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French musician and actor (–)

Johnny Hallyday
Hallyday performing in Milan in
Born	Jean-Philippe Léo Smet ()15 June Paris, France
Died	5 December () (aged&#;74) Marnes-la-Coquette, France
Resting place	Lorient, Saint Barthélemy, parish church cemetery
Occupations	Singer-songwriter musician actor
Spouses	Sylvie Vartan &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Babeth Étienne &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Adeline Blondieau &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Læticia Boudou &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Partners	Sabina () Nathalie Baye (–) Gisèle Galante (–) Leah (–)
Children	4 (including David and Laura)
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Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃filipleosmɛt]; 15 June – 5 December ), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited with having brought rock and roll to France.^[1][2][3]

During a career spanning 57 years, he released 79 albums and sold more than million records worldwide,^[4][5] mainly in the French-speaking world, making him one of the best-selling artists in the world.^[6] He had five diamond albums, 40 gold albums, 22 platinum albums and earned ten Victoires de la Musique.^[7] He sang an estimated 1, songs and performed duets with artists.^[8] Credited for his strong voice and his spectacular shows, he sometimes arrived by entering a stadium through the crowd and once by jumping from a helicopter above the Stade de France, where he performed 9 times.

Among his 3, shows completed in tours, the most memorable were at Parc des Princes in , at the Stade de France in , just after France's win in the FIFA World Cup, as well as at the Eiffel Tower in , which had record-breaking ticket sales for a French artist.^{[citation needed]} A million spectators gathered to see his performance at the Eiffel Tower, with some 10 million watching on television.

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Usually working with the best French artists and musicians of his time, he collaborated with Charles Aznavour, Michel Berger and Jean-Jacques Goldman. Hugely popular in France, he was referred to as simply "Johnny" and seen as a "national monument"^{[citation needed]} and a part of the French cultural legacy.

He was a symbol of the Trente Glorieuses when he emerged in and a familiar figure to four generations. More than 2, magazine covers and books were dedicated to him during his lifetime, making him one of the people most widely covered by the media in France. His death from cancer in was followed by a "popular tribute" during which a million people attended the procession and 15&#;million others watched the ceremony on TV.

He remained relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, where he was dubbed "the biggest rock star you've never heard of" and introduced as the French version of Elvis Presley.^[9]

Early life

Jean-Philippe Smet was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris on 15 June to a Belgian father, Léon Smet,^[10] and a French mother, Huguette Eugénie Pierrette Clerc.

Léon Smet, who worked as a nightclub performer, left his wife and son a few months later. Clerc started a modeling career, which left her with little time to care for her son.^[11] Hallyday grew up with his aunt, Hélène Mar,^[12] and took his stage name from a cousin-in-law from Oklahoma (Lemoine Ketcham) who performed as Lee Halliday.

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The latter called Smet "Johnny" and became a father figure, introducing him to American music.^[13]

Career

Influenced by Elvis Presley and the s rock n' roll revolution, Hallyday became known for singing rock 'n' roll in French. His debut single, "T'aimer follement" ("Love you madly"), a French adaption of the controversial Floyd Robinson hit "Makin' Love" that was also a hit for Dalida the month prior, was released on the Vogue label in March ^[14] His debut album, Hello Johnny, was released later that year.^[15] In , his French-language cover of "Let's Twist Again", "Viens Danser Le Twist", sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.^[16] It topped almost every European chart, although the track did not appear in the UK Singles Chart.^[17] He appeared on the American The Ed Sullivan Show with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris.

He staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of Bruno Coquatrix. For their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Nancy on 14 October Film footage from October exists of Hallyday partying with Hendrix, his manager Chas Chandler and others.^[18] He also socialised with Keith Richards and Bob Dylan.^[19]

At the end of the s, Hallyday made a string of albums with Foreigner's Mick Jones^[20] and Tommy Brown as musical directors, and Big Jim Sullivan, Bobby Graham and Jimmy Page as session musicians.

These are Jeune homme, Rivière Ouvre ton lit (also known as Je suis né dans la rue) and Vie. On Je suis né dans la rue, Hallyday hired both Peter Frampton and the Small Faces and they all play on most of the tracks on the album.

Johnny hallyday: In , after his cousin Menen left the family ship to live life with an American singer, Dester and Lee form a duo called "Hallidays" with an "i" and achieve triumph in Europe with their spectacular performance. Cutting his teeth singing at American army bases, his shtick was simply a passable impression of the King himself. In he had experimented with concert audio visuals on an ambitious scale while, in a neat comment on his roots and essential character as a performer, the show Johnny Circus was staged in a big top. In this year, all the cabarets in Paris refuse to invite him, not even allowing him to finish a song.

Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane of the Small Faces contributed their compositions "Amen (Bang Bang)", "Reclamation (News Report)", and "Regarde pour moi (What You Will)" to the album. "Amen" is a French-language variation on "That Man", a previously-released Small Faces song played in a heavy rock style. Tensions between the Small Faces during the recording sessions led to Marriott leaving the band and forming Humble Pie with Frampton, and rearranged English language versions of both "Reclamation (News Report)" and "Regarde pour moi (What You Will)" appeared on Humble Pie's debut LP of Often forgotten is Hallyday's non-LP single and EP track "Que je t'aime" from the same sessions.^[21] By alone, his record sales exceeded twelve million units.^[16]

One of Hallyday's later concerts, % Johnny: Live à la tour Eiffel in , attracted an audience of , and &#;million television viewers (the show was broadcast live on French TV).^[22] In December , Hallyday had his third number-one single on the French SNEP singles chart since its establishment in ,^[23] "Mon plus beau Noël" (after "Tous ensemble" and "Marie"), dedicated to his adopted daughter Jade.^[24] Shortly before announcing his retirement from touring in , he released a blues-flavored album, Le Cœur d'un homme.

In addition to the lead single "Always", Le Cœur d'un homme features "T'aimer si mal", a duet with blues musician Taj Mahal and "I Am the Blues", an English-language song (uncharacteristically for Hallyday) written by U2's lead singer Bono.^[25] His next album, Ça ne finira jamais, released in ,^[26] another No.

1 on the French album chart, and its lead single, "Ça n'finira jamais", also reached No. 1.^[27] Hallyday's album Tour Stade de France was a live set recorded at Stade de France during his farewell tour.^[28] In Hallyday released album Jamais seul, recorded with Matthieu Chedid, and started touring again.

In he gave concerts in different countries, including Russia, and released the album L'Attente. Later Hallyday released two live albums, On Stage and Born Rocker Tour (a recording of his 70th anniversary concerts in Bercy and Theatre de Paris). Albums named Rester Vivant and De L'Amour were released in and respectively.

In – Hallyday had the Rester Vivant Tour. A concert in Brussels was released as a live album in

Personal life

Marriages and children

Hallyday was married five times, including twice to the same woman, with the first four marriages ending in divorce. His last marriage was his longest, lasting twenty-one years.

His first marriage was to French singer Sylvie Vartan, lasting fifteen years from to ^[29] Their son David was born in His second marriage to Babeth Étienne was his shortest, lasting for 65 days.^[30] Hallyday had a four-year relationship with French actress Nathalie Baye. Their daughter Laura was born in ^[31] His third and fourth marriages were to the same woman, Adeline Blondieau, from to , and from to ^[32] Officiated by Nicolas Sarkozy, his fifth and final marriage was to Læticia Boudou from until his death.

The couple adopted two girls from Vietnam: Jade Odette Désirée, born 3 August (formerly Bùi Thị Hoà), in November ,^[33] and Joy in

Hallyday, who resided in Los Angeles, owned a chalet in the Swiss town of Gstaad from to to avoid the high tax rate imposed by the French government.^[13][34] Hallyday said that he would have moved his residency back to France if it changed its tax laws.^[35] In January , Hallyday said that his current residence was in the United States after an investigation by a Swiss journalist showed that Hallyday did not spend enough time in Gstaad to qualify as a resident.^[36] One of his favourite leisure activities was riding his Harley-Davidson on long trips through the California desert, staying in small motels along the way.^[37]

Illness and death

In July , Hallyday was diagnosed with colon cancer,^[38] and underwent surgery.

On 26 November ,^[39] Hallyday underwent surgery in Paris to repair a herniated disc. He suffered complications and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Doctors announced that they had put Hallyday into a medically-induced coma so they could repair lesions that had formed as a result of the surgery, and to relieve his pain.

On 17 December , Hallyday and his wife started legal proceedings against Stephane Delajoux, the doctor who had performed the original surgery.^[40] The conflict was resolved in February following Delajoux's vindication by medical investigators.^[41]

Hallyday died of lung cancer at &#;pm on 5 December ^[42] in Marnes-la-Coquette, near Paris, at the age of ^{[43][13][44][45]} French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute, saying he "transcended generations and is etched in the memory of the French people".^[46] On 9 December, his funeral was held in Paris; , lined the Champs-Élysées as his body was taken to the Madeleine Church.

The service was attended by Macron and two of his predecessors.^[47]

He was buried on the French Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy in the cemetery of Lorient parish church (Église de Lorient) on 11 December ^[48]

In February , his two oldest children, David and Laura, announced that they were contesting his will, which left his entire estate to his last wife Læticia and their two adopted children.

The will was drafted in the US, and their lawyers contended that this violated French law, which prevents children from being disinherited.^[49]

Legacy

Hallyday was once called "the French Elvis".^[50][51]The Daily Beast described Hallyday as "a hip swiveling, leather-clad Gallic answer to Elvis Presley who shook up his home country's music scene with American-style rock-n-roll and bad-boy antics."^[52] He remained largely unknown outside the francophone world and was sometimes described as "the biggest rock star you've never heard of" in English-speaking countries.^[37][53][54] He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in ^[55] and Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) in ^[56]

Jimmy Buffett paid tribute to Johnny with his song "Johnny's Rhum" on his album Equal Strain On All Parts.

Discography

Main article: Johnny Hallyday discography

Studio albums

• Hello Johnny ()
• Nous les gars, nous les filles ()
• Tête à tête avec Johnny Hallyday ()
• Viens danser le twist ()
• Salut les copains ()
• Retiens la nuit ()
• Madison Twist ()
• L'Idole des jeunes ()
• Les Bras en croix ()
• Da dou ron ron ()
• Les guitares jouent ()
• Johnny, reviens&#;!

  Les Rocks les plus terribles ()

• Le Pénitencier ()
• Hallelujah ()
• Johnny chante Hallyday ()
• La Génération perdue ()
• Johnny 67 ()
• Jeune Homme ()
• Rêve et Amour ()
• Rivière… ouvre ton lit ()
• Vie ()
• Flagrant Délit ()
• Country, Folk, Rock ()
• Insolitudes ()
• Je t'aime, je t'aime, je t'aime ()
• Rock 'n' Slow ()
• Rock à Memphis ()
• La Terre promise ()
• Derrière l'amour ()
• Hamlet ()
• C'est la vie ()
• Solitudes à deux ()
• Hollywood ()
• À partir de maintenant ()
• En pièces détachées ()
• Pas facile ()
• Quelque part un aigle ()
• La Peur ()
• Entre violence et violon ()
• Nashville 84 ()
• En V.O. ()
• Drôle de métier ()
• Spécial Enfants du rock ()
• Rock'n'Roll Attitude ()
• Gang ()
• Cadillac ()
• Ça ne change pas un homme ()
• Lorada ()
• Destination Vegas ()
• Ce que je sais ()
• Sang pour sang ()
• À la vie, à la mort&#;! ()
• Ma vérité ()
• Le Cœur d'un homme ()
• Ça ne finira jamais ()
• Jamais seul ()
• L'Attente ()
• Rester vivant ()
• De l'amour ()

Foreign-language studio albums

• Sings America's Rockin' Hits ()
• In italiano ()
• Black es noir ()
• Rough Town ()

Posthumous studio albums

• Mon pays c'est l'amour ()

Films

Books

• Hallyday, Johnny ().

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• Hallyday, Johnny; Sthers, Amanda (). Dans mes yeux&#;: Johnny Hallyday se raconte à Amanda Sthers. Paris: Pocket. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;

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