On a vu Pouvoir

"Power, there are those who don't know the album, those who bought it and those who listened to it. That makes three different categories." One of his first albums, released in the late 70s just before O gringo, which would bring Bernard Lavilliers to the mainstream with hits like Traffic or Stand the ghetto. An album that he is bringing back into the spotlight with a reissue accompanied by covers of Jeanne Cherhal, Feu! Chatterton and Fishbach with a mini-tour, starting from the Francofolies in La Rochelle and going to the Salle Pleyel in Paris in two weeks, via Le Parvis. It is also with the first song from Pouvoir that he opens the concert. A long and winding La Peur which sets the tone for a concept album staged like a concept concert. The audience (re)discovers the entire A-side, we are still in the era when albums had two sides, of this album with music between rock and fusion composed by Pascal Arroyo and François Bréant and lyrics in the form of an upper cut to the society in crisis of the late 70s that resonate with today's society. And little by little the songs from Pouvoir mix with songs from other albums, and the audience starts to sing, starting with an older one Les Aventures extraordinaires d'un billet de banque and the more recent and much better known Noir et Blanc, Stand the Ghetto or Traffic. A cocktail served with always the same commitment with an authenticity that creates a real bond with the audience, going so far as to talk again about his visit to the Parvis in 1978, at the time when he was preparing Pouvoir. A concert full of strength and sensitivity that seduced a Tarbes audience that ended up standing.