Looking for an unreleased Johnny Hallyday song is a bit like going on a dahu hunt.
The drawers of Universal Music, which houses most of the rocker's production, are desperately empty.
And for good reason.
The singer has recorded so many albums – 51 in total in just under fifty years – that few titles have remained on the floor.
However, this sleuth of Xavier Perrot, who specializes in perilous missions, recently made a great find.
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It is by assembling a new box of the idol dedicated to the year 1970 that a song remained unfindable for a long time has resurfaced.
If, in 1970, Johnny released the album
Vie
, one of the best loved in his long discography, he was not stingy with collaborations of all kinds.
Especially with cinema.
Thus the film
The Specialist,
released in April 1970, in which the singer made a remarkable appearance, a prelude to a career as an actor up and down.
The title track is available for the first time since Friday January 28, and it is an event.
If it lasts less than three minutes, the song is quite striking, in the manner of Johnny's production at that time. Either a rather nervous folk rock ballad, lined with acoustic guitars, in which the singer carves the portrait of this antihero. The text is by Georges Aber, close to the artist at that time, and the music by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino. It adorns the various versions of the album
Vie
, the texts of which were written by Philippe Labro, in particular that, very controversial at the time, of
Jesus Christ,
in which Johnny sang
Jesus Christ is a hippie
. Two years after the Johnny 69 box set, Johnny 70 brings together the album
Vie
, various singles, advertising jingles for a famous aniseed drink and a new concert in Cambrai, and the song
Le Spécialiste
.
