Five years after the disappearance of Johnny Hallyday, December 5, 2017, Laeticia Hallyday gave herself up to the microphone of RTL.
Life as a couple, infidelity, pain of mourning … The widow notably announced the existence of unpublished works which will come out of the boxes
“when the time is right”,
she declared.
Johnny fans have already reveled in a few never-before-aired songs.
Among them,
The Specialist
, a folk rock ballad unveiled last January, more than half a century after its creation, the song having been recorded on the sidelines of the film of the same name in 1970.
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In May 2020, it was the unreleased title of 1969
La Nuit avec moi
, which was sleeping on tapes, which was unearthed on the occasion of the release of a box set celebrating the year 1969 of the rocker.
These titles were unearthed by Xavier Perrot, artistic director of the Hallyday catalog at Universal, whose drawers are desperately empty of unreleased titles.
Because neither Johnny Hallyday nor his publishers left titles lying around in a drawer.
Because he was not a songwriter, he mostly stuck to the ten songs he needed for his studio albums.
The rocker specialist, however, is optimistic about the discovery of rare bands.
“There are still many years to go.
I hope to discover others”,
he explained to
Figaro
, at the beginning of December.
Five years after Johnny's death, his work and his life will be the subject of many commemorations, between concerts at the cinema, show boxes, documentaries, beautiful books, exhibitions... To celebrate Johnny's death, M6 will broadcast on December 8 in particular William Karel's documentary,
Johnny by Laeticia,
in which the star's wife recounts "his Johnny":
"I gave 700 hours of images that I had not reviewed"
she explained on RTL .
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Among the tribute albums, Yarol Poupaud, guitarist at Le Taulier for six years, released
Fils de personne
, a cover album from the 1960s and 1970s. 1960-1970 to "
put the cursor back on rock
", as the guitarist-singer told AFP.
No suave titles like
I promise you
or
Laura
, but an album –
Son of no one
scheduled for Friday – which begins with an electric shock,
Voyage au pays des vivants
.
Simply titled
Johnny Hallyday the exhibition
, a retrospective will open its doors in Brussels on December 20, before Paris in January 2024, for a price ranging from 22.50 to 350 euros.
Something to delight the unconditional fans who tirelessly cultivate their idol.
The Hallyday myth has a bright future ahead of it.
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