The halls of the Elys�e Palace are not notable for resonant with the thrashing drums and chopped guitar solos of "Kill 'Em All", "Cunning Stunts" or "St Anger". Nevertheless, the French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is patently enthralled to be taking time out from her diplomatic duties to jam alongside the heavy metal band Metallica � and Sir Paul McCartney � in a live visual aspect on Jools Holland's late-night television music show in two weeks' time.
The 40-year-old former model, world Health Organization married President Nicolas Sarkozy in February, is engaged to execute on the live broadcast, which will make up the number 1 episode in a new BBC2 series beginning on 16 September.
Mme Bruni-Sarkozy volition use the show, which traditionally begins with all of the host's guests playing together, to advance UK gross revenue of her recent album Comme Si de Rien N'Etait, which translates as "As If Nothing Had Happened".
Her quiet and reflective acoustic strumming will supply contrast to the head-banging antics of the enceinte metal band Metallica, coming into court on the show for the first time in 12 age. The former Beatle Paul McCartney will headline, with the Nashville rock threesome Kings of Leon complemental the line up. A spokesman for Later With Jools Holland aforesaid the inclusion of Bruni-Sarkozy on the same measure as the world's nigh famous heavy metal band was a natural choice.
"There's always a bit of a mingle of acts of the Apostles on the show, and Carla has been brought in aboard some heavier rock acts of the Apostles for this reason," he said. "It's just whatsoever the producers think would make a good testify. If they think the artists ar good enough, that's it. They don't just put people on for the sake of it."
Alison Howe, the producer of the series, aforesaid Bruni-Sarkozy had "made a charming album, and wanted to get along and perform on Later as we are low and frontmost a music show".
After contributing to the opening jam session, Mme Bruni-Sarkozy will give a brief interview to Jools Holland, the show's piano-playing host, earlier singing a few songs from her third record album, which went straight to the peak of the French charts following its release last month.
The album ab initio raised eyebrows in France for its unabashed and explicit references to Bruni-Sarkozy's relationship with the French President.
One particularly raunchy song, entitled "Yours", contains the lyrics "You're my lord, you're my darling, you're my orgy ... I who always sought flaming, am burning for you like a pagan woman." Other numbers see the first lady likening her lover to cocaine and even reflection about her prolific love life, vocalizing "I am still a child, contempt my 40 years, disdain my 30 lovers".
The book was about entirely penned by the former theoretical account and included collaborations with the French novelist Michel Houellebecq and the vocalizer Julien Clerc. Despite the controversial lyrics it was instantly hailed as a triumph by the bourgeois newspaper Le Figaro, which called it a "large success" and the mature work of an "exceeding singer".
Mme Bruni-Sarkozy's forthcoming show has drawn the choler of rock purists. James McMahon, features editor of the New Musical Express magazine, described the invitation as despicable.
He said: "As somebody world Health Organization cares profoundly about the power of rock and roll, I think it's disgusting. I've always been of the belief that rock and roll is supposed to be antiauthoritarian and about kicking up a bother, not about cosying up to the establishment."
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