Paul Lederman, impresario of Claude François and Coluche, has died | EUROtoday
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LFor a very long time, he was only a identify within the credit. Or a point out in a sentence on TV. Or a thanks at an awards ceremony. Paul Lederman, a genius producer – on the time we referred to as him an impresario –, reigned over present enterprise for nearly forty years. Claude François, Mike Brant, Coluche, Thierry Le Luron, Les Inconnus… They owe their careers to him and have skilled all of the feelings: pleasure, recognition, friendship, love, disappointment, separation, hatred… Paul Lederman, who died on the age of 84, was this man within the shadows who adored the sunshine of others. It is no surprise to seek out solely few interviews, few testimonies or few articles about him. Most French individuals in all probability found him, artificially, within the movie by Florent-Emilio Siri Cloclo (2012), carried out by a Benoît Magimel overplaying the Mediterranean with a pied-noir accent.
The Mediterranean, he was born on the opposite facet, actually, however in Morocco, not in Algeria. Paul Lederman was born in 1940 and really shortly turned passionate in regards to the world of music. First a report retailer proprietor, he requested his clients about their tastes: why this artist? why this title? Like Mr. Jourdain, he invented advertising and marketing research with out realizing it. Lederman had a nostril and a knack for recognizing expertise. Spotted by report corporations, he fairly logically switched to artist administration. He first taken care of Lucky Blondo (“Jolie Petite Sheila”), then got here the primary assembly of his life: Claude François. Abandoned by everybody, the person who was only a Franco-Egyptian who had simply suffered a bitter failure with Nabout Twist finds his fortunate star in Lederman. The latter sends him to Vline Buggy for the difference of “Girls, girls, girls”. A star is born.
Man of blows
He gave “Cloclo” a makeover, chosen its titles, imported melodies, and always innovated for concern of being overtaken. “It happened after a concert in Brussels. The show was triumphant, but I had a premonition. I said to Claude: “If we don’t change everything, in six months we’ll be out of fashion!”,” he defined in a e-book*. “We argued for a week. Then he called me back and, after seeing a James Brown concert, he created the Clodettes and the Fléchettes. At first, there were four of them. I told him: “Either we put eight or twelve of them, or we strip them.” We stripped them!”
Lederman additionally experiments with the creator of “Comme d'habitude” his well-known tips. Claude François is shedding steam? They feign discomfort in Marseille. His profession is taking off once more like a forty five (rpm). Claude François has turn out to be a father? His kids are hidden in order to not tarnish the picture of this coronary heart to be taken.After singing (he would work with Mike Brant, Hervé Vilard and Renaud), Lederman tackled comedy: he propelled a younger 19-year-old imitator into an adored star. With his items, his well-behaved infantile face and his predestined identify (Lederman had nothing to do with it this time), Thierry Le Luron revolutionized imitation and attacked the world of politics and present enterprise. Also in 1971, he noticed one other monster of the zygomatics on the inauguration of an promoting company: Coluche. “He's a genius, I had a crush on him,” defined on tv the person who participated within the creation of the Restos du cœur.
The emperor of present enterprise oversees the 2 kings of humor. Le Luron on the fitting, Coluche on the left. According to the established system: “France is cut in two and folded in four.” In 1985, he had the concept of the century. To relaunch Coluche's profession, which had been sluggish since his tragic presidential candidacy in 1981, he teamed him up with Le Luron's massive joke: parodying Yves Mourousi's marriage to Véronique, which he thought of faux. Lederman, who witnessed the faux union with Eddie Barclay, deployed a torrent of means: carriage, friends, cameras. As a bride, Coluche was THE star of the day; Le Luron was the turkey of the farce.
A's tales finish badly…
The demise of the 2 stars a number of months aside in 1986 will have an effect on the morale of the impresario… Who will shortly bounce again with a brand new group of younger comedians: Les Inconnus. It is as soon as once more a triumph: the rooms are packed, their exhibits acclaimed, their songs repeated, their first movie (The three brothers) rewarded. But A's (Agent, cash, love, take your choose) tales normally finish badly. “The hardest part is getting it off the ground. After that, it's just a question of banking,” he defined to World in 1987.
Money is the darkish facet of the Lederman system, typically caricatured in a darkish swimsuit and a cigar in his mouth. “Lederman, I say 'you' to him, because he took so much money from me, I thought there were several of them,” joked Thierry Le Luron. He assaults Les Inconnus, livid at having been excluded from the Bet and of The Extraterrestrial. He can be dismissed and retains a tenacious hatred of them. “It's an industrial accident. I regret having known them,” he says. It's mutual.
Later, it was Coluche's kids who attacked him. After greater than 20 years of proceedings, the Versailles Court of Appeal ordered the producer in 2019 to pay 15% of the royalties hooked up to the exploitation of 21 sketches (together with “Je me marre”, “L'Auto-Stoppeur” and “Le Schmilblick”), i.e. a sum of a couple of million euros.
A Pygmalion for 4 a long time, Paul Lederman regularly withdrew into the shadows with out one in every of his “sons” shining for him within the highlight. The period of the good impresarios was undoubtedly over.
* “They killed my record!” by Benjamin Petrover (revealed by First).
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