Alain Pacadis (Paris, 1949 - Paris, December 12th 1986) was a French journalist and author.

To defer underground, chronicler society man, he writes of 1975 with his disappearance in 1986 in Libération, the Echo of Savannas, Playboy or Gai Foot; but also for De luxe hotel magazine or Frontage.

Pacadis with Yves Adrien and Marc Zermati belongs to the first to cover the birth of the movement Punk. In its many articles he writes on the cinema, the rock'n'roll, drug, beautiful arts, the nightclubbing… Icône of glam-punk with beginning of the year 80, Pacadis belongs to the heteroclite customers of the Palace , old theater of the Montmartre Suburb become one of the most run Parisian boxes of night Paris. The reputation near certain media spheres of this rather nihilist character often appears as largely overrates.

Documentary was devoted to him in 2003: Alain Pacadis, a hero in , realized by Grégory Hervelin and Vladimir Tybin. It is learned there in particular that the circumstances of its death remain turbid. His/her partner of the time, transsexual, is shown to have strangled it in the small hour, whereas it returned, desperate, of another of her evenings. She defends herself to have assassinated it while ensuring to have acted her request. Paca - " you aces not ten balles" - was incinerated with the cemetery of the Father-Lachaise where its ashes finish cooling with funérarium.

It should be noted that Alain Pacadis plays the part of a dealer informer in the Brothers Detonators (1986 of Herve Palud with Gerard Lanvin and Jacques Villeret).

Works

• an young man smart , editions of Sagittarius, 1978 (republication 2002 at Denoël but exhausted)
• Alexis Bernier & François Buot, the Spirit of the seventies , Grasset, 1994
• Nightclubbing: Articles 1973-1986 , Denoël, rééd 2005

External bond

• a portrait of Alain Pacadis