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Sarkozy ‘jealous’ of Carla’s ex Mick Jagger

The former president refused to buy a flat with his wife Carla Bruni in Paris, because former boyfriend Mick Jagger owned one next door, a new book says.

Published: 10 July 2012 11:46 CEST

Sarkozy 'jealous' of Carla's ex Mick Jagger

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“Nicolas is jealous. He is jealous of Mick Jagger,” says a friend of former model Carla Bruni in the book ‘Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger.’

The journalist Christopher Andersen explains that Sarkozy backed out of buying a luxury flat in Paris’s Left Bank because of Mick Jagger, French daily 20 Minutes reports.

In 2009, the presidential couple were house-hunting in Paris when they almost bought a penthouse once owned by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

“The president fell under the charm of this apartment in Paris,” Anderson wrote in his book according to the Daily Mail.

“But as they were preparing to buy it, his security detail informed him that the Rolling Stones singer owned a flat in the same building.”

Apparently, Bruni did not share Sarkozy’s reservations.

In 2007, Carla Bruni was also quoted as saying she had stayed “very close” to Mick Jagger.

“I’m proud people now me as his former mistress. It’s not as if I had a fling with Pinochet or Mussolini,” she said, 20minutes reports.

New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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