Pierre Delanoë

Pierre Delanoë ( born December 16, 1918 in Paris, † 26 December 2006, ibid; actually Pierre Marcel Charles Napoléon Leroyer ) was a French chanson copywriter.

Life

Delanoë studied law and began after the completion of academic careers in management, including as a tax inspector. When he met after the Second World War, Gilbert Becaud, he began to write song lyrics: For Becaud Nathalie he wrote among other things, Dimanche à Orly, Le jour où The t'appartiens and la pluie viendra. For the texts of other known artists, he was responsible; including Édith Piaf, Hugues Aufray (Le rossignol anglais ), Michel Fugain ( Depending n'aurai pas le temps ), Nicoletta, Nana Mouskouri, Michel Polnareff, Gérard Lenorman (La ballade des gens heureux ), Joe Dassin (L' été indien, Les Champs- Élysées ), and Michel Sardou (Les vieux mariés ). André Claveau brought in 1958 with Delanoës Dors mon amour first time the Grand Prix Euro Vision Song Contest to France - a success that Patrick Juvet, the Je vais me marier, Marie from the pen Delanoës sang at the Grand Prix in 1973, could not repeat. The texts of the French adaptations of the musicals Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar come from Delanoë.

Between 1955 and 1960, Delanoë program director of Europe 1, and later honorary president of the music rights collecting society SACEM. In this position, he was much talked about by comments on rap music: These were considered to " no music, but shouting, Gerülpse, [ ... ] a form of expression for primitive man." However, he compared his " serious professional " with that of a " cutter for Hunchback ," his ideas of the limited capabilities of its customers - have to adapt - the performer.

Delanoë never made a secret of the fact that he was politically close to the Gaullists.

2004 France honored him with the highest cultural award of the country and co- awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Order of Arts and Letters.

He died at the age of 88 of a heart attack.