Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4

Starmania/Tycooon

Complete English version

Mogador 1993/4

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4

ACT 1

OVERTURE

THIS IS OUR CITY (Monopolis)

MJ Well we finally won, took the barricades downNo more East-West divide, no more African painAnd the whole world is wiser nowAnd our place in the sun is a typical townWhere we’re all on one side, where no conflicts remainAnd the whole world is Western nowWe are all we hope to beWe’re wealthy, sheltered, equal, freeImmune to any culture shock, Round the clockAnd round the world the same ideasThe same designs and hopes and fearsWe are all we hope to beThis is our futureIt’s all we need, it’s all we knowBeyond our life, another glowWhere further millions come and goWe flicker gently to and froSafe, here in the heart of our city

SOMETHING’S GOING ON….. (Il se passse quelque chose a Monopolis)

La foule There’s something going on in MonopolisAn infiltration by degreeThere's taste of sweat in the conditioned airAnd tiny glitch in the neon glareThere’s something going on in MonopolisThis model town, this perfect townWhich is built to last and built to serveThe highest point of the learning curveThe canonisation of the normThe triumph of the uniformThere’s something going on in MonopolisLet spirits fly ~~~~That seeps into our ordered calmThe ignorance, ingratitudeWe cannot have perfection screwedThere’s something going on in MonopolisThere’s something going on in Monopolis

ZJ We cannot have perfection screwedA LITTLE DAMAGE DONE (Quand on arrive en ville)

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4S Oh yeah

You'd think we'd got no causeTo kick against the pricksTo mess with politicsTo tear this sucker downNo need to settle scoresWhen we are not deprivedWhen we have all survivedThis bloody perfect townBut no…We're cocky on the boulevardsA little damage done

JR A little damage doneA little harm to doBefore the night is throughBefore this battle's wonAnd when we hit the streetMade up with shining hateThe narrow and the straightAre skipping to our beatOh yeahStriking on the boulevardsA little damage done

JR/S Hey!Since we're the stuff of lifeWe've had enough of lifeNagging us, dragging us, flagging us downHey!Don't want to wait for lifeDegenerate for lifeScrewing us, chewing us, spewing us out

JR A little damage doneA gesture from the guysThe ones who realizeThe ending has begunA knife that goes astrayA minor scuffle hereA small explosion thereA tiny price to payFor life!We're shaking up the BoulevardsA little damage done

S We are the ones who careThe ones who mean to winThe ones who don't give inTo comfort or despair

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4JR And please remember this

In case of accidentThat we did not inventThis dead metropolisNot us!We did not build the boulevardsThe damage has been done!Huh!

S So get the stretchers outThe boys are moving inAnd anxious to beginThe evening's roustabout

JR/S It's gonna be a nightTo stay behind locked doorsOr else embrace the causeWe know you know we're right!And soBe careful on the boulevardsYour precious metal boulevardsWe’re tearing up the boulevardsA little damage done.YeahA little damage doneBe careful on the boulevardsWe’re tearing up the boulevardsA little damage done

NEWS (Scene 1)

RR From Tele-Capital in downtown Monopolis, this is Roger Roger.With a résumé of all the news that’s fit to use.First over to the sweetheart of Tele-Capital, Cristal.

C Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.Yet again the violent anarchist Étoiles Noires have added to their list of

pointless crimes against the state.RR The gang, armed to the teeth, to date have wrecked the subway cooling

p-p-p-plant,You want to use the trains? - You can’t.Another word coming from the sweetheart of Tele-Capital.

C And as election looms, of courseThe state must stamp out force with force

RR So we are very glad to report that the authorities have reacted speedily to tackle this highly unsatisfactory p-p-p-position

More details in our 7 o’clock transmission

MJ From time to time I kill the sound, let the pictures flicker onTo the noise of the bar till the last drinker’s gone

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4The things that I’ve heard, the things that I’ve seenAre stranger and truer than life on the screen

RR At an unexpected press conference which has had a devastating p-p-p-political impact, the tycoon Zéro Janvier, best known for the construction of the tallest building in the world, has officially announced he will run as a candidate in the presidential election.

Over to Cristal.

C As the undisputed leader of the Peoples Patriotic Party of Progress,Zéro Janvier is concerned principally with re-establishing government authority in the cities.

Here is a short extract from his speech:ZJ We have achieved the perfect world we craved

Where nature itself is under our control.A planet bent on self-destruction has been saved.We must not relax we still have a goal.

C And that is?ZJ And that is to remain masters of our fate

For hard though it is to believe there are stillThose not content with the art of the state.The must be contained, and I promise they will!

RR Another announcement has just been madeC Credited to the Étoiles NoiresRR Who are officially claiming responsibility for last night’s outrage.C A certain Johnny Rockfort has emerged as the front-man of these Étoiles

Noires.

MJ Ah Les Étoiles Noires I know just who they areThey are here every night in my anonymous barIt’s here that they plan every move every blowAnd led in their main by a woman they knowA radical child, an ex-daddy’s girlA cold blinkered view of the earthAnd you’d never guess, by manner or dressHer golden privileged birthHere she comesLook at her, Sadia

YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE (Travesti)

S When I'm coming out to playWhen I'm walking down the streetWhen I'm moving to the beatI give nothing awayWhen I'm slipping into bedWhen I'm throwing back the sheets

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4When I'm handing out the treatsI leave plenty unsaidI might be naked, wined and dinedI might fulfil your wildest dreamBut you might just as well be blindI'm not the easy touch I seemYou'd sell your very soul to keepWhat you think you’ve gotBut you make out then fall asleepBrothers, I do not! I do not -I stayIn controlKeep my nerveAs for you – why you -You get what you deserveCourtesan, mistress, nunVirgin, angel or a whoreI can be anyoneAny two three or forHooker, schoolgirl or saintAny number of ridesBut the boss man you ain'tI'm the one who decidesI'm the one who decidesYou deserve a girl like meYou deserve a little luckYou deserve a bit for freeYou deserve a nip and tuckYou deserve your fine romanceYou deserve your JulietYou won't get a second chanceYou deserve everything you getI don't agree with modern viewsThat only women bleedIf we just flatter, stroke and useWe get what we need, what we needWe stayIn controlKeep our nerveAs for you - you fools!You get what you deserveMother, sister or trampDebauchée, libertinePrimadonna or vampBaby doll or teenage queenUndefiled or a slutPerfect lady or bitchAll laid out for you but

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4I'm the one who says whichYou deserve a girl like meYou deserve a little luckYou deserve a bit for freeYou deserve a nip and tuckYou deserve your fine romanceYou deserve your JulietYou won't get a second chanceYou deserve everything you get! You deserve everything you get! You deserve what you getYou deserve a girl like meYou deserve everything you getYou deserve your fine romanceYou deserve what you getYou deserve a little luckYou deserve everything you get!

FLASHBACK/JOHNNY MEETS SADIA (Scene 2)

MJ The very first time she walked in to this little place of mineEverybody stopped and looked and Johnny’s goose was neatly cookedShe eased up to him slid all over himBut I knew in advance the poor guy had no chanceFlashback…

S Are you a bitter twisted youth who gave up thinking long ago?Well if you are not know the truthAs to why you’ve sunk so low

JR What do you mean I’ve sunk so low?S I can see discontent in your face

How you resent those who achieveHolding your grudges like grenades Wearing your envy on your sleeve

JR What do you mean we’ve sunk so low?S Show me I’m wrong you’ve got some spunk

Show me you’ve even half a brainShow me philosopher not funkMake me want to come here againMake you want to come here again

JR I can make you come whenever you want!S I want you to tell the world what you feel and what you do

I can give you a fewI want you to tell the world what we feel and what we doWe’re going to have a voice

MJ So Les Étoiles Noires were born, dedicated to destroying Zéro and hisestablishment

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4But how do you destroy something whose success is its lifelessness?How do you kill something already dead?But all the same, I wish them wellThere is a passion to be foundAnd while I’m waiting I’ll serve another round

WORKING GIRL (La complainte de la serveuse automate)

MJ I never planned my daily roundI've never loved the common taskI don't rebel, I don't acceptI've often laughed, I've often weptAn ordinary working girlThere was a man until he foundThe things that I began to askInvolved him a little moreThan what he came to see me forOh so naive the working girlOne day I'll show himAnd all the others tooOutgrow himI’ll have all that I'm dueVery soonWhere do I go until then?What do I do meantime?Back to the bar, I'm working lateOver and over againI tell myself that I'mHappy to stay here - I can wait.There are those who tell youNever let them tell youThis is all there is, foreverI do not believe themI shall have my momentAny moment now - or neverThe working girl is that and moreShe ticks away behind the maskShe wouldn't let her spirit dieThat does not mean she will not cryWhen all her dreams fly at the doorAn ordinary working girlWe never plan our daily roundWe never love the common taskBut we don't find survival oddSome call it luck, some call it GodI call it both feet on the groundAn ordinary working girlOne day I'll show them

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4And they'll all let me throughOutgrow themI'll have all that I'm dueVery soonWhere do I go until then?What do I do meantime?Back to the bar, I'm working lateOver and over againI tell myself that I'mHappy to stay here - I can wait.I know I'll have my extraordinary dayI will never hear those words againWorking girlOhWorking girl

STARMANIA (Scene 3)

RR And now the program that is number one with the young of all agesTop of all the ratingsStarmania presented by Cristal, the sweetheart of Tele-CapitalHer surprise guest today is Stella Spotlight, just in from ParisBut first Zéro Janvier, the leader of the Peoples Patriotic Party of Progress, the

PPPPCristal spoke to him in his offices in the Golden TowerWhere he has given us an exclusive, impassioned and fascinating interviewHere are some highlights:

INTERVIEW WITH ZÉRO JANVIER

C Zéro Janvier, you’re the man at the topYou drive ever onwards when others have stoppedWhat are the rules for such stunning success?

ZJ Believe in yourself, nothing more, nothing lessC But I still get letters from kids most days

They believe in themselves but need help on the wayZJ Relying on others is the worst thing you can do

For nobody helps you but youC But is that really what you feel?

Does not your heart or pulse conceal a little sympathy or grace?For just a moment drop your guard I know it’s strange I know it’s hardYou’re so frightened to lose faceBut if you can for once forgetThat you are not like us and letA little warmth into the place

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4I WOULD LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLD (Le blues de

businessman)

ZJ I've been on course since seventeenIt's who you know and where you've beenUntil it's you they want to knowI’ve learned the rule there are no rulesExcept that gentlemen are foolsI order principles to goThere is no secret to successAs long as others want it lessIt is not substance it is styleThere is no deal that can't be doneRetaliation can be funI never walk that extra mileI have acquired the winner’s touchOf seeming happy with so muchI can be honest if requiredI have succeeded and that's allBut then as far as I recallThat's really all that I desiredOh I would love to change the worldIt's many failings one by oneTo be the artist poet priestWho feels the battle can be wonOh I would love to fall in loveTo lose my heart, to lose controlTo break away, set rolling freeThe darkest secrets of my soulThe darkest secrets of my soulOh I would love to fall in loveTo feel my moment's just begunTo steal a march, to play for keepsTo break the mould, to jump the gunAs no-one else has ever doneOh I would love to fall in loveAnd give you all of me and moreI long to say that I believeIn words I've never used beforeIn words no lover used beforeOh I would love to change the worldOooAt least the world's not changing me.

SCENE 4

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4

RR Starmania will back in 3 minutesStella Spotlight will now talk to us about her fight to cure drug-crazed

adolescents, and about her new film in which she is luminous.

MJ Starmania, Starmania that’s not my kind of thingBut I know a boy who’d give the world to singJust once on Starmania

ZIGGY (Un garçon pas comme les autres)

MJ Ziggy, I call him ZiggyI'm so hot for himHe's not at all like all the restBut he's held out and he’s the bestEven if I knowHe would never go with meZiggy, they call him ZiggyI'm so sold on himAnd when I saw him that first dayI went and gave myself awayOh so indiscreetOh but he was sweet to meFour a.m., he's here by my sideTalking, laughing and making friends,Making fun of me tooHe can do whatever he wantsI don't mind, but he pretendsNot to see what I go throughZiggy, my crazy ZiggyI’m so weak for himHe lives a life that I can't shareI don't know why but I know whereOh it breaks my heartKnowing I'm not part of himWhy won't he try anything new?I would be his very bestAnd his first in many waysOh if I were one of his boysThin and languid and self-possessedSo in demand nowadays - ohZiggy, I call him ZiggyI ‘m so hot for himHe's not at all like all the restBut he's held out he’s the bestEven if I knowHe would never go with me

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4POLLUTION'S CHILD (Un enfant de la pollution)

Z I'm born and bred in pollution's gripFirst three weeks fed by the CO dripAin't no breastPassed the testI needed stronger stuffCarbon mon-Oxide onTap couldn't get enoughBy the time I was eightI passed my sell-by dateMy metal lungs never felt no painI ran around in the acid rainDrank and smokedNever chokedI was immune to dirtWhisky, ginPumped it inI never ever hurtGot a car, got aheadOn the road burning leadI'm happy as I amI dig this greenhouse scamAll summer on the beachAerosols in easy reachNeedles floating out to seaSunshine beats down on meNo ozone in my wayEvery day's a holidayIf I get bored with all the modern toysI got a Walkman for my private noiseMove around with the soundInject it into meIf I'm blueI just doAnother ten dbSony was heaven sentI'm in my elementYeahI'm a consumer therefore I consumeI buy a lot of things so gimme roomBeing greenAin't my sceneI need a parking spaceHello crackHello smackBye bye the human race

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4Gimme another shotGimme the best you gotThat's my credentials filedTruly pollution's child

MJ Bravo Bravo BravoYou’re numero uno

Z Once I get up there on the album chartsI'm gonna win myself a million heartsWhen they seeLittle meSaving the world tonightPious rageOn the stageTurn on your brightest lightThere go a million treesCovers for my CDsThat's my credentials filedTruly pollution's childYeah

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MJ Ziggy, what have you got there?Talk to me, show me

Z You wouldn’t really want to knowIt’s what I’ve written for that showI’m gonna be on Starmania

MJ What on earth are you going to say?Z Just a little about my lifeMJ What on earth are you going to say?

What life?Z Oh you don’t know the slightest thing

About my life, but one day soonThe world will know it all

MAMASVILLE (La chanson de Ziggy)

Z I used to lie in bed at nightWondering where I'd done right as mama's one delight

MJ Oh my precious little miteDon’t grow up don’t leave my sight

MJ/Z Don’t grow up don’t leave my sightZ And all the other boys my age

They weren't locked up in mama's cageThey were out running wildI was such a protected child

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4Don’t want my baby to get hurtMama said I didn’t need friendsMama warmly recommendsDelicate boys have safe pursuitsWear ballet tights not football bootsIt’s mama’s willIn MamasvilleShe used to try to make me playTchaicowski night and dayBut I loved David Bowie

MJ You changed your name and changed your lifeZ Wanting to be that Thin White Duc [inadvertent humour due to Ziggy’s broad

French accent. He means ‘Duke’, not ‘Duck’]MJ Changed your name and changed your life

Ziggy, ZiggyZ I ran away from Mamasville

I got away, I'm running stillI changed my life, I changed my name David Bowie – One : Tchaicowski – NilI’m gonna be a rock singerI’m gonna be a rock singerI’m gonna be a rock singerI’m gonna be a rock singer

Z I’m gonna be a rock singerMJ He wants Z I’m gonna be a rock singerMJ He wants Z I’m going, going, going be a rock…

No no no no no no no no no

Z I’m gonna be a rock singerMJ He wants Z I’m gonna be a rock singer

SCENE 6

S OK now pretty boy, you think that you’re a starJohnny, you can show him what it really means to be a rockerShow him exactly why you’re called Johnny Rockfort

JR Amateur freak shows, they’re not for me.S If anybody’s going to make noise on Starmania, well it won’t be you Ziggy,

more likely Johnny hereMJ But Ziggy’s got so much to giveS D’you hear what I just said

I'll call the pretty girl,That little bimbo head

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4Hey Cristal sharpen up and meet the real thingThe world will know it allDon’t waste your brightest spot on pretty boys who sing

MJ ZiggyS I’m here to offer you an exclusive interview with Johnny Rockfort at the

Underground CafeJR Subway block 30 corridor BS It’ll be your greatest scoop

She couldn’t pass it up

JR What a break what a scoop she’ll be getting the truthZ But I got so much to giveJR What a break what a scoop she’ll be getting the truthMJ ZiggyZ I’m gonna be a rock singerS I’m gonna offer you an exclusive interview with Johnny Rockfort at the

Underground CaféMJ Ziggy, won’t you talk to me?Z I’m gonna be a rock singerS I’m gonna offer you an exclusive interview with Johnny Rockfort at the

Underground CaféMJ Ziggy, you’ve got so much to giveJR What a break what a scoop she’ll be getting the truthZ I’m gonna be a rock singerS I’m gonna offer you an exclusive interview with Johnny Rockfort at the

Underground CaféMJ Ziggy, won’t you talk to me?Z The greatest singer in the worldS I’m gonna offer you an exclusive interview with Johnny Rockfort at the

Underground CafeMJ Ziggy, you’ve got so much to giveTous I’m gonna be a rock singerMJ? Yeah, that’s it

CRYSTAL INTERVIEWS JOHNNY

RR Quiet in the studio please, Cameras rolling.

C Ladies and GentlemenWe got a treat tonightJohnny Rockfort the voice of the town alightWho for reasons that will soon be clearDoesn’t want his pretty face to appearJohnny Rockfort, everybody’s heard of youBut they don’t know what it is you’re trying to do They talk of you and terror in the same breathYou’re revelling in violence blood and deathJohnny Rockfort, tell us what’s been going down

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4The are millions watching you hit the townYou and your deciples are the cause I guessTell us what it is, they might hate you less.

JR We don’t mess with politicsWe don’t have some sacred goalBut we’re on the right road

C Johnny Rockfort, unemployed and out of sightWon’t you tell us in front of half the world tonight A bit about yourself so we can learnWhat it is that touches you and makes you burn?

NORTHERN SIDE (Banlieu nord)

JR My name’s Johnny RockfortOr that’s the name I useI come from the Northern sideOr from anywhere I chooseI grew up on the streetStreet’s a pretty hard schoolMama crazy father drunkThat’s a North Side story as a ruleI know you knowThat if you hang aroundBad towns, mean streetsDrugs your pleasure groundsYou’re gone You’re deadBefore you even get a voteIt’s quote the underclass unquote

Oh it’s such a common storyAnd oh so sadA most unnecessary storyAnd oh so sad

Sure they offer us jobsBut never offer a shareAnd keep the world the way it isMoney for the guy upstairsHere I got what I need Here friends tell me the truthOn the ground not on the crossStill a little spark of youth

I know you knowThat if you hang aroundBad towns, mean streetsDrugs your pleasure grounds

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4You’re gone You’re deadBefore you even get to scoreNo I ain't Northern Side no more

I know you knowThat if you hang aroundBad towns, mean streetsDrugs your pleasure groundsYou’re gone You’re deadBefore you even get to scoreNo I ain't Northern Side no moreI know you knowThat if you hang aroundBad towns, mean streetsDrugs your pleasure groundsI know you knowThat if you hang aroundBad towns, mean streetsDrugs your pleasure grounds

THE ABDUCTION OF CRISTAL

SCENE 7

RR We’ve been told by the organisers that there are 100,000 people hereThe opposition say 50,000But whatever the total a huge crowd has gathered in the Grand Stadium To listen to Zéro Janvier unveil his election p-p-p-programAnd Stella Spotlight is among the invited guests on the platform

ZÉRO’S CAMPAIGN (Discours electoral)

La foule Zéro Janvier, Janvier for presidentZéro Janvier, Janvier for presidentZéro Janvier, Janvier for president

ZJ In order to crush the terrorist diseaseThe steps I propose are quite simply thesea) a curfewb) travel restriction, andc) the banning of crowds of more than two or threeIn short I’m standing forA spell of marshal law

La foule Zéro Janvier, Janvier for president

ZJ My energy policy, as if you need to be told

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4Is frighteningly simple and dazzlingly boldInstead of continuing for all we are worthTo pillage our planet and ravage the EarthI’ll shift the human race; a capital in space!

La foule Zéro Janvier, Janvier for president

ZJ No longer will Third World dictators be our clienteleWe help them, they hate us, let them rot in hellMy enlightened views are why, in the end,You make me your president, your leader, your friend

We shall achieve the perfect world we craveWhere nature itself is under our controlA planet that from self-destruction will be safeWe must not relax we still have a goal

RR Ladies and gentlemen we interrupt our normal schedule to bring you a newsflash

We have just heard that Cristal, the sweetheart of Tele-CapitalHas been kidnapped by Les Étoiles Noires

SCENE 8

MJ You mustn’t believe everything you see on TVYou wanna know what I think?I don’t think Cristal’s been abducted by JohnnyNo I think she ran away with himHa ha ha

COUP DE FOUDRE

C I’ve been protected, been kept so cleanSo many places I’ve never beenSo I broke free to take my life in handWhen your name’s Cristal you ought to have things plannedIt cannot be deniedI’m feeling some things slide

JR Uptown thrill and Downtown tradeThat’s how it could be played

C But it’s my life it’s not a gameJR But in so many ways we’re really just the same

When we’re like this aloneI know and I am known

C Uptown thrill and Downtown tradeThat’s how it could be played

JR When we’re like this aloneWe know and we are known

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4C/JR Uptown thrill and Downtown trade

That’s how it could be playedAlthough we crossed the line It’s not a gameBut in so many ways we’re really just the sameWhen we’re like this aloneWe know and we are knownWe know and we are known

HARDER NOT TO NOTICE (Petite musique terrienne)

C It’s getting harder to be recklessIt’s not so easy not to mindWe’re getting old

JR It’s getting harder not to noticeWe’ve left some innocence behindWe were not toldWe were not told

C/JR Nobody mentionedWe’d be concernedFor a world that we wanted to ignoreNobody mentionedWe’d be concernedFor the world that we wanted to ignore

THIS IS OUR CITY (Monopolis)

C This is our cityIt’s all we need it’s all we knowBeyond this life another glowThe lights of yet another cityWhere further millions come and goThey flicker gently to and froBeyond the lights another cityAnd on and on the silence growsA never-ending neon showAnd we are just another cityAnd you and I will never goAlone in just another empty city

ACT 2

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SCENE 9

MJ Police are everywhere tonightAnd since they rarely travel light I’m all for keeping out of sightIn our underground retreat

Z We shouldn’t read this magazineIt brings the vie en rose to closeThe highs and lows stuffed between

MJ The squalid overdoseMJ/Z Put Stella Spotlight on

The one the call DivineMy God, she’s got a nerveStill claiming 39What’s this? She’s given upShe’s quit the cinema

Z She’s getting out the way that she came in: a starMJ/Z But as her final fling, get ready to receive

Her greatest movie yetA plot you won’t believeShe’s featured wearing clothesWhich makes this film a first

MJ And if her fans can’t see her tits I fear the worstMJ/Z She says this feature is

Her story barely changedNames altered here and thereMinor details to re-arrange

Z So at last she’s going to retireMJ I’ll believe it when I see it MJ/Z To write her memoirs

FAREWELL TO A SEX SYMBOL

SS I've a message for the worldAnd to all my loyal fansFor I don't knowWhat stories you've readI'm killing off Baby DollI've more exciting plansBaby Doll's gonna quitWhile she's aheadThis is her final goodbyeTo all the glam and glitzThis is about her checking outI'm taking off the RitzCome and watch her die

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4She’s had it up to hereThis is the last goodbyeThe exit of the yearI've spent the last decadePretending that I'm under thirtyAnd regularly laidWhen I hate even talking dirty - oh yes…How much I long to be unrecognizedAnd lead a quiet suburban lifeAnd be a half forgotten dreamAnd a wifeNobody knew it could be hellWhen I was filmed with guys in bedWhat they were thinking, you could tellI used to think about the breadNow it's time for a restTo go out on a highI've given, my bestSo this is goodbyeYou can keep the whole shebangThe parasitic gangThe nuts galoreAround my doorI ain't gonna slide downhillI'm leaving while I'm still DivineNo-one's gonna have a thrillSeeing a sad declineHigh on the peaks of fameI feel the winds of changeI feel the winds of changeNothing ever stays the sameWhen the only way is downWhen nothing excites, let lesser lightsScramble for the crownCome and watch her dieShe’s had it up to hereThis is the last goodbyeThe exit of the yearI've given all I've gotI've glittered for the glitterattiAnd now I'd trash the lotSo welcome to my farewell party -A legend's party…Observed in close-up by a billion eyesI say my final intimate good-byesAs I descend the golden stairs, I'll cry:"Let her go, let me leave you all!Let her die! Let the curtain fall !"

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4The cameras roll -I pause for the moment, for effectAnd with the timing you'd expect"Let her go, let me leave you all !Let her die ! Let the curtain fall !"The cameras roll -And then a final heartfelt tearAs I begin to disappear"I love you" from the fading queenThe perfect ending to the sceneThen the waiting limousineDriver, take me to oblivion!Take me to oblivion!

ZÉRO’S LETTER TO STELLA (Télégramme de Zéro a Stella)

SS Who could have sent all thisTo unimportant me?Look, a message nestled hereAnd it’s signed ‘Zéro Janvier’

ZJ Please forgive my approachI know it’s rather boldBut as soon as I was told The tragic news that The Divine was calling it a day I knewI had to meet with you

ZJ/SS And I hope you realise where your future duty liesYou mean so muchYou know you always willYou are the light of my life, and your people need you still

ZJ My goddess of the flesh, my goddess of the mindWho’s photos long resided in my wallet and my heartWould you who once inspired me from a distance be inclinedTo help me from much nearerPlay a closer part

ZJ/SS As a symbol of all that our people hold dearWon’t you join me today in a new crusade?Won’t you join me today in a great new crusade?

SS He’s got my number right, so why put up a fight!

SCENE 10

RR There is still no fresh news of our own Cristal, sweetheart of Tele-CapitalWho was abducted by, or possibly ran away with,The Étoiles Noires nearly a month ago

MJ I wonder where they took the girl

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4A month now on the run

Z They’re lying on the beach somewhere a threesome in the sunMJ Wherever Monsieur Rockfort is

I bet his hands are fullHe’s got a pair of women there won’t take no bull

RR Scandal ScandalMJ Won’t take no bullZ I see the press of Nordy Hill [??]

They all well know his nameRR And how. Scandal. Scandal. Details in our 11 o’clock transmission

TRIANGLE OF JEALOUSY (Trio de la jalousie)

S Well my little kidnappeeIt's time we make our plansI’ve drafted out a tear-stained noteYou simply add your name

C I think we’d make a bigger noiseIf I was seen and heard crying out to all the worldLike a broken frightened birdHelp me please I can’t take any moreHelp me please I can’t take any more

JR She’s so right She’s on the ballWe’ll make a video

S You just accept her first idea You’ve got a way to go

JR And so have you. From here and nowWe all do as I say

S You’re only doing what she wantsYou give yourself away

JR I just do what I believe, even if it failsS Johnny you’re a crazy man you’re coming off the railsC And I’m with you Johnny Rockfort

Till death do us part

I CAN’T TAKE ANY MORE (Besoin d’amour)

C She looks at me like I was meatShe wants it cut and driedI’m on the rack, I’m off the leadI feel like suicide

C Help me pleaseI can’t take any moreHelp me pleaseI can’t take any more

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4JR I can’t take her playing the upper hand

Can’t take any moreI can’t take not knowing where I standWon’t take any moreI won’t take any more of the liesTake any moreI wont take any compromiseWon’t you love me please

JR I know you knowC Love me pleaseJR I know you know

Love me pleaseC Love me pleaseJR Love me pleaseC Love me please

I cant t take any more shitS You just accept her first idea

Can’t you see this is itYou’ve got a way to go Can’t take any moreWon’t take any more I can’t take any moreWon’t take any more Can’t take any moreI can’t no more

C If we don’t make it now might as well both be deadAll I want’s all you’ve got, let your heart rule your headWon’t you help me please

JR I know you knowC Can’t take any moreJR I know you know

Love me pleaseCan’t take any more

C Can’t take any moreS You just accept her first idea

I can’t take any moreI know you knowLove me pleaseCan’t take any moreI know you knowCan’t take any moreI know you knowLove me pleaseCan’t take any moreCan’t take any more

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SS His time has come, his vision’s newZéro is the man for you He will walk that extra mileHe is power he is styleZéro is the manI said the mighty Lord up above, you got to believe in ZéroZéro is the man, the only man, the number one

INTERVIEW WITH ZÉRO AND STELLA

RR Following that ‘unusual’ p-p-p-political commercial, we have as promised thelong-awaited interview with Zéro Janvier, leader of the PPPP, accompanied by his ‘associate’, Stella Spotlight

MJ Hey, for once there just could be something special on TV

RR Roger Roger here, your interviewer tonight Monsieur JanvierLets begin by asking you about the principal new planks of your policy

ZJ My energy policy, as if you need to be toldIs frighteningly simple and dazzlingly bold….

RR I’m sure that’s the case, but the rumours got holdThat your ultimate goal is … dictatorship

ZJ A little courtesy please. I am your guest

SS Zéro Janvier did not come here to be insulted

RR Are you just going to chant slogans?What exactly will be the priorities of your government?

SS He has a vision of a whole new worldA world in which it’s good to be aliveAnd our priority

SS/ZJ Will be law and order naturally

RR Law and order naturally? Are you talking about a police state?

ZJ Will you please let me finish. Listen

RR Let me finish. What are you going to do about p-p-p-poverty?

SS Well he wants to talk about freedom of choice

ZJ I’m trying to talk about a whole new world

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SS A world of beauty, wealth, peace

ZJ a-a-and decency

C Help me pleaseI can’t take any moreHelp me pleaseI can’t take any more

RR Ladies and gentlemen we apologise for this unexpected interruption

ZJ What’s going on here?This is deliberate sabotage

MJ Help me pleaseI can’t take any more

RR This message from Cristal has apparently been transmitted on an outlawed wavelength

We apologise once again

MJ That Cristal girl, she’s quite a …WowI always rated her somehow but she just seemed too squeaky clean not to be a

drama queenAs for Stella, what a jokeLosing votes each time she spoke

DOMESTIC QUARREL (COUP DE MENAGE)

ZJ Come on down honey, hurry upOr we gonna be lateWe’ll miss the showAnd it’s for charity. That won’t look greatYou know how much it matters to meSo move your assI’m on the brink of my greatest dreamI don’t want my plans coming right on streamDon’t let me down, we’re the perfect team

SS I don’t believe you have a clueHow much I’ve sacrificed for youYour ambition sucks,So you can take a flying fuck

ZJ So it’s all over dear for usSS There’s nothing further to discussZJ Yes there is, mon p’tit chou

I want to marry you

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EGO TRIP

SS I've only got one lifeSo why give it away?Why let someone elseThink what I thinkSay what I say?

ZJ Tell me like it isTell me what I've done wrongI don't get that lovin' feelin'Coming on strong

SS What you feel is not my concernBut what you'll lose you'll soon learnMe I went with you to give you all that I could But you went with meBecause I make you look good

ZJ You ain't fooling me, it's abundantly clearScrewing me was just another move in your career

SS I never heard you moaning beforeZJ Oh yeah?SS You always came back for moreZJ/SS Ego trip – you’re just on your ego trip

Ego trip - I ain't on no ego tripI thought it was love and companionshipWhat a ripYou’re just on your ego tripEgo ego ego ego trip

ZJ I've given you the world and that's only the start The least you can do is let me into your heart The most you can do is to believe what I sayLook I'm down on my knees, in complete disarrayListen babe when comes shomes to shove [stumbles over ‘push comes to

shove’]I'm in love, I'm in loveEgo trip - you're just on your ego tripEgo trip - I ain't on no ego tripThe basis of this here relationshipIsn't hipIt's nothing but an ego tripEgo Ego trip

Ego trip – you’re just on your ego tripBut I ain't on no ego ego ego ego tripI thought it was love and companionshipWhat a ripEgo ego tripEgo trip - you’re just on your ego trip

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4What used to be goodTook a terminal dipA fatal slipIt’s nothing but an ego tripNothing but an ego tripEgo tripAh you’re just on your ego trip but I ain’t on no ego tripYou’re just on a low-down stinking no-good ego tripBaby can you hear meEgo trip

SCENE 11

RR Cristal has become a cult heroine ever since a sensational photograph of her in full Étoile Noire uniform with Johnny Rockfort was issued

It is now a poster, reproduced thousands of times, displayed all over the city.

C We have to strike a blow somehowI get the strangest feeling nowThat you are slowly losing heartWe have to show we are what we claimWe have to prove this is not a gameWe have to blast the show apart

JR Oh if I’m losing heart, I’ve lost my heart to youAnd nothing matters moreOr we could wait right hereOr simply disappear

C I’ve done all this for you no second thoughts, no turning backAnd anyway I got no choice This life’s an aphrodisiac

JR No turning backTo keep you feeling over-sexedWhere can we make it hurt for the bastards next?

C There’s a palace to burnA phallus to deflowerAnd that’s the Zéro Janvier towerPull the obscenity down, and then it’s our turn

NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE (Quand on n’a plus rien a perdre)

JR/C After all we’ve been throughNothing anyone could doMatters to those like me or youWho’ve been taken out or inAnd if we can’t winWe‘ve got nothing left to loseWe‘ve got nothing left to loseWhen your back’s to the wall

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4Might as well go the whole way downLet them know you’ve arrived by the way that you goMight as well go to townTake it out on them allThose who can’t afford to runIt’s fun letting them know we’ve not playing for funNobody can take what isn’t thereNobody can break minds that don't careWe, we are immune to anybody’s tuneAfter all we’ve been throughNothing anyone could doMatters to those like me or youWho’ve been taken out or inAnd if we can’t winWe‘ve got nothing left to loseWe‘ve got nothing left to loseWe don’t have to live, that’s why we willNo alternative that is a thrillIt is time for us to seeHow sweet it can beWhen you’ve got nothing left to loseWhen you’ve got nothing left to loseWhen you’ve got nothing left to loseWhen you’ve got nothing left to lose

A DYING ART (Duo d’adieu)

MJ Ziggy, my darling ZiggyI know I’m losing youYou moved away in deed and mindWhich does not leave a lot behindOh my only friendStay a moment and pretend

I wouldn’t claim we were idealBut I could die for what I feel

Z Marie-Jeanne you’re wrongAnd have been for a long long timeOh I know you wanted romanceAnd I was fun and unattachedAll a lady requiresIn my way I love'd you so muchBut our stars are so mismatchedNo to mention desires

MJ Ziggy, you’re my only friendZ I’ve seen Sadia several times

She’s hired me as a disc jockey at NazilandZéro Janvier’s discotheque

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4MJ Why do you want to get involved with Sadia?Z She has powerful friendsMJ So has she dropped Les Étoiles Noires?Z If you want to know the truth, Sadia works for Zéro JanvierMJ Ziggy, you’re making that up!

Tell me it’s not true!

Z Our worlds are worlds apartCloser once, distant nowOur love’s a dying artIn the end we all learn how

MJ/Z Our worlds are worlds apartOnly touch to move away

MJ Our love’s a dying artEvery heart has its day

Z Our love’s a dying artEvery heart has its day

YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE ALONE (Les uns contre les autres)

MJ We sleep together, close and warmWe calm each other through the stormWe set up home, but in a whileWe're tempted by another's smileWhen it's all played outIf the truth were knownYou have to learn to live aloneThey dance around the fading lightHe holds her closer every nightHe fell in love but she did notBut in the end he’s all she’s gotWhen it's all played outIf the truth were knownYou have to learn to live aloneWe fly around the world too fastWe cannot make a moment lastWe love the crowd, we sing and playWe do it all, we get our wayWhen it's all played outWhen the birds have flownYou have to learn to live aloneWhen we're all played outWhen the truth is known You have to learn to live alone.Learn to live alone

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RR To everybody’s surprise, Stella Spotlight has just revealed her marriage plansShe will wed Zéro Janvier this afternoon, and tonight there will be the party to

end all parties at Naziland, the revolving discotheque at the top of Zéro Janvier’s commercial headquarters, the Golden Tower.

Tonight also we shall know the result of the presidential election.Will Zéro triumph, as the polls say he will?

TONIGHT WE DANCE (Ce soir on dance a Naziland)

Z I'm going up, going up, going upTo the top of the pile in style

S The tower grows into the nightThe power pumps fortissimo

Z There are no pressures at this heightThe world’s a bagatelle below

S/Z Tonight we danceTonight we danceWe dance - extravagance!

RR Paris, Madrid, London, Lisbon, Mexico, Montreal, Buenos Aries and BonnAll the capitals of the Western world are falling one by one into the horn of

plenty of this new ‘sun king’.There is only one jewel missing from his crown and that is - Washington

S/Z The bride is blessed the table laidBring on the devils and the priestsThe dance is hot and Heaven-madeFor this most moveable of feastsThe house account is in the blackThe glasses loaded on the trayA certain style is coming backOr else it never went awayTonight we danceTonight we danceWe dance - extravagance!

RR And now the news that we, and he, have been waiting forIt’s the final bouquet, the total triumphDirect from Washington, we’ve just heardThat President Clinton has conceded to Zéro Janvier

S The tower grows into the nightThe power pumps fortissimoThere are no pressures at this height

S/Z The world’s a bagatelle belowTonight we dance

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4Tonight we danceWe dance - extravagance!

JR/C When you’ve got nothing left to lose

RR Ladies and gentlemen, it is 8 o’clockYou are about to see the victor appearing on your screensZéro Janvier, the President of the Western world

S/Z Tonight we danceTonight we danceTonight we danceTonight we dance

S Some guests your secretary missedOff your invitation listThe Étoiles Noires intend to crashThis very private intimate bash

ZJ The Étoiles Noires! Those imbeciles! This place is guarded to the gills

S Oh, they’re here already, God knows howBut I’m sure that you’ll appreciateSince their wedding present is a bombButs that’s a question that can wait

ZJ They’ll never leave this place alive!Destroy the Étoiles Noires!

JR/C When you’ve got nothing left to loseZ Cry it out cry it out cry it outJR/C When you’ve got nothing left to loseS/Z The table’s laid the bride is laid [sic]

Bring on the devils and the priestsJR/C When you’ve got…..S/Z The dance is hot and Heaven-madeJR/C … nothing left to loseS/Z For the most moveable of feasts

Tonight we danceTonight we danceWe dance

S Courtesan, mistress, nun, perfect lady or a bitch Tonight we dance – extravagance!All laid out for you

Tonight we danceTonight we dance

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C Help me pleaseI can’t take any moreGet Johnny

ONLY THE VERY BEST (SOS d’un terrien en détresse)

JR No-one can have more than their dueI wanted life, I wanted youOnly the very bestA reasonable requestThis is too high a price to payNow they've taken you awayMight as well take meDown, down to hell for I don't careThey can put me anywhereThrow away the keyI always walked a definite lineCutting a dash, cutting it fineAnd once, only once did I lose controlI gave her my soulAnd I gave, and I gave and I gaveHer my soulI was immortal till todayNow I feel a cold decayCrawling over meNo-one can have more than their dueI wanted life, I wanted youOnly the very bestNo other interestThis is the way you should remainNever feeling any painNever getting oldSleep little one, your night is hereMine is growing very nearOh it's getting cold

BREAKING DREAMS (La rêve de Stella Spotlight)

ZJ You are my victory, I shall be your power

SS What is the pointOf flying so high?What is the point Of playing to win?When nothing is left, at the end of the show

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4And the spotlight fading on your poor wrinkled skinThe Universe is my playgroundThe Earth far below a pinpoint of lightAnd I weep for I shall be crownedWith the moon my tiara tonightThe Milky Way my wedding trainThe Virgin I shall be againI sat at the glassI dreamed of being a starOf immortal beauty beyond all thingsTonight I shall see all things and know all thingsHope all thingsBelieve all thingsAll things

SEXTET

ZJ Oh I would love to change the worldSS Let me go, let me leave you allZJ Its many failings one by oneSS Let her dieJR ~~~ the rush of the wind on its ~ZJ To be the artist, poet, priest

~~ of the dark of the nightZJ Who feels the battle can be wonJR We are both the sameC I can’t take any moreJR ~~~~~~ZJ I would love to fall in loveSS Let me go, let me leave you allZJ To lose my heart, to lose controlSS Let her dieZJ To break away set rolling freeC Help me pleaseZJ The darkest secrets of my soulC Can’t take any moreZ Our love’s a dying artZJ Oh I would love to change the worldMJ When it’s all played out, you have to learn to live aloneZJ To steal a march, to play for keepsJR ~~~ the rush of the wind on its ~ZJ To break the mould, to jump the gunC Can’t take any moreZ Our love’s a dying artZJ Oh I would love to change……Tous The woooooooooooooorld!

THE WORLD IS STONE

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MJ I’m too sad to resistI’m too weary to cryAs I take one last lookAnd I ask myself whyStone, the world is stoneSo cold to the touchSo hard on the soulIn grey of the streetsIn the neon unknownI look for a signThat I'm not on my ownThat I'm not here aloneAs I take one last lookAnd I ask myself whyStone, the world is stoneWith the still of the nightAnd the choke of the airAnd the winner's delightAnd the loser's despairClosing in left and rightI would love not to careStone, the world is stoneI’m too sad to resistI’m too weary to cryAs I take one last lookAnd I understand whyAnd the love rushes inLike a new shining dayAs I open my heartAnd the stone rolls away I’m too sad to resistI’m too weary to cryAs I take one last lookAnd I understand whyAnd the love rushes inLike a new shining dayAs I open my heartAnd the stone rolls awayAnd the stone rolls away

THE WORLD IS STONE (REPRISE)

Tous With the still of the nightAnd the choke of the airAnd the winner's delightAnd the loser's despairClosing in left and right

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4I would love not to careStone, the world is stoneBut only for those Who have heart of their ownAnd the love rushes inLike a new shining dayAs I open my heartAnd the stone rolls awayStone, the world is stoneBut only for those Who have heart of their ownAnd the love rushes inLike a new shining dayAs I open my heartAnd the stone rolls awayStone

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Starmania/Tycoon 1993/4ACT 1

OVERTURE instTHIS IS OUR CITY (Monopolis) 2SOMETHING’S GOING ON….. (Il se passse quelque chose a Monopolis) 2A LITTLE DAMAGE DONE (Quand on arrive en ville) 3NEWS (Scene 1) 4YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE (Travesti) 5FLASHBACK/JOHNNY MEETS SADIA (Scene 2) 7WORKING GIRL (La complainte de la serveuse automate) 8STARMANIA (Scene 3) 9INTERVIEW WITH ZÉRO JANVIER 9I WOULD LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLD (Le blues de businessman) 10SCENE 4 11ZIGGY (Un garçon pas comme les autres) 11POLLUTION'S CHILD (Un enfant de la pollution) 12SCENE 5 13MAMASVILLE (La chanson de Ziggy) 13SCENE 6 14CRYSTAL INTERVIEWS JOHNNY 15NORTHERN SIDE (Banlieu nord) 16THE ABDUCTION OF CRISTAL instSCENE 7 17ZÉRO’S CAMPAIGN (Discours électoral) 17SCENE 8 18COUP DE FOUDRE 18HARDER NOT TO NOTICE (Petite musique terrienne) 19THIS IS OUR CITY (Monopolis) 19

ACT 2

SCENE 9 20FAREWELL TO A SEX SYMBOL 20ZÉRO’S LETTER TO STELLA (Télégramme de Zéro a Stella) 22SCENE 10 22TRIANGLE OF JEALOUSY (Trio de la jalousie) 23I CAN’T TAKE ANY MORE (Besoin d’amour) 23STELLA’S JINGLE 25INTERVIEW WITH ZÉRO AND STELLA 25DOMESTIC QUARREL (Coup De Menage) 26EGO TRIP 27SCENE 11 28NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE (Quand on n’a plus rien a perdre) 28A DYING ART (Duo d’adieu) 29YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE ALONE(Les uns contre les autres) 30SCENE 12 31TONIGHT WE DANCE (Ce soir on dance a Naziland) 31ONLY THE VERY BEST (SOS d’un terrien en détresse) 33BREAKING DREAMS (La rêve de Stella Spotlight) 33SEXTET 34THE WORLD IS STONE 35THE WORLD IS STONE (REPRISE) 35

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