Léo Ferré
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| Léo Ferré | |
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 Léo Ferré (at left), in April 1985. |
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| Born | 24 August 1916 Monaco |
| Died | 14 July 1993 (aged 76) Castellina in Chianti, Italy |
| Genres | Chanson Symphonic |
| Occupations | French singer-songwriter Writer Printer Conductor Radio Personality |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1946–1991 |
| Labels | Le Chant du Monde Odéon Barclay Records CBS RCA EPM La Mémoire et la Mer |
| Website | leo-ferre.com <FR> |
Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.
Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues. He moved from music-hall to orchestral music, breaking free from the traditional song structure during the 1970s, inventing his own musical territory, powerfully dramatic and unique. He also set to music several poems by the French poètes maudits, such as François Villon, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as French poets from the 20th century like Guillaume Apollinaire and Louis Aragon.
He took a central place in the French song world and is a prominent figure in this domain. He was involved in anarchism and worked with Radio Libertaire, an anarchist free radio broadcasting in Paris and around France. Along with Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, he is considered one of the greatest composers and writers of French songs.
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[edit] Discography
Excludes numerous compilations.
[edit] Studio albums
- 1953: Chansons
- 1953: Paris canaille
- 1954: Le Piano du pauvre
- 1956: s/t
- 1957: Les Fleurs du mal
- 1957: La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, de Guillaume Apollinaire
- 1958: Encore du Léo Ferré !
- 1960: Paname
- 1961: Les Chansons d'Aragon
- 1961: Les Chansons interdites… et autres
- 1962: La Langue française
- 1964: Ferré 64
- 1964: Verlaine et Rimbaud (2×LP)
- 1966: 1916-19…
- 1967: Cette chanson (la Marseillaise)
- 1967: Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire (2×LP)
- 1969: L'Été 68
- 1969: Les Douze Premières Chansons de Léo Ferré
- 1970: Amour Anarchie (2×LP)
- 1971: La Solitude
- 1972: La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, de Guillaume Apollinaire
- 1972: Léo Ferré in italiano/La Solitudine
- 1973: Il n'y a plus rien
- 1973: Et… basta !
- 1974: L'Espoir
- 1975: Ferré muet
- 1976: Je te donne
- 1977: La Frime
- 1977: La Musica mi prende come l'Amore
- 1979: Il est six heures ici et midi à New York
- 1980: La Violence et l'Ennui
- 1982: Ludwig - L'Imaginaire - Le Bateau ivre (3×LP)
- 1983: L'Opéra du pauvre (4×LP)
- 1985: Les Loubards
- 1987: On n'est pas sérieux quand on a dix-sept ans (2×LP)
- 1990: Les Vieux copains
- 1991: Une saison en enfer
[edit] Live Albums
- 1955: Récital Léo Ferré à l'Olympia
- 1958: Léo Ferré à Bobino
- 1961: Récital à l'Alhambra (& à l'A.B.C.)
- 1969: Récital en public à Bobino 1969 (2×LP)
- 1973: Seul en scène (Olympia 72) (2×LP)
- 1984: Léo Ferré au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (3×LP)
- 2006: Léo Ferré au Théâtre libertaire de Paris (1986, 1988, 1990) (Box set)
[edit] Posthumous releases
- 1998: La Vie d'artiste: les années Le Chant du Monde 1947-1953 (2×CD)
- 2000: Métamec
- 2000: Le Temps des roses rouges
- 2001: Sur la scène (Lausanne 73, live) (2×CD)
- 2001: Un chien à Montreux (Montreux 73, maxi CD, live)
- 2004: De sacs et de cordes
- 2004: Maudits soient-ils ! (2×CD)
- 2006: La Mauvaise Graine
- 2008: Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Léo Ferré Official site
- Vinyl discography (French)
- Recording of the unique interview with Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, 6 January 1969] (French)
- Pays-Âges de Léo Ferré a gallery of places and people in Ferré's life (French)
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