Raw, Emotional, Stripped-down Singer/Songwriter and Folk Music with Great Melodies, Albums you'd consider lyrical masterpieces (10/10's). This environment imparted to Brassens a passion for singing that would come to define his life. In Germany, he met some of his best friends like Pierre Onténiente, whom he nicknamed "Gibraltar", because he was "firm as a rock." This site uses cookies. He found time to write Bonhomme and Pauvre Martin, along with more than a hundred other songs, that were later either burned or frequently altered before they reached their final form (Le Mauvais sujet repenti). Any especially cool or interesting esoteric charts? Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. Renée Claude, an important Québécois singer, dedicated a tribute-album to him, J'ai rendez-vous avec vous (1993). Brassens accepted and stayed there for twenty-two years. mesmo assim, a facilidade com que o artista cria e desenvolve. His songs have a major influence on many French singers across several generations, including Maxime Le Forestier, Renaud, Bénabar and others. It was obvious to him and his new friends that he wouldn't come back. Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." He began working at a Renault car factory. Georges stole a ring and a bracelet from his sister. He told his friend André Sève, "[It is] a kind of internal vibration, something intense, a pleasure that has something of the sensual to it." O sea el penúltimo de su obra. Brassens lived with his aunt Antoinette in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, where he taught himself to play piano. He continued writing poems and songs. Be respectful! His approach to poetry was almost scientific. The young men were publicly characterized as "high school mobsters" or "scum" — voyous. In March 1943, Brassens was requisitioned for the STO (Service du travail obligatoire) forced labour organisation in Germany. His songs have been translated into 20 languages, including Esperanto. Don't comment just to troll/provoke. Jokes are fine, but don't post tactless/inappropriate ones. Y me parece uno de los mejores, si es que es posible elegir dentro de una obra inabarcable, eterna. Many schools, theatres, parks, public gardens, and public places are dedicated to Georges Brassens and his work, including: All of Georges Brassens' studio albums are untitled. A few trips to Belgium and Switzerland; a month in Canada (1961, recording issued on CD in 2011) and another in North Africa were his only trips outside France – except for his concerts in Wales in 1970 and 1973 (Cardiff). Votes are used to help determine the most interesting content on RYM. Georges Brassens in concert at the Théâtre national populaire, September–October 1966. De 1952 avec Le fossoyeur, à 1976 avec Trompe la mort, la thématique de la mort a été omniprésente. RYM has been updated with a new front page, a "New music" page, updated Sonemic charts, 50+ new features, fixes and improvements, and new subscriber features. Onténiente later became his right-hand man and his private secretary. "6587 Brassens" is an asteroid discovered in 1984 and named in honour of the French poet and songwriter. sarcastic, male vocals, acoustic, sexual, humorous, La ballade des gens qui sont nés quelque part, por ser um dos primeiros álbuns que busquei pra melhor compreender o idioma e a cultura francesa, não seria surpresa dizer que tenho um certo vínculo afetivo com a obra. His songs often decry hypocrisy and self-righteousness in the conservative French society of the time, especially among the religious, the well-to-do, and those in law enforcement. By continuing to use this website, you agree to our policies regarding the use of cookies. The criticism is often indirect, focusing on the good deeds or innocence of others in contrast. Our website complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act. [clarification needed] Finally, Jeanne Planche came to his aid and offered to put him up as long as necessary. After 1952, Brassens rarely left France. Dieter Kaiser, a Belgian-German singer who performs in public concerts with the French-German professional guitarist Stéphane Bazire under the name Stéphane & Didier has translated into German language and gathered in a brochure 19 Brassens songs. Brassens also popularised French poetry by setting it to music. In May 1940 the factory was bombed, and France was invaded by Germany. While Brassens's father was more forgiving and immediately picked up his son, Brassens was expelled from school. That is quite a transformation. Brassens said in an interview: "An anarchist is a man who scrupulously crosses at the zebra crossing, because he hates to argue with the agents". His friends who heard and liked his songs urged him to go and try them out in a cabaret, café or concert hall. Reading, for instance, a poem by Verlaine, he dissected it image by image, attentive to the slightest change in rhythm, analyzing the rhymes and the way they alternated. Apart from Paris and Sète, he lived in Crespières (near Paris) and in Lezardrieux (Brittany). 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Brassens returned to the family home in Sète. Les Presses de la Cité, 1981. [6] He accompanied himself on acoustic guitar. He did not work, since employment would serve only to profit the occupying enemy. He was said to love music above all else: it was his first passion and the path that led him to his career. During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). To rate, slide your finger across the stars from left to right. His lyrics are difficult to translate, though attempts have been made. The end of the war meant the homecoming of the friends from Basdorf, with whom Brassens planned to create an anarchist-minded paper, Le Cri des Gueux (The villains' cry), which stopped after the first edition due to a lack of money. He drew on this enormous literary culture as he wrote his first collection of poems, Des coups d’épée dans l’eau, the conclusion of which foreshadowed the anarchism of his future songs: Brassens also published À la venvole in 1942, thanks to the money of his family and friends, and with the surprising help of a woman named Jeanne Planche, a neighbour of Antoinette, probably the first Brassens fan. [4] His concert at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre in 1973 saw Jake Thackray — a great admirer of his work – open for him.[5]. He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems. According to Pierre Onténiente: "Jeanne had a crush on Georges, and Marcel knew nothing, as he started to get drunk at eight in the morning.". Bonnafé aided his attempts at poetry and pushed him to spend more time on his schoolwork, suggesting he begin to study classical poetry. Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He was shy and had difficulty performing in front of people. They would later become close friends. The police found and caught him, which caused a scandal. After the failure of Le Cri des Gueux, Brassens joined the Anarchist Federation and wrote some virulent, black humour-tinged articles for Le Libertaire, the Federation's paper. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. He also wrote the beginning of his first novel, Lalie Kakamou. Jeanne lived with her husband Marcel in a hovel at 9 impasse Florimont, with no gas, water or electricity. Brassens composed about 250 songs, of which 200 were recorded, the other 50 remaining unfinished. The end of World War II and the freedom suddenly regained didn't change his habits much, except that he got his library card back and resumed studying poetry. They are referred either as self-titled with a number, or by the title of the first song on the album, or by the most well-known song. Most of his texts are tinged with black humour and are often anarchist-minded. The owner of a cafe told him that his songs were not the type he was looking for. Later on, every time I wrote a song, I asked myself the question: would Bonnafé like it?" A1, B2 are rather explicit yeah, and A4, A5, A6, B5 lowkey refer to sexual things too to various degrees, the rest is not. La legende de la Nonne -Based on Hugo's poem: "The legend of the nun", where the nun tells her innocent schoolchildren about her God's horrific terrors for those sin, which bcomes a Hugo classic of poetic exuberation. Georges Brassens [Fernande] est l'un de ses albums majeurs contenant des classiques du monsieur (Fernande, La princesse et le croque-notes, Sauf le respect que je vous dois, Mourir pour des idées, Quatre vingt quinze pour cent et Le roi) I hadn't transformed it into honey yet.". Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Plus de la moitié de l’oeuvre de Georges Brassens, traite directement ou indirectement de la mort. He composed using as his only instrument a small piece of furniture that he called "my drum" on which he beat out the rhythm. But at one point he met the singer Patachou in a very well-known cafe, Les Trois Baudets, and she brought him into the music scene. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group. Brassens grew up in the family home in Sète with his mother, Elvira Dagrosa, father, Jean-Louis, half-sister, Simone (daughter of Elvira and her first husband, who was killed in World War I), and paternal grandfather, Jules. He resumed writing the novel he started in Basdorf, for only now did he consider a career as a famous novelist. He once said on the radio: "It was nice there, and I have gained since then quite an amazing sense of discomfort." 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Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! In recent years,[when?] Brassens later commented on his early works: "In those times, I was only regurgitating what I had learned reading the poets. Use the boards for extended discussion. He later on made several appearances at the Paris Olympia under Bruno Coquatrix' management and at the Bobino music hall theater. Brassens rarely performed abroad. [3] He also said: "I'm not very fond of the law. Alphonse Bonnafé, Brassens's ninth-grade teacher, strongly encouraged his apparent gift for poetry and creativity. Brassens had already been experimenting with songwriting and poetry. Franco-Cameroonian singer Kristo Numpuby also released a cover-album with the original French lyrics but adapted the songs to various African rhythms. After being given ten days' leave in France, he decided not to return to the labor camp. At age seventeen, he was implicated in crimes that would prove to be a turning point in his life. Brassens died of cancer in 1981, in Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, having suffered health problems for many years, and rests at the Cimetière Le Py in Sète. In 2008, the English folk-singer Leon Rosselson included a tribute song to Brassens, entitled "The Ghost of Georges Brassens", on his album A Proper State. Several famous singers came into the music industry this way, including Jacques Brel and Léo Ferré. His mother, whom Brassens labeled a "missionary for songs" (militante de la chanson), came from southern Italy (Marsico Nuovo in Basilicata),[2] was a devout Roman Catholic, while his father was an easy-going, generous, openminded, anticlerical man. To get money, Georges and his gang started to steal from their families and others. Brassens grew up between these two starkly contrasting personalities, who nonetheless shared a love for music. En aquél momento post-mayo del 68, Georges Brassens todavía tenía fuerzas, a pesar de su mala salud crónica, para mantener y aún reforzar su legendaria costumbre de no rehuir ningún tema por escabroso que pudiera ser o parecer. It was then that he set a pattern of rising at five in the morning, and going to bed at sunset – a pattern he maintained the greater part of his life. He had indeed led quite a lonely life in Paris, seeing only a friend from Sète and the girls. Georges Brassens – La marguerite et le chrysanthème. At the same time, he set up the "Prehistoric Party" with Emile Miramont (a friend from Sète nicknamed "Corne d'Auroch" – the horn of an Aurochs, an ancient large bovine species) and André Larue (whom he met in Basdorf), which advocated the return to a more modest way of life, but whose chief purpose was to ridicule the other political parties. In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française. Likewise, don't respond to trollish comments; just report them and ignore them. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux), Victor Hugo (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes). The song "À Brassens" ("To Brassens") from Jean Ferrat's album Ferrat was dedicated to Brassens. Este álbum aparecido en octubre de 1972 es el número 11 de la discografía brasseniana. In Paris, he had to find a hideout, but he knew very few people. His elegant use of florid language and dark humor, along with bouncy rhythms, often give a rather jocular feel to even the grimmest lyrics. At the time he listened constantly to his early idols: Charles Trenet, Tino Rossi, and Ray Ventura. Many singers have covered Georges Brassens' lyrics in other languages, for instance Pierre de Gaillande, who translates Brassens' songs and performs them in English, Luis Cilia in Portuguese, Koshiji Fubuki in Japanese, Fabrizio De André (in Italian), Alberto Patrucco (in Italian), and Nanni Svampa (in Italian and Milanese), Graeme Allwright and Jake Thackray (in English), Sam Alpha (in creole), Yossi Banai (in Hebrew), Arsen Dedić (in Croatian), Jiří Dědeček (in Czech), Mark Freidkin (in Russian), Loquillo, Paco Ibáñez, Javier Krahe, Joaquín Carbonell and Eduardo Peralta (in Spanish), Jacques Ivart (in esperanto), Franz Josef Degenhardt and Ralf Tauchmann (in German), Mani Matter in Bernese Dialect, Zespół Reprezentacyjny (they released 2 CDs of Brassens' songs in Polish) and Piotr Machalica (in Polish), Cornelis Vreeswijk (Swedish) and Tuula Amberla (in Finnish). As Léautaud would say, I could do without laws [...] I think most people couldn’t.". Once put up at Jeanne Planche's, Georges had to stay hidden for five months, waiting for the war to come to an end. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Georges Brassens Georges Brassens nouvelles chansons N°14 ℗ 1976 Mercury Music Group Released on: 2010-01-01 Associated Performer, Interprète Instrumental: Joel Favreau Associated Performer, Interprète Instrumental: Pierre Nicolas Author, Composer: Georges Brassens Auto-generated by YouTube. By this point, music had taken a slight backstage to poetry for Brassens, who now dreamed of being a writer. Georges Charles Brassens (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ (ə) ʃaʁl bʁasɛ̃s]; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
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