David McNeil, born in 1946 in the state of New York, is an author, composer, song performer, also author of novels, arrived in France in 1948. His songs have, among others, interpreted by Yves Montand, Alain Souchon, Julien Clerc, Sacha Distel, Robert Charlebois, Renaud, Laurent Voulzy ... His mother living in Belgium, David McNeil was part around the middle of the 1970s the Belgian underground cinema. He described his childhood with his father, the painter Marc Chagall in his book Some in the footsteps of an angel. Originally issued in 2012, 28 Boulevard des Capucines, has just emphasized in his pocket. On 27 January 1997, while David McNeil na more sang on stage for twenty years, he was invited to give a concert at the Olympia, just before the prestigious hall of the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris will make new skin. From this pretext, the artist will give us memories and anecdotes related to the musical world especially, but also the many meetings that have marked his life. The seedy touring debut with the conditions that he finds much more comfortable during both heating concerts in lOlympia province before his unexpected amazement at the check-generated lampleur copyrights Melissa (for Julien Clerc) that the financial mess of fate where he vegetated, topics are vast. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to an artist who laccompagnera lOlympia on stage, his great friend Robert Charlebois, Alain Souchon, Renaud, Laurent wolf and others. But I lai said David McNeil was chic, all his life, to cross a lot of very different people, so there will be by Robert Doisneau, Antoine Blondin and Chagall course, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret or Patrick Modiano classmate high school. The book is very short, written on a playful tone, but in this apparent lightness percent ambiguous emotion when he recalls his father, "this is the day that i knew my father followed me from afar", cynicism when he remembers easy material advantages RCA-France employees using and abusing shamelessly "absences in the office that everyone did not care" and balance a few casually picks, not spitting on the name dropping, "camp Majax boxes, so called because the wizard will invite his conquests in wicked bungalows six under. "Or the dairies," crooner Henri Salvador really know, wonderful singer, but execrable man. "Except that it does make black humor about dun guitarist Renaud, Francois sest Ovid suicide," Renaud called the reception. Francis replied: - I'll be right down and he jumped out the window of the sixth floor. " A good little book which reads very quickly with a host of famous characters or less known and my faith very well writing this sharp observer of the art world. People of quality?
"Once there, two areas take you to the theater, pickup balance was balanced, everything is in place, amps, drums, lights are set, the lodges are welcoming, a snack is planned before the sight: local produce, prepared on a small buffet, a wine of Cahors, simple but very nice, a restaurant after the show was booked, a real restaurant, not a doner kebab or a pizza behind the empty Macumba, the hotel is elegant in the morning, not too early, the spaces are there to get you Completion next concert, stop for lunch under a veranda If javais known this earlier, jaurais is featured. "
