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LILLE
« La VOIX DU
NORD »
Le
Splendid Jenlain – |
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Peter
Kingsbery Was in Splendid yesterday evening
The
Rock gently
Yesterday
evening, Peter KINGSBERY did not often take the guitar,
preferring
it the organ and the synthesizers |
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As
his voice is strong when he sings, as it is sweet when he speaks. Peter
KINGSBERY - ex singer of Cock Robin - was apparently happy to be in
Lille yesterday evening. Even if the public - 150 persons fantastic -
had not crowded in Splendid to listen to him. " You touched us to
be there and not in Jean - Jacques Goldman's concert there ", he
made fun in perfect French. Then, misfortune to those who were not
there. And complete happiness for the others.
Mainly
in the organ and in the synthé, a quite small few in the guitar, he
played during more than two hours. Resuming the songs which propelled
him on the front of the scene in the 80s ("Just around the Corner
", "The promise you made" or "Only the very best
") and making discover those whom he created solo. |
Accompanied
by three musicians - French, please-, a violinist, a drummer, a
trumpeter (besides lcharged with the electronic classifications), Peter
KINGSBERY clearly exposed(explained) the musical bend which he
negotiated. The rhythm is that of the 90s, there are not guitars anymore
(that misses moreover maybe little). Place, partially, in the music
assisted by computer. There is something experimental in the new
creations.
Prevent,
on scene, the man is, with his voice, his humor there. Yesterday
evening, Peter KINGSBERY brought the last classifications to a spectacle
which leaves for tour in all Europe. Neither him, nor his musicians
saved their efforts. In the room, they were not numerous, but those took
advantage well of it. |
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Peter
Kingsbery et l’après Cock Robin
« Arrêter le groupe
n’a pas été de mon fait ! »
« Cock
Robin » fut assurément l’une des plus fabuleuses usaines à
tubes des années 80. A l’origine des immortels « When
your heart is weak » ; « Just around ther
corner » ou « The promise you made », le duo
Peter Kingsbery-Anna Lacazio explosa en pleine gloire. Alors
que, pas plus sa carrière solo que celle d’Anna n’ont fait
oublier la magie des années complices, Peter Kingsbery, à
l’occasion du premier concert de sa tournée européenne, donné
dernièrement au Splendid Jenlain de Lille, revient sur ses années
de braise : « Ce qui me
reste aujourd’hui de Cock Robin, c’est beaucoup de regrets.
Ce groupe, c’était avant tout le plaisir de chanter en duo
avec Anna. J’éprouve d’autres choses aujourd’hui, je
prends mon pied autrement. Avec Anna Lacazio, c’était le
privilège d’établir une complicité entre deux voix se complétant
à merveille… Pour moi, la fin du groupe fut un peu comme
celle des Everly Brothers. Cock Robin, c’était toute ma
famille… C’est le métier qui nous a tués. Arrêter le
groupe n’a pas été de mon fait. Anna a voulu qu’on stoppe
tout pour plein de raisons ; entre autres, elle avait
l’impression d’être constamment dans mon ombre, alors que
ce n’était vraiment pas le but du groupe. La boîte de
disques avait tout simplement choisi de plus exposer ma voix que
la sienne. Cette stratégie, je m’en rends compte
aujourd’hui, c’était n’importe quoi. Où l’on mettait
Anna en avant, par contre, c’était dans les clips. Je me
souviens de la première fois où j’ai visionné celui
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LILLE
« La VOIX DU
NORD »
17 octobre 1998
Le
Splendid Jenlain – |
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Peter Kingsbery and after Cock
Robin
" To stop the group was
not of my fact! " |
| "Cock
Robin" was certainly one of the most fabulous usaines in
tubes of the 80s. At the origin of the immortal " When your
heart is weak "; " Just around the Corner " or
" The promise you made ", the duet Peter
Kingsbery-Anna Lacazio exploded in full glory. While, no more
his solo career than that of the Anna made the magic of the
collusive years forget, Peter Kingsbery, on the occasion of the
first concert of his turned European, given recently to Splendid
Jenlain of Lille, returns over his years of live charcoal :
" What stays in me of Cock
Robin today, it is many regrets. This group, it was above all
the pleasure to sing in duet with Anna. I feel the other things
today, I take my foot otherwise. With Anna Lacazio, it was the
privilege to establish a complicity between two voices
complementing itself marvelously … For me, the end of the
group was little as that of Everly Brothers. Cock Robin, it was
all my family … It is the profession which killed us. To stop
the group was not of my fact. Anna wanted that we stop
everything for height of reasons ; Among others, it had the
impression to be constantly in my shadow, while it was not
really the purpose of the group. |
The
box of discs had simply chosen to expose more my voice than his.
This strategy, I realize it today, it was anything. Where
we advanced Anna, on the other hand, it was in
clips. I remember the first time when I viewed that of
" When your heart is weak ", turned in the desert of
Joshuah Tree, we saw only her, with her superbes eyes, the
middle-Chinese, the middle-Italian. Waow, I couldn't escape her
! … Since the end of the group, she has a small resentment
against this business generally, then she began all the time to
meet itself. Have been so popular and realize brutally that
everything is finished, it is not easy to manage. Anna recovered
to work that for two years, to record,
in 97, an album at Gorgone, in Lille. A disc filled with
extraordinary songs revealing composer's authentic talent. It is
moreover while she was in studio for which I asked her to
collaborate in my album " Pretty Ballerina ". We
redid "More Than Willing", a duet of our debuts
which I wanted to work again. At once, that was again magic!
"
Comment
collected by P. WALLART
Photo
Philippe PAUCHET |
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| « When
your heart is weak », tourné dans le désert de Joshuah Tree, on
ne voyait qu’elle, avec ses superges yeux, mi-chinois, mi-italiens.
Waow, I couldn’t escape her !… Depuis la fin du groupe, elle a
une petite rancœur contre ce business en général, alors elle a pris
tout le temps de se retrouver. Avoir été aussi populaire et se rendre
brutalement compte que tout est fini, ce n’est pas facile à gérer.
Anna ne s’est remise à travailler que depuis deux ans, pour
enregistrer, en 97, un album chez Gorgone, à Lille. Un disque bourré
de chansons extraordinaires révélant un authentique talent de
compositeur. C’est d’ailleurs pendant qu’elle était en studio que
je lui ai demandé de collaborer à mon album « Pretty Ballerina ».
On a refait « More Than Willing », un duo de nos débuts que
j’avais envie de retravailler. Tout de suite, ça a été à nouveau
magique ! »
Propos
recueillis par P. WALLART
Photo Philippe PAUCHET – La Voix |
