Dick Rivers

Alongside famous brands Johnny Hallyday and Eddy Mitchell, Dick Rivers is widely thought to be among the first music artists to introduce France towards the noises of rock and roll & roll. Blessed Herve Fornieri in Fine in 1946, he created a like of Johnny Money, Gene Vincent, and Elvis Presley from a age group, naming himself following the latter’s personality within the 1957 film Loving You. After documenting over 100 music with the important clothing Les Chats Sauvages, he continued to go after a solo profession in the first ’60s, scoring strikes with famous brands “Baby John,” “Tu N’es Plus La,” and “Rien Que Toi,” before going to Alabama in 1967 to utilize a few of America’s biggest blues music artists using one of his most acclaimed information, Dick Rivers Tale. Rivers became even more experimental through the similarly prolific but much less successful ’70s-’80s stage of his profession, turning his hands to humor (L’Interrogation), country-rock (Mississippi Streams), and English-language materials (Dick ‘n’ Move), while also submitting an autobiography, getting a presenting function on Radio Monte Carlo, and briefly re-forming with Les Chats Sauvages because of their 20th wedding anniversary. His profession was rejuvenated within the ’90s because of the critically lauded Plein Soleil, many well-received national travels, and an initial acting function in Jean-Pierre Mocky’s La Candide Madame Duff, as well as the 2000s became just as successful because of a stage debut in Jean Genet’s Les Paravents, an effective greatest-hits record, and 2006’s self-titled collaborative work with -M-, Benjamin Biolay, and Francis Cabrel. In 2011, he celebrated the 50th calendar year of his eventful profession with the record Mister D.