Cerrone says his music featuring in Olympic ceremony is ‘the cherry on the cake’

The musician, 72, will see two of his songs, Give Me Love and UK top 10 hit Supernature from 1977’s Cerrone 3, played by a symphony orchestra of 150 musicians as the ceremony ends. Cerrone told the PA news agency he was initially approached by the ceremony’s music director, Victor le Masne, who wanted to use Supernature’s b-side, Give Me Love. The producer invited Mr le Masne to his studio to discuss the plans, where he told him he had been working on a symphonic interpretation of his catalogue, and that the only track which would be altered would be Supernature in order to give it “more expression”.

After Cerrone played the music director three minutes of the track, he asked to have a copy. Once the symphonic performances were finished, Mr le Masne asked Cerrone if he could include the track in the ceremony along with Give Me Love. Cerrone said: “It’s a big gift for me.

“It’s massive, especially where it is going to be played. You will see it’s surprising, it’s a big honour for me, I couldn’t have imagined it 47 years back. “Supernature surprised me a lot of times.

It’s been involved in the soundtrack climax and at the beginning of movies. “Supernature made me have a lot of big moments, but to finish the ending of the celebration of the Olympic Games, wow, what can I say? “It’s a double celebration, it’s a celebration for the Olympic Games of course, but it’s my celebration too.” Born in the Vitry-sur-Seine suburb of Paris to Italian p.