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Enjoy some videos of or about the French-Canadian rock opera Starmania by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon. Many more are in the video playlists of this channel.
Very special ❤ to the singers and actors from Quebec Richard and Norman Groulx.

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LilyA

The song "Quand on n'a plus rien à perdre" from Starmania takes us back to the genesis of Starmania: the notorious story of Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army in California in 1974. The 19-year-old granddaughter of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, Patty later declared that she had joined the SLA of her own free will and called herself "Tania". She was sending taped messages (just like Cristal) to the authorities and to her grandfather.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-4/pat…)

Fun fact:

"J'ai pensé qu'on pourrait
Faire sauter un supermarché
Pour offrir à tout l'monde
Une entrecôte flambée"

- these lines sung by Johnny Rockfort remind us about the demands of the kidnappers:

"The kidnappers demanded that he provide $70 worth of top quality free meat, vegetables and dairy products over the next four weeks to “all people with welfare cards, Social Security pension cards, food stamp cards, disabled veteran cards, medical cards, parole or probation papers, and jail or bail release slips.”
(www.nytimes.com/1974/02/13/archives/hearst-kidnapp…)

Randolph Hearst gave away some $2 million worth of food, and while SLA kept demanding more, Patty was spotted. participating in armed robberies, and in 1975 arrested and sentenced to prison.

This story inspired Michel Berger to create a rock-opera, which eventually became Starmania.

Enjoy watching this song from Starmania performed by Martine St-Clair & Norman Groulx

https://youtu.be/nhjUpcAsHHQ?si=3Z62i...

Photo: Norman Groulx, Martine St-Clair and Peter Lorne. Theatre de Paris 1989. From the personal collection of Norman Groulx

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LilyA

🙏🤍 August 2 is the sad day when Michel Berger, the outstanding Ftench composer, passed away. He left this world so early but marked so many lives. We remember you…

Please listen to the beautiful tribute to Michel Berger written and performed by Norman Groulx and composed by Franck Callegari “You are not alone”.

The photo captures the sweet moment in 1989 backstage at Theatre Marigny, after a Starmania show, when Michel Berger made a gift for Norman’s birthday.

https://youtu.be/3jhArPjEwrI

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LilyA

The videos with Richard and Norman Groulx as a duet 😎😎 ☀️ ❤❤

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2...

Channels with more "Freres Groulx"
‪@funkedup21‬ ‪@flex54‬

#richardgroulx #normangroulx #Groulx

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LilyA

Sextet 1998 in good quality
https://youtu.be/C-drCTIF7N4?si=yf0Ab...

Full TV emission
https://youtu.be/Lvek2AJ--Lk?si=gMYBt...

Trio 1988

https://youtu.be/Vsw3WstRgAg?si=ZHCe-...

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LilyA

Full show (only audio): Starmania 20th Anniversary 1998

https://youtu.be/25pSShG2MFk?si=EfzVB...
https://youtu.be/H0FaGyDYsqk?si=CAERc...

Info about this production starmaniagroulx.info/s93.html

#starmania #richardgroulx #normangroulx

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LilyA

🌟 Have you seen these precious archives yet?
starmaniagroulx.info/museum_main.html

The new video for "Starmania Virtual Museum" project is up!

Webpage (video + pdf) starmaniagroulx.info/museum_tour_1988_part2.html
Youtube: https://youtu.be/I8KdJskDwZY?si=CANZ3...

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