Jim Morrison, the singer of the rock group The Doors, was foremost a poet. He wrote most lyrics of the group’s songs, and he filled notebooks with poems. In his lifetime he self-published three volumes of his poetry, and more poems were published posthumously. His collected works were edited by Frank Lisciandro and published as a single volume by Harper Design in 2021. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Eugène Léon Édouard Torquet, dit John-Antoine Nau, né le 19 novembre 1860 à San Francisco (Californie) et mort le 17 mars 1918 à Tréboul (Finistère), est un traducteur, romancier et poète symboliste d’ascendance américaine et d’expression française. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Évariste Désiré de Forges, chevalier puis vicomte de Parny, est un poète pré-romantique français, connu pour ses élégies. Fils du major Paul de Forges de Parny, il naît le 6 février 1753 à Saint-Paul de l’île Bourbon, l’actuelle île de La Réunion. À l’âge de 10 ans il part en France pour y faire ses études. À l’instar de son père et de ses frères, il choisit la carrière militaire.
Évariste se lie à deux autres militaires épris comme lui de poésie : Antoine Bertin, natif comme lui de l’île Bourbon, et Nicolas-Germain Léonard, originaire de la Guadeloupe. Tous trois se feront carrière comme poètes. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The two brothers Ira Lonnie Loudermilk and Charles Elzer Loudermilk, known professionally as Ira and Charlie Louvin, formed a musical duo between 1940 and 1963, first playing gospel, then country music. Both sang, with Ira on mandolin and Charlie on guitar. They split in 1963 because of Ira’s drinking and abusive behaviour. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Georges Brize, né à Belleville en Beaujolais le 29 janvier 1961, connut sous le nom de Roméo une brève carrière de chanteur de 1973 à 1976. En décembre 1973, il sortit chez Disques Carrère un 45 tours dont la face A donnait une nouvelle interprétation de « Petit Papa Noël » et la face B était une chanson écrite et composée par Claude Carrère et Jim Larriaga, « Ah ! Les petites filles ». CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The Moldovan-Romanian singer Cleopatra Stratan was born on October 6, 2002 in Chişinău, Moldova. Her father Pavel Stratan is a singer and musician. In 2006 she released her first album La vârsta de 3 ani (“At the age of 3”), which sold more than 150,000 in Romania. It included the hit “Ghiţă,” which reached number 1 in the Romanian Singles Chart. Then in 2008 she released her second album La vârsta de 5 ani (“At the age of 5”). CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The Scruffy Group was a band formed in 1965 by Jack Van Pelt (guitar) and Max Freeland (drums), two students at Ohio State University, who joined with two friends from their hometown Lima, Ohio: Jim Buehl (rhythm guitar) and Alan Ulrich (bass). The band moved to Strongsville, Ohio, where they played night concerts at the Skyline Inn. After being suggested to make a single, Jack Van Pelt composed the two songs “Little Girl” and “Do” in four hours. The band recorded them in a few hours at Audio Recording in Cleveland. The record was released in the summer of 1965 by Jimmy Testa’s Tema label, with “Little Girl” on the A side. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Le marquis Louis Eugène de Lonlay (1815–1886) est un chansonnier, compositeur, poète et romancier français. J’ai choisi dans ses Poésies nouvelles un poème nostalgique évoquant un lointain amour de jeunesse. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The song “Listen Little Girl” was written by Vee Bond and composed by Claus Ogerman. It was performed by the English singer Keith Kelly in 1960. It appeared in July as the A side of a single on the label Parlophone, with the song “Uh Huh” on the B side. It reached number 47 in the UK Singles Chart. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Il y a un an, j’ai publié les poèmes « La Reine de Mai » et « Claire » de Jean Aicard, à propos d’une reine de mai qu’il aimait et qui mourut dans son enfance. Voici un poème semblable, provenant du recueil Chansons de Clément. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
