DISAPPEARANCE – The musician replaced the leader of the comedy troupe, Gérard Rinaldi, from 1987 to 1997. A complete artist, he worked with Patrick Sébastien, Didier Barbelivien and Fabienne Thibeault.
At the end of the 1980s, the historic leader of the Charlots, Gérard Rinaldi, wanted to pursue a solo career. The famous group needs a luxury replacement to try to keep the group’s flame alive. It’s all found. His name is Richard Bonnot, a talented musician. Tuesday October 28, the imitator Gérald Dahan shared his “tremendous sadness” after learning of the disappearance of his 30-year-old friend and stage accomplice.
Richard Bonnot, born in 1957 in Montceau-les-Mines, joined Les Charlots in 1987 after devoting the first part of his career to music and singing. For the record, he notably participated in a historic TV show, Sunday clotheshosted by Léon Zitrone.
Pianist by Didier Barbelivien
For ten years, from 1987 to 1997, Richard Bonnot had the difficult task of making people forget Gérard Rinaldi, the soul of the Charlots since their creation in 1966. He wrote the first song “distributed” in pharmacy, with schoolboy humor, titled So that love doesn’t fadea text sponsored by the condom brand Mannix. The title comes out, and this is not a detail, in the heart of the AIDS epidemic at the end of the 1980s. He will also participate in the film The Return of the Charlots in 1992, directed by the historical Charlot Jean Sarrus, which unfortunately was a flop.
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Attached to the group, the musician will return one last time in 2014 during a final attempt at reformation with Jean Sarrus and Jean-Guy Fechner. Richard Bonnot was very popular in the world of entertainment. He had worked with Patrick Sébastien on the show Amazing and funny before becoming Didier Barbelivien’s pianist. The two famous acrobats paid him a vibrant tribute.