"
Support the punches you give, the punches and the messages."
She wanted me to be a man who was always ready to fight ...
”.
Almost 35 years after his tragic death in Africa, the scansions that Daniel Balavoine loved resurfacing almost by miracle in an integral of his songs which is due out in stores on December 4.
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I had become a man
, recorded at 25 years old in 1977, is the unexpected gift given to his always numerous admirers in a complete which will count no less than 16 CDs (Universal).
This set will be enriched with a 48-page booklet written by genre specialist, Bertrand Dicale, and illustrated with never-before-published photos of the performer
I am not a hero
.
I had become a man
was the eleventh title, finally unsuccessful, of a committed album,
The Adventures of Simon and Gunther,
which had as its theme the story of two German brothers separated by this political border between the East and the 'West, symbolized by the Berlin Wall.
Only then 25 years old, still little known to the general public, Daniel Balavoine will extract from this disc only a single, the song
Lady Marlène
, which will become, a sign of fate, his first success.
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Some will certainly see in this early work a sketch of the denunciation of virile heroism, shouted as much as sung, in
I am not a hero
.
Because,
I had become a man
describes the fate of a man in love who kills his rival out of jealousy.
The fall of this tragic text is however cruel, it does not regain the one he loves:
"I knocked, I shouted, he fell And on the ground, near the stones his gaze Emptied ... Emptied I had become a man.
Murder or assassination?
“Poor guy” she said to me, “that man, I loved him more than you”.
I had become a man
(1977) by and by Daniel Balavoine