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[Music] Johnny Hallyday REP



Titanic

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Jul 5, 2003
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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.
 




Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
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I'm going to Google people who have died today with tenuous links to something or other.

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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

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I thought this was going to be a thread about Johnny who works as a holiday rep.
 








Tom Hark Preston Park

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Jul 6, 2003
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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.

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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Jan 30, 2005
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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.
 
















Boys 9d

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He also had great potential as a film actor. In L'homme du train (Man on a train) he was not outclassed by that fine actor Jean Rochefort.
 




Uncle C

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Shame he couldn't be bothered to sing in English.
 


Cowfold Seagull

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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.

I suspect that very few people outside of France could either.
 




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edna krabappel

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We were forced to learn about him as part of French lessons in the early 80s.

Same here (late 80s/ early 90s) :lol:

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.
 



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