While he was a guest on the set of “C L’Hebdo”, Nagui also looked back on the highlights of his cult show “Taratata”. The host said that one day, a famous singer had a monumental crisis backstage…
Nagui has sometimes witnessed improbable scenes during his broadcasts. Guest on the set of C L’Hebdoon France 5, he spoke on the return – controversial because without cows – of the game show Intercity. But the 63-year-old host also spoke about the heyday of his now cult musical show, Taratata… and in particular this crisis of a famous artist which he witnessed…
The day this artist “massacred his dressing room”: Nagui recounts
It must be said that in more than thirty years of existence – the show was launched in 1993 – Nagui has witnessed a number of iconic moments and met a host of international stars. Nagui did not hesitate to detail a memorable episode from 1996: the day when Lenny Kravitz “gone crazy” behind the scenes.
“Lenny Kravitz wasn’t happy with the sound feedback in his earpieces, so he went into his dressing room and he took apart the sink, the toilet, the mirror… He was mad with rage and he left the set saying: ‘I can’t I don’t want the show to be broadcast with that sound’ and it was the sound that he heard in his ears, which was from his technician, and not ours.he said.
“And the next day, I found myself in a very beautiful Parisian hotel, trembling, with the gang (…) waiting at 9 a.m. for him to arrive in a bathrobe (…) to watch his passage. And he really watched him with a poker face , no reaction on his face and sincerely deep down I say to myself ‘it’s dead’ That is to say, he is sullen, he massacred his dressing room, he barely said hello to me. when he arrived for watch the tape”then detailed Mélanie Page’s husband.
“He even came to the house”: Nagui and Lenny Kravitz became friends!
But contrary to what Nagui feared, Lenny Kravitz quickly changed his mood and the host was able to breathe: “Not only did he get up at the end and give me a hug (hug in English, editor’s note), but he told me ‘it’s perfect’. Since then, he has returned time and again (…) we have even maintained friendly ties, which is not the case with all artists. We saw each other again, we had dinner together, he even came to the house.”. Proof that the interpreter of Are You Gonna Go My Way, now 60 years old, is a complete man…
