“He stops because my father prefers to stop now”: Jacques Dutronc, 79, prematurely ended the joint tour with his son Thomas, indicates this last Thursday on RTL.
“It’s his style of not doing too much, he prefers to be weird (…) We have the impression, we, of stopping in the middle of the tour,” continues Dutronc junior.
Therefore, the two men performed for the last time on Wednesday night in Paris at the Accor Arena. A press release sent by the record company’s press service, titled “Jacques Dutronc has paid for his last tour”, even speaks of “Jacques’s farewell to the stage”. Thomas is not so definitive.
“Surely he will regret not continuing, because (we had) put on a show with onions. She sang wonderfully, a really fabulous voice,” she said on RTL.
“He is worried about not holding up”
Surprise returns are common in show business, even at older ages. Michel Sardou, now 75 years old, assured the Parisian that he would leave the scene in 2021, before announcing last November that he would return there in 2023.
Jacques Dutronc had only agreed at his son’s request to leave his musical retirement in Corsica.
“It is true that he did not return home, to Corsica, during the entire tour, adds his son on RTL. He stayed on the mainland, it is not easy. And then, he will be 80 years old (in April). He is worried that he will not be able to hold on ” .
“Anyway, whatever he chose, he would not have been happy. I know him. He loves concerts. It’s all around what is a bit complicated,” concludes his son.
To mark the end of the tour, the clip of I am nobody (Eternal until tomorrow) was published on Thursday. The lyrics, written by Thomas, and sung with his father, are clearly inspired by the famous dilettantism of Dutronc father: “What I prefer / Is to do nothing / Don’t go believing / That it’s easy / Stay in the bar / And keep his style”.
“Thomas is a great worker, which is a quality, except perhaps in Corsica, with me, that’s average,” Jacques joked in front of the press in April, at the launch of this joint tour that was going to spill over in 2023.
Source: BFM TV
