How Johnny Hallyday rowed to seduce Sylvie Vartan – Gala

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It took six months to Johnny Hallyday to successfully seduce the lovely Sylvie Vartan. The singer has not had a crush on the idol of the young when she met him for the first time… The rocker however was not discouraged.

Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan were two of the stars of years yéyé, symbols of beauty and youth during the decade of the 1960s. In the eyes of the public, a union between these two celebrities seemed obvious. Yet, the interpreter of The most beautiful to go dancing did not let itself be seduced so easily. The Taulier has rowed for six months during before cracking singer ! “We met several times without anything happening. There has been no bolt of lightning – so much that I was very in love elsewhere, ” confirmed in 2016 Sylvie Vartan in our columns.

The first meeting between the bride and groom took place on December 28, 1961, in the backstage of the Olympia during a concert of the british singer Vince Taylor. Johnny Hallyday is addressed to his friend Eddy Vartan : “Hey, you see this girl. I taperais well… “, without knowing that he spoke as well of his sister. Without rancor, the boyfriend of the star presented to him by Sylvie Vartan. For it, it is so far from love at first sight. ” It has not been calculated “, the story Fabien Lecœuvre, columnist, and author of several biographies, for Gala in 2016. Johnny will be nice to invite them to several times, up to dispatch his personal secretary, Jean-Pierre Pierre-Bloch, the future member of parliament for Paris, for him to declare his flame. In vain…

The couple will be born eventually several months after their meeting. Daniel Filipacchi, the owner of the magazine Salut les Copains, organizes a lunch with Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan in his country house. The rocker is more natural. “It was very uncomfortable, very shy, very sensitive. It was then that Sylvie has really exploded, ” says yet Fabien Lecœuvre. Four years later, in 1965, the relationship will be cemented by a marriage, very publicized.

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