Etienne Daho, confessions of an eternal fan<

Dans son loft aux grands murs blancs, verrières et bois clair, à Montmartre, Étienne Daho a ordonné avec élégance les hommages à son panthéon intime. Au-dessus des collections bien rangées de livres, DVD et vinyles nourrissant ses passions, des photos d’idoles (Lou Reed, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie…), parfois devenues des ami(e) s (Debbie Harry, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy…).

Mais c’est dans la salle à manger que trône la plus spectaculaire manifestation de l’aspect fan de son caractère : l’encadrement d’une immense reproduction de « Punk Story », un roman-photo consacré au groupe Stinky Toys, paru en 1977 dans le magazine Rock & Folk.Designed and offered by the former group manager, the photographer Dominique Tarlé, this nicely destroy fresco attests to the unwavering attachment of the interpreter of Fall for France to these hexagonal punk pioneers, led by Elli Medeiros (Piaver song)and Jacno (acid guitar).

Surtout, elle rappelle à quel point le chanteur de 61 ans, né à Oran et qui a grandi à Rennes, idole des festives années 1980, devenu une des figures les plus respectées de la scène française, se nourrit de ses coups de cœur, lui dont un nouveau single, Les Flocons de l’été, sortira le 1^er septembre, avant son audacieux onzième album, Blitz (Virgin/Mercury/Universal), attendu en novembre.

Without the concert of the Stinky Toys organized on the snatch, on December 20, 1978, by their biggest fan Rennes, French pop would probably not be what it is.As a book of souvenir photos-Daho before the wave, by Pierre René-Worms and Sylvie Coma (ed RVB Books) recalls, to be published on September 15-the band of Elli and Jacno, blocked after the show by a stormof snow, spent the night in their admirer's little apartment.A friendship was born between the future pioneering duo of electro-pop and this apprentice songwriter, of which, in 1981, Jacno was going to produce the first album, mythomaniac.

Punk intransigence and pop tubes

At a time when you still had to choose your camp between rock and variety, tube and text song, the boy-who had grown up listening to the hits of beach boys and yéyé broadcast by the juke-box of the coffee of his aunts, before flourishing among the "modern young people" of the Rennes scene-invented a territory where Anglo-Saxon pop aristocracy and French song, intransigence punk and popular refrains could freely meet..

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