NILSSON: the true one: The True One in magazine

The True One

The True One, that’s the title of a great article in a brand new issue of a French music magazine (or bookzine) called MUZIQ where Harry’s career is told over 10 pages.

Very nice and complete, it tells everything you must know about Harry from his first records, Spotlight on Nilsson, Pandemonium Shadow Show... until his last works and the box set RCA Albums Collection included 17 CDs.

It begins like this: "Harry Nilsson fait partie de ces chanteurs que tout le monde connaît sans vraiment le savoir. Durant les dix années qui ont vu paraître ses albums les plus marquants, il n’aura eu de cesse de brouiller les pistes et de se dérober à l’emprise de l’industrie du disque.

Son parcours, atypique et chaotique, est jalonné d’éclairs de génie et de descentes aux enfers. Le sort a voulu que le grand public ne se souvienne d’Harry Nilsson que pour deux de ses nombreuses reprises (Everybody’s Talkin et Without You). Souvenons-nous de Nilsson, The True One."

Translation: "Harry Nilsson is one of those singers that everyone knows without really knowing it. During the ten years that have seen his most memorable albums, he has never ceased to scramble the tracks and to shirk the grip of the record industry.

His path, atypical and chaotic, is dotted with flashes of genius and descents to hell. Fate wanted the public to remember Harry Nilsson only for two of his many covers (Everybody's Talkin and Without You).
Remember Nilsson, The True One."

Playing guitar in studio during reharsals for his debut album Pandemonium Shadow Show in Summer 1967

Having a walk in Central Park in 1968 during his second album Aerial Ballet recording sessions

Harry at the piano (1972)

I’m sure it will help Harry getting best known in France, a country where he is not among the most popular artists. People do know some of the most famous songs but, in most of the time, can’t put a name on it.