which he openly criticized the management of the health crisis by the government.
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This joke had spontaneously come to this "social animal", as he likes to call himself, by watching with his daughters La Folie des grandeurs by Gérard Oury, adapted precisely from the Hugolian work.
In this formidable comedy, led by the rhythm of the music of Michel Polnareff, the brilliant Louis de Funès, perfect in the skin of the minister as soft as it is crooked, Don Salluste, had fun eating away at the greats of Spain and King Charles II in person. When seeing the film with his offspring again, the parallel with the current situation was obvious to Didier Barbelivien who immediately wrote: "Bon appétit gentlemen, honest ministers / Who confine France like vinegar ..."
Today, his anger subsided and while waiting to find his loyal fans in a concert at Pleyel or elsewhere at the end of the year or at the beginning of 2021, Didier Barbelivien resumed his writing and his guitar. Optimistic again, He firmly believes that The coming summer will be hot like the tube he wrote for Éric Charden in 1979.
Summer will be hot by Éric Charden, words by Didier Barbelivien
La Folie des grandeurs by Gérard Oury in 1971, music by Michel Polnareff, inspired by Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, with Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Venantino Venantini ...