The legend does not die. More than two years after the disappearance of the idol of young people at 74, the work of Johnny Hallyday continues to live. His cult hits, of course, but also unreleased tracks like the one unveiled this Friday and entitled "La Nuit avec moi". A song recorded in December 1968 at the Olympic Sound Studio in London, reports RTL, which was the first to broadcast an extract.
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- 🎙Info Julien76🎥🌍 (@ActuJujuFr_Off) May 22, 2020This title, an invitation to dance, will be discovered in a new box dedicated to rocker which will be released on May 29. Universal Musi announces "live never published" and "several rarities discovered among the hours of tapes used to record Rivière ... open your bed ", Johnny's album released in 1969.
A recording left "as raw as possible"
Among the rarities mentioned, "La Nuit avec moi", therefore, "which was not listed anywhere", specifies the record company. The song was also found in the middle of multi-tracks by Xavier Perrot, artistic manager of the Hallyday catalog at Universal.
"There is a part of mystery which makes that one discovers this song only today, explained this last to the microphone of RTL. At the time we had vinyl records that were only twenty minutes per side. So, at some point, there is a choice to be made… ”.
The recording was left "as raw as possible", explains Xavier Perrot. “We obviously mixed it while respecting the colors of the album: bass, drums, guitar. Something very rock. He is surrounded by wonderful musicians ”.
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