It's no secret: Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a fan of Johnny Hallyday.
The former prime minister (2002-2005) knows all the songs of the youth idol.
On the occasion of Thibaut Gauthier's show, “Le Figaro La Nuit”, the traveling weekly magazine of Le
Figaro
, Jean-Pierre Raffarin took part in a musical stroll within the exhibition Johnny, Porte de Versailles.
“
When I was 15-16 years old, I spent my night in front of the Hôtel de France in Poitiers when Johnny came to sing.
We were waiting to see him
,” explains the former senator.
“
Johnny was not a speaker, he used codes a lot.
Socially the Johnny phenomenon is interesting.
He had a very popular performance.
He could afford to sing at the Huma Festival like the election of Giscard.
»
And the Prime Minister made a revelation: “
When he came to perform at the Francofolies, in La Rochelle, I went to see him in his dressing room before the concert.
He told me
: “I have decided one thing, I am going to ask you to come and sing
That I love you
on stage”.
I refused...
"