The night with me. It is a new title of Johnny Hallyday who was sleeping on tapes and who was exhumed on the occasion of the release of a box celebrating the 1969 year of the rocker, released this Friday, May 29.
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This song is part of Rivière's recording sessions ... Open your bed, which appeared that year, but was left out at the time. " I have no explanation, musically, it is in the same vein as the rest of the album, with guitar-bass-drums, it's pretty rock ", said AFP Xavier Perrot, manager artistic from the Hallyday catalog at Universal, which is one of the discoverers of this nugget.
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" We tried to restore it with the intention of the time, that is to say that Johnny had gone to look for London - it is the French interpreter who recorded the most in England or in the United States - a particular sound, with the instruments in front ”, he continues.
" I want someone to share my joy / Head in the smoke for the night with me, " we hear Johnny sing, who already had a ten-year career behind him at the time. The tapes of Johnny's recording sessions - " It's our treasure, it looks like spools of just under 30 cm in diameter " - rest, " at constant humidity and temperature in a warehouse near Paris ", Continues Xavier Perrot.
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Will we find other new ones in the future? " It is not impossible that we find others, but I cannot guarantee it, there are no rules. In my opinion, if it is found, it will be counted on the fingers of one hand. With digital, you can keep everything from a recording session. But with tapes, when we had to make room, some choices were radical and things were necessarily deleted, ”explains the manager of this new edition. The Johnny 69 box, in addition to this unique, presents many rarities, in the studio or concerts.