Wednesday, June 22, 2022

⭐โ„๐”ธโ„™โ„™๐• ๐”น๐•€โ„๐•‹โ„๐”ป๐”ธ๐•, โ„•๐•€โ„‚๐•†๐•ƒ๐”ธ!‼๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅ‚⭐


๐Ÿ”นHi soulmates๐Ÿ”น
today is another reason to celebrate.
๐Ÿ”น๐‘ต๐’Š๐’„๐’๐’๐’‚ ๐‘บ๐’Š๐’“๐’Œ๐’Š๐’”, ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’๐’•๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’†๐’๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‘๐’๐’‘ ๐’“๐’๐’„๐’Œ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’†๐’˜ ๐’˜๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’…๐’๐’„๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’†, ๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’๐’” ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ‘ ๐’š๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’๐’….๐Ÿ”น

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⭐โ„๐”ธโ„™โ„™๐• ๐”น๐•€โ„๐•‹โ„๐”ป๐”ธ๐•, โ„•๐•€โ„‚๐•†๐•ƒ๐”ธ!‼๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ’ฅ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅ‚⭐


Placebo fans know him and his band because of “๐๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ฐ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ”, Brian's collaboration with ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐จ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ. There are three versions of the song, two of them feature Mr. Molko and were released on the album ”Alice & June Limited edition" in December 2005.

๐Ÿ”น๐ˆ๐ง๐๐จ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐–๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ˆ.
๐ŸŽถ https://bit.ly/3xKFtp3

๐Ÿ”น๐ˆ๐ง๐๐จ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐–๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ˆ๐ˆ.
๐ŸŽถ https://bit.ly/3zUEC7S


We already know that Nicola and Brian have a long-standing friendship.

๐Ÿ˜๐‚๐จ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐‹๐š๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐š ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ช๐ฎ๐จ๐ญ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐๐ข๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐š ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ฌ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง:
๐Ÿ”น๐Ÿ’ฌ "๐˜–๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ก๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜‘๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ 1999, ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜™๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜“๐˜ฆ́๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต. ๐˜๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด. ๐˜๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด, ๐˜ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ, ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ค, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ด ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜Œ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต'๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ (๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ). ๐˜๐˜ฆ'๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ. ๐˜ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด...๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ญ."
(๐™ฝ๐š’๐šŒ๐š˜๐š•๐šŠ ๐š‚๐š’๐š›๐š”๐š’๐šœ - ๐š๐™พ๐™ฒ๐™บ ๐™ผ๐™ฐ๐™ถ - ๐š—°๐Ÿผ๐Ÿท, ๐™น๐šŠ๐š—. ๐Ÿธ00๐Ÿผ)

How do you like Nicola's words, dear soulmates? I am very happy that Laetitia managed to find it just today ...๐Ÿคฉ

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⭐๐’๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐š ๐š ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ:
Nicolas Henri Didier Sirchis, better known as Nicola Sirkis, was born on June 22nd 1959 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine in France.
Nicola is the leader and the only original member of the band Indochine, which he founded in 1981. His twin Stephane played with him almost from the beginning, but after years of fighting drug addiction he died in 1999 of hepatitis C.
Nicola still has an elder brother named Christophe.

๐Ÿ’ฅ๐‹๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐จ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐›๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ซ.๐Ÿ’ฅ
On that occasion, in May 2022, they sold out the Stade de France in Paris, where 97,000 people came with them to celebrate this anniversary.
Here you can see that Nicola is still in great shape even at his age... The French love their Indochine... and certainly not just them.๐Ÿฅฐ
๐Ÿ”น๐ŸŽฌ https://bit.ly/3n8qHU8


Up to now the band has released 13 studio albums, a good number of live albums and compilations and more than 50 singles. They have sold over ten million records which makes them one of the best selling French bands.

In 1992 Nicola released the solo album “Dans la Lune“ on which he covered some of his favourite songs in French or English. He is also the author of the collection of short stories called "Les Mauvaises Nouvelles" that was published in 1998.


⭐Nicola is a great fighter against discrimination, racism and homophobia.
In his texts he writes about tolerance and understanding.
He helps victims of school bullying and fights against it. Related to this is a video clip for his single ๐Ÿ”น๐—–๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—•๐—ผ๐˜†๐Ÿ”น from 2013, which caused a big stir.
It's a very cruel video, but it's definitely worth seeing.
๐Ÿ”น๐ŸŽฌ https://bit.ly/3NdmXeO

⭐Nicola also supports LGBT community rights organizations.
It's amazing that right on the band's official website below you will find links to many of the organizations we usually know, such as ๐‘จ๐’Ž๐’๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’š ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’‚๐’, ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’š ๐‘จ๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’”๐’• ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’Ž๐’๐’‘๐’‰๐’๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’‚, ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’†๐’†๐’๐’‘๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’†, ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’†๐’† ๐‘ป๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•, but also to ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’†๐’๐’„๐’‰ ๐’Š๐’๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’•๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’…๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’”๐’Ž, ๐’˜๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’'๐’” ๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š, ๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’–๐’†๐’๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐’‚๐’Š๐’… ๐’Š๐’ ๐’—๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’” ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’•๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’๐’…, ๐’„๐’–๐’“๐’“๐’†๐’๐’•๐’๐’š ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ผ๐’Œ๐’“๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’†.

Below I'm sharing parts of two interviews with Nicola from 2020 because they perfectly capture what has influenced his character.
Enjoy reading, dear soulmates, and feel free to write if you enjoyed getting to know this exceptional human being.

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๐Ÿ”น๐Ÿ’ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐จ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐’๐ฐ๐ž๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ – ๐๐ข๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐š ๐’๐ข๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‹๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐  ๐ƒ๐š๐ก๐ฅ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐  ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ๐ž๐

๐Ÿ”น.../***/ ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘–๐‘” 40๐‘กโ„Ž ๐ด๐‘›๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘› 2021, ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ?


- No, I actually sat down by myself. I’m very lucky that the band trusts me when it comes to bigger plans and visions for the band. 

I wanted to get away from the classic ”album release followed by an album tour” thinking, so with the 40th Anniversary of the band – which is totally crazy by the way – coming up, I thought about some sort of collection of what we have done so far. 

In the past I’ve been a bit skeptical of compilations. For example I’ve seen the blue and the red compilation albums by The Beatles and always thought ”how can you sum up a band’s career on just one or two compilations?”.
But this time I thought ”why not try it?”.

๐Ÿ”น๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘™๐‘’ ”๐‘๐‘œ๐‘  ๐ถ๐‘’́๐‘™๐‘’́๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ ”? 


- It was a bit strange this time, because now all the focus was on just one song that would be put on a compilation of almost only number one hits from the past. Usually we work with a lot of different songs at once.



๐Ÿ”น๐‘Œ๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› 2015 ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ 100 ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ”13”. ๐ท๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก?


- I do write a lot of songs and I think I got to 66 songs for the ”13” album. So quite a lot of the song ideas end up in the trash bin.

๐Ÿ”น๐ด๐‘  ๐‘†๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘Ž ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘œ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ”๐‘๐‘œ๐‘  ๐ถ๐‘’́๐‘™๐‘’́๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ ”. ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™?
- Yes, and Greta is really one of the… no, she’s the best thing that has happened for youths in the world today.

๐Ÿ”น๐ผ๐‘ก’๐‘  ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ . ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘›? 


- We’ve been lucky here in Europe that we’ve been able to live and be creative in very secure and comfortable democracies. However, a risk with democracies is that we open up to lies and to people who lies. This is very clear nowadays when it comes to people like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. 

For many years I mainly stayed as an observer of all this but lately it has become more important for me to also speak up. 

The video for ”College Boy”, which is about homophobia and bullying, got a very strong response. A lot of young people got in touch with us to say it strengthened them and gave them courage to go out in the world with their heads held high.
๐Ÿ”น๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ́๐—น๐—ฒ́๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ official video
๐Ÿ”น๐ŸŽฌ https://bit.ly/3QHcjQc
(๐š๐šŽ๐š•๐šŽ๐šŠ๐šœ๐šŽ ๐™ผ๐šž๐šœ๐š’๐šŒ ๐™ผ๐šŠ๐š๐šŠ๐šฃ๐š’๐š—๐šŽ, ๐™ฐ๐šž๐š๐šž๐šœ๐š ๐Ÿธ0๐Ÿธ0)

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๐Ÿ”น๐Ÿ’ฌ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ ๐–๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ข๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐š ๐’๐ข๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ฌ

๐Ÿ”น๐‘‡๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘… ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘?
This is the first time we have written a song on its own I mean without a complete album project. I'm always worried when a new record is released.

๐Ÿ”น๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘?
My 40 years of life within the band and going through all the different changes that happened in the world.

๐Ÿ”น๐‘‡๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ...
Things are very simple to be honest: when we arrive at the studio for a session, we just get going and let it go naturally and improvise as we go along, this is why it is always so magical when we go into a studio. It is just so natural for us to put a song together.

๐Ÿ”น๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘™, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’?
I would say a bird, more specifically a seagull as I love the idea of them having complete freedom to travel when and where they like.

๐Ÿ”น๐ท๐‘’๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘ …
Let’s say: dream, pop, rock, energetic, emotional.

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๐Ÿ”น๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›?
No doubt, Diamond Dogs by David Bowie.
.../***/
๐Ÿ”น๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š?
Aladdin Sane by David Bowie.

๐Ÿ”น๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘›?
Prince and his “love sexy tour” in Paris.

๐Ÿ”น๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘ ?
Never stop, No breaks, always up to date, always looking ahead of the next tour and new technologies.

๐Ÿ”น๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š?
Patti Smith. I'm a huge fan.

๐Ÿ”น๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘?
The most beautiful love song.

๐Ÿ”น๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘ฆ?
The Cure, Depeche Mode and U2 ... all are considered as the survivors of the 80s.

๐Ÿ”น๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘—๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’?
John Lennon

๐Ÿ”น๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’?
Heroes by David Bowie

๐Ÿ”น๐‘†๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘™๐‘š ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข?
Timothee Chalamet
(๐™ป๐šŠ๐š—๐šŒ๐šŠ๐šœ๐š‘๐š’๐š›๐šŽ ๐šƒ๐š’๐š–๐šŽ๐šœ, ๐™น๐šž๐š—๐šŽ ๐Ÿธ0๐Ÿธ0)

Photo credit pic 1: Photo credit: Nicola Sirkis by Stรฉphane Ridard, Brian and Nicola by Carole Epinette, screenshot from recording of Pink Water / edit by Marti

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