Iconic French rock star dies... 100+ million records sold and yet hardly known outside France.
Part of the soundtrack of holidays in the 70s and 80s.
Part of the soundtrack of holidays in the 70s and 80s.
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[Music] Johnny Hallyday REP
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OzMike
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I'm going to Google people who have died today with tenuous links to something or other.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
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I thought this was going to be a thread about Johnny who works as a holiday rep.
Thunder Bolt
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I still have a single of his from the 60s.
Paris
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He did well to hang around for as long as he did. 74 was a good innings.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Indeed. French jukeboxes of the day had playlists made up almost entirely of tracks by Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan.
Monkey Man
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We were forced to learn about him as part of French lessons in the early 80s. Amazing that he remained so culturally important to the French for so long. I honestly couldn't tell you any of his songs.
severnside gull
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He was actually big in the UK in the early 60's and would have qualified as a household name here back then
pearl
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pearl
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You don't have to do that... it is on the front page of the BBC News website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42247551
Uncle C
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Shame he couldn't be bothered to sing in English.
Cowfold Seagull
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I suspect that very few people outside of France could either.
pearl
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Thunder Bolt
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Except us oldies. He covered The House of the Rising Sun called Le Pénitencier.
No it isn't! It's late middle age.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Same here (late 80s/ early 90s)
All our French textbooks contained photos of him, Edith Piaf, Tintin, Pierre Trudeau and various other French (speaking) people that none of us thirteen year olds had ever heard of.
We never actually had to learn about them, but I definitely remember their names popping up in whatever the books were called.