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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 3 November 2018

Guetta breaks down his formula for success, talks new album

By SIAN WATSON still didn’t figure out how to making music, I’m imagin-
Associated Press beat jetlag. But yeah, that ing the moment I’m going
LONDON (AP) — Grammy- is very small compared to to drop this record. And the
winning DJ-producer and all the amazing things that amazing feeling of happi-
hitmaker David Guetta come with my job. ness ... (is) what makes me
says success is mostly down _____ want to work those 16 hours
to hard work and luck — AP: If you’re playing in Ibi- a day sometimes in the stu-
not talent. za, for example, do you get dio.”
The 50-year-old French per- carried away with the audi- _____
former, who says he feels ence’s energy? AP: Does it help to have
“very complete as a man Guetta: Obviously when friends in the industry?
and an as an artist right you get onstage it’s like a Guetta: Well, we always
now,” credits his longevity huge rush of adrenaline traveling so we don’t have
to his persistent work ethic, because you receive all so much of a family life or
adding that he believes this energy, all this love. like a normal social life, so
the formula for success is It’s actually crazy because we kind of create a new
“talent 20 percent, work in my entire career I only family. We all do festivals,
probably 70 percent and In this Nov. 12, 2017 file photo, French DJ David Guetta poses for cancelled two shows, and we usually play in the same
10 percent of luck.” photographers at the MTV European Music Awards in London. it was two times because places during the summer
Guetta released the al- Associated Press of the plane, not because ... it’s like a circuit of festi-
bum, “7,” in September. His performances and his new ways here from me and re- of me. Doesn’t matter if I’m vals. So that’s what is hap-
last album was 2014’s “Lis- album, which features ally appreciate it. sick, have (a) fever, I always pening. We created a new
ten.” collaborations with Justin _____ do it. And I can be really music family and yes, it’s
Despite “7’’ being his sev- Bieber, Sia, Nicki Minaj, J AP: You have a crazy shaking with (a) fever the great. It’s great.
enth record, he said the Balvin, Bebe Rexha and schedule. How do you stay moment, I get onstage it’s _____
album’s title has a deeper Martin Garrix, among oth- healthy with such a hectic all gone. It’s like magic be- AP: Is there anyone else
meaning. ers. lifestyle? cause you receive so much that you really want to col-
“Seven is like a full week, _____ Guetta: Yes, it’s sometimes energy that, you know, it’s laborate with?
seven days to create the AP: What was it like to col- a little too much. I’m not just crazy and that’s addict- Guetta: There are many
world in the Bible. And I laborate again with Nicki going to lie, because at the ing. You know, that’s prob- people that I want to work
feel like (I’m) starting a new Minaj and Sia? moment I’m doing one city ably what keeps me going with. I would love to work
cycle in my life,” he said. Guetta: Nicki Minaj and per day. It’s a lot. But it’s the to the studio. You know, with Adele, which I nev-
“It’s actually a similar feel- Sia, they are like old-time life I chose, and it makes like, I think a lot of new pro- er did. But, at the same
ing ... (to) when I did my partners. I really appreci- me very happy. I have the ducers, DJs ... they start by time, probably the biggest
first album, which is a great ate that they are so loyal best job in the world. So, I being producers and then dream is to find a new Sia.
place to be in.” to me. I think we made re- don’t want to complain. because of having a suc- Someone that can write
In an interview with the cords that were really life- Every job has a little bit cessful record they go to and sing and that is un-
Associated Press, Guetta changing together. And I of a downside and prob- (the) stage and become known and that we can
discussed how he stays feel like they became such ably jetlag will be the big DJs. For me it’s the other develop something to-
healthy on the road, the huge stars and I think it’s downside of my work. And way around. I go to the gether. That’s the ultimate
addicting energy of live amazing that they’re al- even after all those years I studio because when I’m dream really.q

Pussy Riot founder’s guide to political activism

By ANN LEVIN prison on charges of hooli- inequality, the global em- of a bright, thoughtful ide-
Associated Press ganism. Since their pardon powerment of oligarchs, alist who’s not even 30.
“Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot in late 2013 as the Kremlin threats to public education She credits the Riot Grrls
Guide to Activism” (Harp- tried to clean up its image and health care, plus a po- feminist punk movement of
erOne), by Nadya Tolokon- before the Sochi Olympics, tentially fatal environmen- the 1990s for inspiration as
nikova they have traveled the tal crisis” with a DIY spirit well as the radical protest-
Power to the people: world as global celebrities, and “pirate” mentality. ers of the 1960s, who took
Where have we heard that speaking out about their The book is divided into a their fight for civil rights and
before? In the 1960s, to be ordeal behind bars. series of 10 “rules,” one per against the Vietnam War to
sure. And again today in Tolokonnikova’s stomach- chapter, each accompa- the streets.
“Read & Riot,” an invigo- churning description of the nied by tactics and strat- Her joyously anarchic, radi-
rating new guide to radical barbarous conditions of the egies and enlivened by cally egalitarian spirit re-
protest by Pussy Riot found- labor camp where she was quotes from some of her calls a revolutionary of that
er Nadya Tolokonnikova. sent will resonate with ac- cultural and political he- earlier era, Abbie Hoffman,
Most of the world first heard tivists in the U.S. protesting roes. whose 1971 manifesto,
of the punk art collective the penal system here. That’s a long list that in- “Steal This Book,” offered
when Tolokonnikova and She sees numerous paral- cludes Vaclav Havel and tips on how to live for free
two others were arrested in lels between the two coun- Noam Chomsky, Emmeline and on the run.
an anti-Putin protest inside tries — “When two people Pankhurst and bell hooks, While much has changed
Moscow’s Cathedral of fight for a long time, they Bernie Sanders and Dio- since Hoffman was the
Christ the Savior in 2012. end up looking more and genes the Cynic. face of youthful rebellion,
Tolokonnikova and Ma- This cover image released more alike” — and be- Tolokonnikova, a self-de- he would no doubt be smil-
ria Alekhina, whose pris- by HarperOne shows “Read tween Donald Trump and scribed nerd who has read ing at a how-to section
on memoir, “Riot Days,” & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide Vladimir Putin. widely and deeply, fairly of Tolokonnikova’s book
by
Nadya
to
Activism,”
came out last year, were Tolokonnikova. She hopes to spark protest bursts with all the energy devoted to shoplifting in
sentenced to two years in Associated Press against “a cosmic rise in and passion you’d expect Moscow.q