Jean-Louis Murat had always opposed the release of a compilation of his best songs. Too conventional, too banal for this artist who stubbornly refused to look back. However, ambivalent and full of paradoxes, Murat had finally accepted, happy with the remarkable work done in recent years, the reissue of his complete discography. This first Best Of is released this Friday, May 26.
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It is disturbing to think that the principal concerned will not see it. He died of a sudden pulmonary embolism. He was 71. This Best Of should be the first step in the rehabilitation of this craftsman of the song, a master too often neglected and underestimated. Posterity will be lenient for his work: Murat is an immense singer-songwriter, as modest as conceited, refined and in-house at the same time, past master in the art of bad faith and provocation.
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