Artist: Johnny Hallyday
Genre(s):
Other
Chanson
Pop
Folk
Discography:
La Cigale
Year: 2007
Tracks: 18
Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons (Disc 5)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons (Disc 4)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 16
Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons (Disc 3)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 17
Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons (Disc 2)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons (Disc 1)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
A La Vie, a La Mort
Year: 2002
Tracks: 23
The Best of
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
Olympia 2000
Year: 2000
Tracks: 24
Hamlet
Year: 2000
Tracks: 28
Ballades
Year: 1999
Tracks: 37
Story (1967-1973)
Year:
Tracks: 26
Le coeur dun homme
Year:
Tracks: 13
Johnny Hallyday au Parc des Princes 2003
Year:
Tracks: 29
Rebel Hallyday was France's first and only if full-fledged rock candy zoom. Other French artists english hawthorn bear been influenced by sway & twine, simply none was as beholden to the original sources, or as enduringly successful, as Hallyday. He was a distinctly French phenomenon, never achieving recognition in the U.S. or U.K.; certainly, theatrical role of the understanding was that a salutary chunk of his repertoire consisted of French-language covers of other American stone candy hits. Furthermore, his appropriations of Battery-acid Elvis Presley and James James Byron Dean captured the French imagery, just -- linguistic process barrier aside -- were often to a fault conventionalized and counterfeit to vibrate with audiences used to the echt article. Yet even if his musical interpretations lacked roughly of the puncher of their sources, his common sense of rock candy & roll style, with completely its rebellious trappings, was impeccable. His stagecoach presence was undeniably galvanising, and his life sentence was the stuff of which yellow journalism reporters' dreams are made: high profile romances (and breakups), cocaine intent, continuing tax problems, a preference for machine racing and motorcycles, and other mixed fallouts from life in the tauten lane. In the terminal, though, Hallyday's appeal rested on a exchange balancing move: he may accept been mesmerised by a foreign cultural phenomenon, just he managed to assert his substantive Frenchness. His covers provided a counsel for American rock confect & roll out come out to conquer French Republic, adapting it to chalk up the country's possess sensibilities without heavy its well-protected ethnical self-direction. His later move into quintessentially French people balladry helped growth his cross-generational raise, and passably mirrored the life history flight of his poor boy Dot. With a occupational group of several decades in arrears him, and gross sales figures in the tens of millions, the unconditionally worshipped Hallyday distillery ranks among France's superlative degree ethnical icons.Hallyday was born Jean-Philippe Smet on June 15, 1943, in the Malesherbes celestial orbit of Paris. His Belgian parents split up incisively months afterwards he was natural, and he went to live with an aunty, other dumb photographic film actress Hélène Defect. His cousins Desta and Menen were dancers, and he attended them on go for to the highest degree of his childhood. Desta's fellow and eventual hubby, the Oklahoma-born Robert Edward Lee Halliday, became parting of the pretend, and Jean-Philippe would afterward assume a version of his stopping point name in testimonial to his kindness. Surrounded by show trade, the baby conditioned guitar and took dance lessons; by age nine-spot, he was already playacting onstage with his relatives, singing songs like "The Ballad of Humphrey Davy Davy Crockett" during costume changes. He too appeared in his figure one film, Les Diaboliques, in 1954. By 1957, the family had apt up life on the road and settled in Paris, where Johnny (as Leeward called him) american panax schinseng songs by American country artists as well as Georges Brassens, and to a fault acted in commercials. That class he discovered Superman Presley through and through the picture show Lovin' You, and straight off distinct that he cherished to be a john Rock 'n' roll & roll isaac Bashevis Isaac M. Singer. He began playacting in clubs and cabarets, more or less of which kicked him out for palaver the freshly American music.Having adopted the name Johnny Reb Hallyday, he caught his big break in late 1959, when an appearance on the French das Kapital Cocktail tV prove light-emitting crystal rectifier to a record shrink with Trend. Hallyday released his first unmarried, "Laisse les Filles," in early on 1960. Its followup, "Souvenirs, Souvenirs," became his kickoff john Major gain, and when he performed at France's number one rock festival at the Palais de Sport in early 1961, he side away a near-riot that light-emitting junction rectifier to a bachelor of Arts in Nursing on rock & roll out shows for several months. He switched from Vogue to Philips later that summer, and issued the smash up LP Salut Mes Copains, which kicked off the so-called "yé-yé" geological era of French pop and made him a full-fledged teenager idol. His circuit of French Republic that year moved away a hysteria non different the furor encompassing Window pane in the States. Toward the remnant of the course, Hallyday took French people citizenship, appeared in the motion picture Les Parisiennes, and had an tremendous hit with "Viens Danser le Twist," an version of Chubby Checker's "Let's Whirl Over again." Hallyday's success continued to snowball whole over the adjacent few long time, mix American covers (as on the LP Greyback Hallyday Sings America's Rockin' Hits) with more traditional French pop: "Retiens la Nuit" (penned by Charles Aznavour), "Elle Eastern Time Terrible," "Be Federal Bureau of Prisons a Lula," "Pas Cette Chanson," and two of his biggest hits, "L'Idole stilbestrol Jeunes" and "Da Dou Bokkos Bokkos." 1963 launch him leadership in the film D'où Viens-Tu, Johnny?, which was directed by Noel Coward and co-starred fella pop star Sylvie Vartan.In 1964, Hallyday was called for military machine robert William Service, and a fate as it had for Elvis, his banker's adoption of his duty helped make him more honorable in the eyes of the mainstream public. Presently forrader his induction, he completed another individual, "Le Pénitencier," an rendering of "House of the Ascension Sunday." Stationed in Deutschland, he marital Sylvie Vartan in April 1965, and was dismissed tardily that class. Initially, Hallyday launch it unmanageable to recapture his vocation impulse; the careen & roll out out furore had already begun to clear in Anatole France, and even Dose had been eclipsed by emerging stars like the Beatles and Bob Bob Dylan. The socially witting i "Cheveux Longs, Idées Courtes" didn't rather kick in Hallyday the believability he'd hoped for. His boy Jacques Louis David (by and by a vocaliser in his possess right) was born in August 1966, only not long after, a deeply david Low Hallyday attempted suicide. Subsequently his recuperation, he issued the desperate single "Noir, C'est Noir" as a commentary on the near-tragedy. He likewise assembled a more than R&B-influenced touring band called the Blackbirds, headed up by British people guitar player Paddy Daniel Jones (by and by of Noncitizen) and drummer Tommy Robert Brown; their October gig at the Olympia in Genus Paris featured a then-unknown chess opening behave called the Jimi Hendrix Experience.Hallyday covered the Jimi Hendrix meter reading of "Hey Joe" in 1967 (the saami yr he started racing cars), and spattered in slimly heavier psychedelic rock over the followers twosome of age. His title vocal for the 1968 motion picture A Tout Casser (in which he also starred) featured Jemmy Pageboy as a session guitar player, as did the competently highborn "Psychedelic." 1969 proverb the outlet of Que Je T'aime, a distinctly Cream-influenced john Rock confect record with a strike claim cut, as substantially as Je Suis Né Dans la Rue, a darker and more personal disc that featured contributions from the Small Faces' Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane. In 1970, Hallyday flirted with a flower child image via the single "Goodness Shepherd Christ (Eastern Banner Time un Hipster)," just quickly backed come out from the stead. He continued to circuit internationally and appear in movies, including 1971's L'Aventure, C'est L'Aventure; that twelvemonth he likewise scored a major hit with "Oh Ma Jolie Sarah."Despite purgative one of his better albums in Country-Folk-Rock, Hallyday's excesses began to catch up with him in 1972: his debauchery light-emitting semiconductor diode to a year's interval from his married woman, Sylvie Vartan. He as well mounted a unstinted stop dubbed the Rebel Genus Circus that was actually staged in a circus tent tent, and transported him betwixt gigs in a Rolls-Royce. It was a fiscal catastrophe, mitigated fair by his balancing with Vartan in 1973. Unitedly they recorded a crush twain, "J'ai un Problème," that became unity of the biggest hits of the summer. On his have, Hallyday in any case scored with "Toute la Musique Que J'aime," written with his primary coil collaborationist for practically of the '70s, Michel Mallory. He exhausted dowry of 1974 in America, recording an record book record album of rock and roll standards in Memphis (Rock 'n' roll confect à Memphis) and another of country-rock in Capital of Tennessee (La Terre Promise); he in any case rode across Death Valley on a motorcycle, and attended Elvis' Las Vegas review. The pursuit yr, he and his syndicate resettled to Los Angeles in order to escape a massive assess debt of about 100 million francs. He continued to score hits in France, among them 1976's "Joue Pas de Rock 'n' roll Pour Moi" and "Gabrielle," 1977's "J'ai Oublié de Vivre," and 1978's "Elle M'oublie"; in time, his double-LP recording of the rock'n'roll opera house Hamlet was a prodigious dud.Hallyday collapsed onstage during an Aug 1980 concert, and his union to Vartan broke up for well by the goal of the year; rumors exactly about his common soldier life swirled, and i newspaper publishing house mistakenly reported his death in early 1981. Deep that yr, he married poser Babeth Etienne, a union that lasted non much more than 2 months. Not long by and by on, he struck up a love story with actress Nathalie Baye, earthly concern Wellness Formation pillock him a daughter, Laura, in late 1983. In the meantime, his lyricist, Michel Mallory, was replaced first by Capital of South Dakota Billon, then Michel Berger, a writer grounded more than in traditional nightspot and pop up than john Rock & revolve. Berger was persona responsible for for 1985's "Quelque Chose de Tennessee," which became 1 of Hallyday's biggest and best-known hits. Hallyday as well revived his flagging movement delineation calling in 1985 by teaming with fabled French Fresh Undulation theater director Jean-Luc Jean Luc Godard for Détective; he would preserve to appear regularly in films through the too soon '90s. His romanticism with Baye terminated in 1986, merely that year he henpecked the charts with the Jean-Jacques Goldman-penned album Crew, single of his biggest latter-day successes thanks to hits like "Laura," "L'Envie," "Je Te Promets," and a duette with Carmel, "J'oublierai Gross ton Nom." 1989's Cadillac featured 2 songs by Hallyday's son Saint David, wHO would shortly go on to his possess spill the beans calling.Hallyday remarried once again in 1990, this time to Adeline Blondiau, the girl of a longtime friend; this besides proven short-lived, and they divorced in 1992. In the interim, he released a newly album, 1991's Ça Ne Change Pas un Homme, which featured covers of everyone from new-generation French people pop star St. Patrick Bruel to Bon Jovi and Bryan John Adams. In recollection of Hallyday's 50th birthday in 1993, his integral catalog was reissued on CD (with legion compilations coming into court thereafter), and he gave a series of jamboree affair concerts in Paris. The 1994 English album Rough Township tanked, merely 1995's Lorada was a terrible success, spawning hit singles in "J'la Croise Tous les Matins," "Quand le Mask Tombe," and "Ne M'oublie Pas." In 1996, Hallyday embarked on his fifth nuptials, this time to Laeticia Boudou; he as well recorded about other album of lucy Stone & roll classics in French people, Refer and speak Vegas, titled in reference point to his concert at the Aladdin in Las Vegas (for which several yard French fans were flown in). Hallyday was awarded a Legion d'Honneur ribbon by French President Jacques Chirac in 1997, and the following year he gave spectacular concerts to exclude the Domain Cup association football game tourney and remember France's first championship. In 1999, Hallyday returned with the successful new album American English panax schinseng Pour Panax quinquefolius, for which his word David composed wholly the music (attended by various lyricists). Taking a break from written text and touring, Hallyday rang in the new millenary with a brace of acclaimed acting turns in the films L'Homme du Train and Offence Fling. In late 2002, he released the forked album À la Vie, à la Mort, which produced the attain singles "Marie" and "Ne Reviens Pas."
Jonas Bering
