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Bernie Bonvoisin
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Bernie Bonvoisin first rose to prominence as a singer and author of the French hard rock group Trust. The lyrics written by Bernie Bonvoisin for Trust are marked by a certain aggressiveness, a rejection of bourgeois mentalities and repression. The texts of some songs join the libertarian critics, denouncing the abuses of democracy (The Great Illusion), the failings of the capitalist system which crushes the workers (The Savage), the extreme right (The junta), the violence of communism Soviet (The brutes), the sects (The sects) and in general all the liberticidal ways of our society. They are sometimes marked by a certain sexual provocation (Le matteur).
In June 1979, the title Darquier attacked the far-right journalist Louis Darquier de Pellepoix (who died 14 months after the release of the disc), openly anti-Semitic and collaborator of the Nazi occupiers during the Second World War and, through him, to those who made the same choice without being worried until their death. Despite the importance of the subject, "Darquier" only came out as the B side of the 45 rpm Le matteur (sometimes in "redacted version" 1). This song will not be released again until 1992 on the Live album.
Another frankly political title, Monsieur Comédie, is a song which denounces the aid and political asylum provided by the French authorities to Rouhollah Khomeini, hosted with his entourage in Neauphle-le-Château between 1978 and February 1979 (asylum that the future Ayatollah apparently did not ask: he only had a tourist visa), while he was preparing his own conception of the Iranian Revolution, started by others, with other ideas. His return to Iran will soon make him a great "torturer" and the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, after having confiscated the Iranian Revolution and instituted a regime of terror.
Misère denounces the reactionary and anti-social policies of Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1979.
Bernie's words are frankly left and give an air of revolt to a whole generation crushed by the political power of the time (Antisocial). For example, Trust has repeatedly mentioned the case of Jacques Mesrine, describing him as a man rejected in criminality by the repressive society, while denouncing the conditions of detention in French prisons and the spirit of a system in which everything is made to exclude "the one who does not walk in the row", by singing a text written by Mesrine himself (Le mitard).
However, during the campaigns preceding the 2007 presidential election, he called for a majority vote in favor of Ségolène Royal, a candidate for the Socialist Party, essentially to prevent the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, thus contrasting with his past words, without concessions.
Bernie Bonvoisin's singing style is rather shouted in the punk way, of which he is one of the pioneers in France; Besides, Trust is defined as a hard rock band with a singer with a punk ideology, but it is closer to blues rock and, at the same time, a big fan of AC / DC. He has a friendship relationship with Bon Scott, the singer of AC / DC, to whom he dedicates a piece of blues after his accidental death on February 19, 1980 during a joint tour (Your last act). The two musicians are sometimes compared by the English-speaking press as an alter ego to each other. The AC / DC song Ride On, which originally appeared on the 1976 LP Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, was recorded by Trust for the album of the same name.
His third solo album, Dangerous Embrace, released in 1993, met with little success. Johel Bernard, who produced the album (recorded in West Orange, New Jersey), lost 5 million francs.
In 2006, he composed an album with Moho Chemlekh, former guitarist of Trust, under the name Kollectif AK47. This meeting which could have marked his return to the song finally came to an end, while a tour of 7 dates was planned in France. To everyone's surprise and despite the criticism that erupted from 1983, reproaching the author and the group for losing their verve and settling down, Trust reformed for a unique concert and an album recorded in public. The magic worked again and the bulldozer hit the road. But the craze was quickly tarnished by the suspicion of purely commercial aims of Sony Music Entertainment, Trust and AC / DC (which the members of both groups denied), due to the release of the Live albums of Trust and Live the same year. of AC / DC.
The bitter criticisms expressed by Bernie Bonvoisin and Trust are not lacking: against totalitarianism, repression, violence exercised by States against others (The Brutes) or its own population (H & D), unequal policies or even dangerous stupidity.
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