When he saw him sing for the first time at the foot of his Fernand-Léger estate in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), Renaud was not yet the monument of French song that he has become.
Frédéric Pocquet, 15 years old at the time in the late 1970s, remembers "a little blond who sang 200 m from my house, for the Fête de l'Avant-Garde, the Communist Youth newspaper, a festival with Julien Clerc and Little Bob Story”.
It was just after the release of “Laisse concret”, the first track of the second studio album, which launched his career, but it was not yet a must-have.
“In fact, I saw this guy without knowing that it was Renaud, it was well after that I understood that it was him,” summarizes the man who, now aged 62, reproduces the intonations from “Annoying Singer” to perfection.
The fruit of thirty years of concerts singing the star's repertoire.
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