Friday, March 20, 2009

Alain Bashung


Yesterday, the French artist, Alain Bashung was laid to rest.
He was one of the good guys. A political artist who wrote great poetry and never compromised his integrity. He appeared 3 weeks ago to recieve a "Lifetime Achievment" Award at the Victoire de Musique, sort of the French Grammys for pop music.
He performed well, in fact he did a brilliant version of Resident de la Republique, but it was obvious to all that he was not well and he earlier this week.
The video is of his song Volontaire and he performs it with the great and also very political French Rock Band, Noir Desir...this must have been from around 2000.

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