Michel Polnareff has entered the legend as his daily life is out of the same. The 80 -year -old singer can boast of having spent an extended stay in a famous palace. He should have lasted two weeks … he stretched for 800 days!
Entrenched behind his emblematic white and rectangular glasses, Michel Polnareff is a character as charismatic as mysterious. But did you know that the singer had spent more than two years being locked in a famous Parisian palace?
Michel Polnareff, confined 800 days in a Parisian palace
Michel Polnareff made a (very) long stay at the Royal Monceau, a five -star hotel located a stone’s throw from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Installed in this palace in 1989, initially for two weeks, it will finally have passed it … 800 days! “From September 1989, he lived for eight hundred days at the Royal Monceau hotel, where he recorded the album Kâmâ Sutrâ with the help of Ben Rogan in production and Mike Oldfield on guitar”explain our colleagues from Parisian.
Besides, a truck came to park every day in front of his hotel and the sounds of his album were therefore made only in the palace where for example was recorded the tube Goodbye Marilou. A recipe that succeeded in Michel Polnareff and his record company since the album has passed in more than 200,000 copies, thus becoming a gold record.
Why didn’t Michel Polnareff move for 800 days?
At the time, the singer, now 80 years old, would not have left the room 128 during these two years! In question? His state of health. The interpreter of Letter to France had a cataract in both eyes and had trouble seeing something other than light sources. “He had a panic fear of becoming blind. And therefore a panic fear of being operated and being examined by a doctor. But if he was not operating, he lost his sight”said his friend Jean-René Mariani on the set of 8:30 p.m. on Saturday in 2021.
“”That’s why he didn’t want to move. He knew where he set foot, the steps. He could live as a blind blind man “he said. A long descent into hell to which the star ended in 1994 by agreeing to have both eyes. His luxury confinement ended in 1991.
