Johnny Hallyday : ses confidences about life, family, love, death… – Gala

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If Johnny Hallyday was not a great talker, he had the words that affect. When this bohemian rock let go, he went to the essentials. With a lucidity that is incisive…

Johnny Hallyday passed away. The rocker died in the night of 5 to 6 December 2017. He died in his home in Marnes-la-Coquette, in the arms of his wife Laeticia Hallyday. The singer was not a great talker, even if he was confiding sometimes in interview – as evidenced by the last he gave at the Gala, in 2012. A tribute to the giant of the rock French, we found its strongest quotes. Johnny Hallyday had many pearls of wisdom to share…

Preserve his innocence :” It does not advance calmly if we do not keep a large part of the childhood self. When I look at myself in a mirror, I don’t see a old, and in my head, I feel like at twenty years. “(Gala, 2012).

Forgiving our parents : ” My only real encounter with my father, it was the day of his burial. I went there out of respect. I found myself all alone in the small cemetery by the belgian Schaerbeek. How sad, this day, with the hearse and the father followed by a stranger, his son. “(World, 1998)

Dare the impossible :” It is never too late to start over. “(Paris Match, 2013)

Keep the survival instinct:” to Exist is to insist. I think that is a lovely phrase. It is true, to exist really, it is necessary to insist for a long time. It’s work, still and always work. “(Book Johnny Hallyday, Ed Michel Lafon, 2008)

To remain so, in the midst of others:” I’m a loner who works in a tribe. I evaded very easily, even in the middle of a crowd. “(Madame Figaro, 2011)

Love and madness :” I loved as a deaf person. “(Nouvel Obs, 1998)

Be head of the family :” today, my son became my best friend. Really. Between my oldest daughter and me, there’s a lot of love, but our relationships are sometimes complicated. Laura has suffered from a lack of father, and wished that I behave with her like the dad I am today for Jade and Joy. Now, the most important in my eyes, is that my little girls are living happy. I don’t want them to have the same childhood as me, without a father at their side. “(Woman Current, 2009)

From icon:” I’m afraid of the deprivation, the sickness, the slow death. I prefer to burst against a tree, with nobody at my side that day. “(France Soir, 1998)

Find our hors-série The legend of Johnny Hallyday, on newsstands this Thursday, 7 December.

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