For Sylvie Vartan and Nicoletta, he will always be "Doudou".
The one who encouraged them before entering the Olympia, the one who enlightened them like no one else.
For the stars whose names shone in red letters on the facade of the mythical room, Roger Morizot has been for decades a confidant, the indispensable man in the shadows, right-hand man of the director Bruno Coquatrix.
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Today, in his house in western Paris, where confinement weighs heavily on him, it is an elderly man who sometimes searches for his words, but his memory is intact.
“From
Gilbert Bécaud
to Charles Aznavour, Claude François and Johnny Hallyday, I saw them all start
,” he says.
I liked them all, we had to when we worked with them, but there were still some hellish blunders.
Those, like Michel Polnareff and Thierry Le Luron, I scratch them because they deserve it. "
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At 91, he took a look behind the scenes at the Olympia, of which he was the manager, from its reopening in 1954 to 1988. Anecdote fans
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