France Gall: its romance missed with Johnny Hallyday – Gala

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Long before he collaborated with his friend Michel Berger, in the 80s, Johnny Hallyday had crossed the road to France Gall, in the early 70’s. Some hoped even engaged. In vain…

The passion does not cook on a gentle heat. It is a bit the moral of the story. France Gall and Johnny Hallyday : the couple would have panicked, the gazettes, as was referred to yet the tabloids in the seventies. The first couple with Julien Clerc and the second married to Sylvie Vartan, the matter did not ultimately made. Yet, everything had pretty well started…

The romance was not even served on a tray… of cinema. 1970. Some idols yéyé have already tried, with success, to the cinema. Three years earlier, Sheila was surprised in Bang Bang Serge Piolet. In 1966, Francoise Hardy let herself be lead by John Frankenheimer in Grand Prix. In 1964, Sylvie Vartan did smile in Potato Robert Thomas, while the idol Hallyday has marked the film where do you come From, Johnny ? Christmas Howard. Interpreter as docile as troubling Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, it has not yet turned. He was offered the films of her friends, Sylvie, Frances and Sheila. It was all denied. Decades later, in an interview with The Express, it will justify its stubborn refusal to “do the actress” : “fiction and the composition, all that is false, not like me not. “

At the dawn of the 70s, Robert Hossein the convinces, however, to discuss his next film, drop Point. This is the story of a young girl of the haute bourgeoisie, kidnapped by gang members. One of them must fall in love with her. His interpreter has already been found : it will be Johnny Hallyday.

France proposes that everyone found in it. First and last appointments of work. “(Johnny) arrived very late. Meanwhile, I had begun to climb a bechamel sauce or a sauce of madeira; I couldn’t interrupt me, and he left again. This is to tell you how much the movie interested me… ” she remembered, not without laughter, in The Express, in 2004.

The two artists recroiseront in the mid 80’s, thanks to their companions respective Michel Berger and Nathalie Baye. Johnny is struggling on the artistic side. It is said to be has-been, unable to sing of the profound texts. The mother of his little Laura will arrange a meeting with Michel Berger, basking in the success of Starmania. Opposite the singer’s flamboyant and the composer reserved. Sufficient in all cases, for they fascinate one another. Their alloy is unlikely, will be born the album Rock’n roll attitude, with the tubes, The singer abandoned and something of Tennessee.

France Gall was saving it for Johnny – as modest as she was, in spite of appearances – a real tenderness. Last December 10, she had read these words in Michel Drucker, who led a tribute to the late idol of young people : “I am infinitely saddened, I welcome the unique artist, the faithful friend. I have always been touched by his kindness, his charisma, his voice, irreplaceable and irresistible smile. I keep in my 50 years of memories and friendship, and especially the moments spent with Johnny and Michel during their encounters with art. “

See you in Heaven White, maybe.

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