Palais des congrés à Paris, il est 21 h ce samedi 23 juin 2007. Grace à Julian Schnabel qui nous a donné ses places parcequ'il devait partir à Milan pour l'exposition Versace, j'occupe le siège N°08. Lou Reed apparaît dans le décor de papiers peints de Schnabel. Il chante Berlin.

In Berlin, by the wall you were five foot ten inches tall It was very nice candlelight and Dubonnet on ice

We were in a small cafe you could hear the guitars play It was very nice it was paradise

You're right and I'm wrong hey babe, I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day

Oh, you're right and I'm wrong you know I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day One sweet day

In a small, small cafe we could hear the guitars play It was very nice candlelight and Dubonnet on ice

Don't forget, hire a vet he hasn't had that much fun yet It was very nice hey honey, it was paradise

You're right and I'm wrong oh babe, I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day You're right, oh, and I'm wrong you know I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day One sweet day

One sweet day, one sweet day oh, one sweet day One sweet day, baby-baby, one sweet day one sweet day, one sweet day

Il aura fallu 35 ans pour que la version scènique de ce chef-d'oeuvre voit enfin le jour. Stephane Davet, dans son article explique pourquoi

Pendant tout le spectacle, je repense à ce qui s'était passé en 1973, à ce journaliste de Roling Stone qui avait écrit : c'est " le disque le plus déprimant de la décennie ", à ce phénomène qui saisit parfois la critique et la conduit, face à une oeuvre, à se livrer aux instincts grégaires et prédateurs d'une meute.

Devant ce jeune homme de 65 ans, sa sérénité, sa puissance intacte, je me dis qu'il devait avoir une résistance particulière. Est-ce parcequ'à 17 ans, ses parents l'avaient livré aux électrochocs recommandés par un psychiatre pour le guérir de ses tendances homosexuelles? Il en parle dans Kill your sons

All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electric shock they said they'd let you live at home with mom and dad instead of mental hospitals But every time you tried to read a book you couldn't get to page 17 'cause you forgot where you were so you couldn't even read

Don't you know they're gonna kill your sons don't you know gonna kill, kill your sons They're gonna kill, kill your sons until they run-run-run-run-run-run-run, run away

Mom informed me on the phone she didn't know what to do about dad he took an axe and broke the table aren't you glad you're married And sister, she got married on the Island and her husband takes the train he's big and he's fat and he doesn't even have a brain

They're gonna kill your sons don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons Don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons until they run away

Creedmore treated me very good but Paine Whitney was even better and when I flipped out on PHC I was so sad, I didn't even get a letter All of the drugs that we took it really was lots of fun but when they shoot you up with thorazine on crystal smoke you choke like a son of a gun

Don't you know they're gonna kill your sons don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons Don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons until they run-run-run-run-run-run, run away

Aprés le spectacle, nous sommes allé le voir dans sa loge. Il était assis dans un petit canapé avec Marianne Faithfull. Angie a parlé avec eux. A sa façon de la regarder, je me suis dit que les électrochocs pouvaient avoir un effet à retardement.