William - William Sheller autobiography

Everyone knows his hits, William Sheller is a classical musician, a man of orchestration. And William is a symphony written by Sheller. A childhood marked by a secret, the identity of his father, and a double rooting: the Paris of the 50s, of 4 CVs, and the America of Cadillacs. Indeed, his mother, Paulette, fell in love with an American who worked in jazz clubs: a long stay in Ohio, a two-hour drive from Michigan, where William's natural father lived, unbeknownst to him at the time. An obvious predisposition for music and the piano. A musical education provided by Yves Margat, a master of harmony and student of Gabriel Fauré. And then the influence of English pop music. His first auditions, the worldwide success of My Year is a Day, for which he composed the music, his meeting with Barbara, for whom he worked and lived, and then a wife and two children. The life of a family man and a showbiz star who knows how to choose his friends: crazy expeditions with Nicoletta and Patrick Juvet to Trouville, intense relationships with Catherine Lara and Joe Dassin, lighter ones with Carlos. A geography zigzagging between Paris, the provinces and abroad. Crazy nights, cocaine, sexual ambiguity. It's a fast-moving life, studded with stars and fallen stars. And a work admired by every generation, from Véronique Sanson to Jeanne Cherhal.

Second-hand book in very good condition (language : french).

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