Tai-Luc, the singer of La Souris déglingué, is dead

“How many false hopes are there/In the hearts of youth?/How many Monday mornings are there/For cheap labor?/How many are there Monday mornings/For rock handlers? » The song by Tai-Luc, the leader of La Souris déglingué (LSD), the flagship group of the Parisian punk rock scene of the 1980s, took on the air of a funeral oration this weekend. With the death of its author, which occurred Friday 1^is December, at the age of 65, from a lung infection, a part of the history of French rock disappears.

The first time we met him was in 1983, in the winter night. At the “Frigos”, these old refrigerators on the side of the Tolbiac bridge, in Paris, then recycled into rehearsal places and artists’ studios. He and his friends had just released their second LP – it was still the age of vinyl, in other words Prehistory – he was playing the tough guy and happily pulling the devil by the tail. “Mr. Assedic, he is a friend of mine”, he said, boastfully, in his black jacket. He was 25 years old.

Thirty-five years later, we found his smirk under the plane trees of the Quai de Gesvres in Paris. A Cambodian krama tied on the now bald head of the former skinhead, a buttock resting on a stool, in front of his four second-hand bookseller’s boxes: some eight linear meters of second-hand books, rare and even more sought-after commodities. He had the same falsely absent air, truly attentive, the same dissipated speech behind the impassioned facade.

On my mother’s side, of Ch’tis and Breton origins, a communist family. The father is a Parisian titi who arrived from Cochinchina in 1939. She is a shorthand typist, he was a wine representative, a security guard in an arms factory, and runs a gym in the Latin Quarter. He was even a movie star – in a Vietnamese film shot in the Camargue, which the son would discover sixty years later: Why should I say this?by Pham Van Nhan (The Justice of Men1954). ” My father ? A sort of Alain Delon », confided his only and late son. Looking at him, we said to ourselves that it was undoubtedly true.

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Nguyen Tan Tai-Luc was born on August 10, 1958, in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine). He was 14 when his parents separated. He will move many times, scouring the suburbs as he changes homes. “Depending on who I talk to, when I want to reassure, I talk about the Hoche high school, in Versailles, where I passed my baccalaureate, or otherwise, about Sarcelles [Val-d’Oise]of which I know all the codes »he said shamelessly.

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