Charly Garcia: “Sexually well, economically pulling and emotionally as you can”

One day before his 70th birthday, Charly García spoke with Roberto Petinatto for his radio program “Genio o idiota” and talked about his present, his connection with his fans, landed in the virtual world and told some anecdotes with music greats such as the Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. the musician confessed that “he can’t go out on the street” without being intercepted by his fans: “They tell me things like: ‘Without you, I wouldn’t have existed,'” he said. “‘And what is my fault?’ you deciles,’ Pettinato suggested. “Yes, I tell you that,” Charly agreed.
“Listen to me, so they don’t ask me anymore, can you talk to the country and say how you are?” joked the host and the interviewee released a funny response: “Sexually well, economically pulling and emotionally as you can,” Charly replied paraphrasing Mick Jagger.Later, the musical idol revealed that his new album will be called “The Logic of the Scorpion” and asked about its meaning he provided another answer faithful to his provocative style:  “There’s no logic, it’s luck” and compared his reflection to one by Woody Allen: “Most people don’t realize how important it is to be lucky. Luck is more important than a lot of boludeces that you think will come out as they think,” said Charly.Then he celebrated reaching the same age as the Rolling Stones and being able to live the end of the pandemic: “It gives me peace, because if Keith Richards is alive, I stay calm,” Charly said of the return of the English band despite the recent death of his drummer Charlie Watts with whom he recalled a anecdote.

A young Roberto Petinatto with Charly García

“Charlie was playing his eternal rhythm. It was incredible. Once I was with them in the same place, I went to where the food was, I took a piece of something that I don’t know what the fuck it was and he said, ‘You must be important,'” she recalled. Then, together with Petinatto, they talked about the age of other musicians such as The Betales or Bob Dylan and about the latter he provided a peculiar comparison: “I am the same as Bob Dylan, but I lack the 900 green sticks that he has on the bench,” he added and provoked the laughter of the host and the panelists of the Pop Radio program. “I was always famous myself, since I can remember I always noticed that something was happening. At one point I said, ‘Am I crazy or am I famous?’ If I was crazy I would have been interned, so I must be famous,” he joked.

Asked by Tamara Petinatto if being famous has a “horrible” part, the musician provided an ingenious statement: “And it depends, if you are famous and they hate you, I don’t know, it must be horrible,” he said and took charge of the affection he receives and received from his audience through all the decades in which he dedicated himself to music.

Original source in Spanish