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Light My Fire
Jose Feliciano
02
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Rolling Stones
03
You Really Got Me
The Kinks
04
Because The Night
Patti Smith
05
Keep on Running
Spencer Davis Group
06
The Best
Tina Turner
07
We Gotta Get out of This Place
The Animals
08
White Room (ft. Eric Clapton)
Sheryl Crow
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I Got You Babe
Sonny & Cher
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After Midnight
Eric Clapton
Alain Jeannet
What's Next
«Thomas, go go!»
Musik und Text von Alain Jeannet, Journalist, Musiker und Weggefährte von Thomas Trüb
J’vais vous parler d’un entrepreneur exemplaire
D’un journaliste, d’un joueur hors-pair
D’un homme qui vise toujours plus haut
Thomas ou le pragmatisme mégalo
Go Thomas, go, go / Thomas: what’s next? / Oh, oh, oh…
Il a passé son enfance à Lucerne
Pour y suivre une scolarité plutôt terne
Il a gagné sa vie au poker et au jass
Avant de se r’cycler dans la presse – badass
La rencontre de sa vie, c’est à Cuba
Avec Marie-Françoise la belle de Corsica
Sous le soleil, dans les plantations de tabac
Avanti Popolo, Bandiera rossa
C’est avec CASH qu’il a vraiment cartonné
D’abord en Suisse puis dans le monde entier
De Prague à Shenzhen en passant par Bucarest
Il a étendu l’empire Ringier d’Ouest en Est
Mais c’est au Vietnam qu’il se sent bien
Malgré les pièges, aïe, aïe, aïe
Du professeur Cat, sans cesse il y revient
Son menu fétiche : cuisses de grenouilles à l’ail
Au nom de la transformation numérique
Il a mobilisé des sommes homériques
Well done, le bateau est toujours à flots
Le capitaine Walder peut faire le show
Il faudrait des livres pour retracer
Les exploits de cet infatigable pionnier
L’Nigeria, le Ghana, l’Kenya et j’en oublie
Sa qualité ultime, sa force : la fantaisie !
Sous l’égide de la Fondation Dariu
Un million d’enfants ont appris à coder
J’vous dis : c’était un pari un peu fou
Posez la question à ChatGPT
L’homme a parfois des idées bizarres
Élever des chèvres naines et des lamas
Marre de larguer les amarres ?
Personnellement, je n’y crois pas
Refrain (2x)
The Seeds You Sowed
A success measured not in headlines or gold
But in millions of stories waiting to be told
Named for a son, born of vision and heart
Where a child’s future gets a brand new start.
From rural Vietnam to the mountains of Bhutan
Bringing laptops and light, a courageous plan
Mobile classrooms rolling through the dusty road
Lifting the heavy weight, lightening the load.
Over two million children reaching for the sky
Learning to code, learning how to fly!
Dariu’s dream, a legacy so bright
Giving every young mind the key and the light!
Oh, Thomas, the seeds you sowed today
Are changing the world along the way!
Young girls and boys with digital keys
Building their futures across the seas
Beyond the media, beyond the fame
This is the heart behind your name.
Over two million children reaching for the sky
Learning to code, learning how to fly!
Dariu’s dream, a legacy so bright
Giving every young mind the key and the light!
Oh, Thomas, the seeds you sowed today
Are changing the world along the way!
The Last Yuppie
Seventy-four at Ringier, the ink was in his veins
From Bilanz to the big wide world, stepping onto planes
They called him the last Yuppie, the rock star of the press
Two hundred flights a year, building empires of success.
Launching Cash and traveling far through Bucharest and Prague
Nathalie’s rebooking flights through the airport fog
No rigid plan, just vision and a sharp, intuitive mind
The legendary publisher, one of a kind.
Catch him if you can, flying high above the cloud
Building bridges east to west, making people proud
Deliver the plan after the project’s done and through
That’s the style of Thomas, doing what he loves to do!
Leave the boardroom behind, head south towards the sea
To the shores of Corsica, where the spirit feels so free
At Porticcio the table’s set, the wine begins to flow
Teaching young Jean-Charles and Dariu all they need to know.
Resurrecting Wi-Fi, fixing printers in the shade
Playing a round of Jass, celebrating bonds he made
A big warm heart beneath the sun, stories left to tell
Where time slows down in U Tempu Persu, all is well.
Here’s to Thomas, the creator, mentor, friend, and guide
With a soul connected to the oceans deep and wide
From Lucerne to Corsica, the journey’s bright and clear
Happy Birthday to a legend, cheers to another year!
The Young Boy with the Big
Born under the Swiss sky in August fifty-two
Shoveling snow in Chur just to get a ride on something new
Down in Old Town Lucerne where the river meets the lake
He wasn’t made to follow rules or make the easy choice to take.
Upstairs at the Fritschi dive, the clever minds would meet
Down below the tough crowd talked of revolutions in the street
Tommy the kid played cards till dawn, a rebel with a plan
Decided early on he’d be his own self-made man.
Oh, he quit the classroom early, stepped into the light
Trading shoe-shine coins for dreams to take his flight
From Lucerne to the world beyond, he charted out his way
The young boy with the big wild heart living for today!