Johnny Hallyday : the little story behind its larger tubes signed Michel Berger, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Pascal Obispo & co Gala

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Exceptional musician, Johnny also knew how to surround himself with the authors-composers inspired by his character.

The idol of young people (” It is the same that I envy, But if they could know in life how alone I am “) : It is not always clear if the singers were telling the truth when they speak in the first person, much less that the words are not always their own. Adaptation by Ralph Bernet tube Teenage Idol, American Ricky Nelson, The idol of young people, and yet it is one of the songs that has most stuck to the skin of Johnny Hallyday. As early as 1962, it was placed permanently on the character : a kind and adored by all but washed away by the solitude, an eternal heart to take the eyes of its fans.

That I love you (” When you feel more pussy / And you have become a bitch “) : The duo is seasoned. If one has the composer Jean Renard Maritza for Sylvie Vartan, author Gilles Thibaut to co-authored, As usual with Claude François. In 1969, Hallyday know at first that a text of the second as he pleases. It is That I love you. The resonance of this ode very direct to the carnal love is immediate, causing the same, on stage in the early 70’s, real scenes of hysteria. Until the end, she will be part of the highlights of his tours of singing.

The music that I love (” The blues it means that I love you / And I’ve hurt enough to die “) : Johnny is the bottom of the hole, her relationship with Sylvie Vartan is gone once more into a spin. In the fall of 1972, he asked his friend Michel Mallory to offer him a song, here, now. This last gratouille his guitar. Johnny grabs the instrument, and goes to the end of the intention. Mallory wrote a text in the night, Johnny will sing as is. In the studios in london where the brass of the Rolling Stones are of passage, two jacks are enough. The music I love is born. Initially a B-side, it became the most famous composition signed Hallyday.

Oh ! Ma jolie Sarah (” Oh ! My poor Sarah / Thou hast given me thy body / Thank you, thank you for your effort “) : In 1971, Johnny Hallyday, for the first time call for a single author to write the texts of the album caught in the act. In verve, the journalist and writer Philippe Labro chisels his texts, as soon as the guitarist Mick Jones holds a melody. Rapidly became a classic of the singer, Oh ! My lovely Sarah is more cynical than it seems : if Johnny want to thank this Sarah to be offered to him, he apologizes at the same time be disappointed in the bed. In short, Johnny is not always a macho triumphant with women. Not in this song in all cases.

Something of Tennessee (” It has a floating feeling as a wanted/ This dream to us it was her cry to him “) : Michel Berger and France Gall are choirs. The few introductory words, drawn from the dialogues of the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a hot tin roof, are pronounced by Nathalie Baye, the companion of Hallyday in 1985. A tribute to the playwright american, Johnny is a fan, something Tennessee arises unquestionably at the top of the directory variety of Hallyday.

Envy (” it gives me the urge / want to want / it back on my life “) : When the young Jean-Jacques Goldman offers this song of Michel Sardou at the end of the seventies, this last is the fine mouth. Wrong. That’s not a problem, Goldman submits it a few years later to Johnny, still in search of the texts sounding like self-portraits. From the first listening, the rocker is won over and decides that the shy Jean-Jacques him to write the entirety of his new album. Gang was released in 1986 and will contain all the other conventional I wait for you, I promise you, Laura, and I’ll forget your name.

Kindle fire (” Kindle fire/ Kindle fire / And dancing devils and gods “) : For entry in scene of Johnny at the Stade de France, at the end of the summer of 1998, Pascal Obispo, in charge of the album What I know, want a song that bumps. He calls his girlfriend, Zazie and the challenges of delivering a text. It lays on a sheet of paper the first words that reminds him of the animal Hallyday (guitar, wolf, lion, arena, flame, lightning, etc.). It shakes everything, and Light the fire sees the light of day. Two months later, Zazie and Obispo are in the first row to hear live their creation, certainly one of the last great hymns of Hallyday.

Blood for blood (” I’ve not always found the words / rocking your dreams dchild/Together, we became great “) : The title is found by Sylvie Vartan when her son David told her that he will call for Johnny album ” 100 % Hallyday “. It corrects : this will eventually be… Blood for blood. Written by the journalist Eric Chemouny, this song is the speech of a father to his son that he was not high. The success is both artistic, critical and commercial. Released in 1999, the album sold over two million copies, historically the biggest score of the singer.

Mary (” Oh Mary if you knew / All the evil that you made me / Oh Marie if I could / In your arms bare me rest “) : In the studio, Johnny was sweating a lot, it is always necessary to push the aircon to the bottom. Gérald de Palmas is also in the water, but because he is intimidated. From the sentence “Oh Mary if you knew / All the evil that is done to me” and the embryo of a melody, it manages to offer a mock rocker, in 2002. Johnny waited a hymn of the stage, but he sings without renâcler, it is already that. Flows more than 1.4 million copies, the single will be the most sold by the singer, but they tire quickly interpret, during their concerts.

Of love (” I don’t know how I’ll manage /how need to know to cash “) : Christophe Miossec knows : with Johnny, you have to be direct, effective. In the company of Maxim Nucci, alias Yodelice, it addresses the composition of the album Of love. Hallyday is pronounced quickly, the whole is completed in ten days. On November 13, 2015, the day of the release of this disc scratched to the bone, worn by a single of the same name, France is besieged by murderous attacks. The next day, Johnny is on the stage of the Zénith de Strasbourg. He grabs a blue flag-white-red to his microphone, and the room is jamming a Marseillaise. Johnny, this is France.

Find our Out-of-Series ” The legend of Johnny Hallyday “, on newsstands this Thursday, 7 December.

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Jean-Jacques Goldman,Michel Berger

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