Alain Pacadis

Important figure of the Parisian nightlife from the early 70s to the mid 80s, Alain Pacadis is best known for his weekly nightclubbing chronicles in daily "Libération" and monthly "L'écho des savanes", "Palace Magazine" or "Façade". The wasted nightclubber who shared a sense of ugliness with Serge Gainsbourg spent his life on sex, drugs and rock'n roll (and nothing else), becoming an edgy hero of the Parisian jet-set, mostly during the Palace night-club era (roughly, the french Studio 54), i.e. 1978-1983. Alain Pacadis was also the first journalist to predict the rise of the punk movement, and was a frequent interviewer and subsequently friend of Iggy Pop, Andy Warhol, Philippe Garrel, Serge Gainsbourg, Nico, Elli Medeiros & Lio. Living from hand-to-mouth, hardly the sort of people one associated with, he was usually dirty as hell and always begging for money, but he was however a very touching and moving character. Murdered by his young lover who strangled him to "exorcise the despair that was haunting him", Alain Pacadis got a very crowded funeral, with personalities such as Serge Gainsbourg, Catherine Ringer, Fred Chichin, Nicoletta, Hervé Vilard, Georges Moustaki, Jackie Berroyer, Tina Aumont in attendance.