Bernard Lenoir

Bernard Lenoir (born September 13 1946), also known as the French John Peel, is a radio personality, specializing in independent rock. His program, directed by Michelle Soulier, is broadcast in the evenings (10:00-11:00pm) on France Inter.

He was born in Algeria, which he left in 1962, working at Côte d'Azur where he served as a DJ. He is a singer in the surf pop group Menton: "Les Radis Beurre". Their only single is today lost to time. ["Best" n°122, avril 1987)] Lenoir began on France Inter as a music programmer on José Artur's "Pop-Club". He worked through the late 1970s presenting the rock program "Feedback", and continued on with it into the 1980s. One of his most remembered broadcasts in this period was on December 18 1979, an airing of a Joy Division concert from Bains-Douches.

The program was cancelled after one season and Lenoir transferred to Europe 1. He also appeared on the television program "Les Enfants du rock".

With the launching of the magazine "Les Inrockuptibles", the presenter acquired the eternal trust of his audience, and created a program in which he found his true style of "music unlike all others", and his greatest audience. The broadcast lent its name to the magazine. Currently, his radio program is called "C'est Lenoir" ("This is Lenoir").

ee also

* C'est Lenoir
* John Peel
* Hugo Cassavetti
* Yves Thibord
* Jean-Daniel Beauvallet
* Michka Assayas
* Ivan Smagghe
* Lydie Barbarian

References

External links

* [http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/cestlenoir Site de l'émission "C'est Lenoir"]
* [http://www.m-la-music.net/article.php3?id_article=286 Article de présentation sur le site « M la Music »]
* [http://routedurock.free.fr/blenoir.html Biographie chronologique du parrain de la Route du rock]

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NAME = Lenoir, Bernard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Radio personality
DATE OF BIRTH = September 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH = Algeria
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