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This is Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday

℗ 2012 

℗ 2013 barin.livejournal.com BR LLJ 70746

℗ 2012 : disc 1

℗ 2012 : disc 2

Johnny Hallyday • 2012 • This is Johnny Hallyday

Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock revolution, Hallyday became famous in the 1960s for singing rock and roll in French. His debut single, 'Laisse les filles' was released on the Vogue label in March 1960.[10] His first album, Hello Johnny, was released in 1960. In 1961 his cover of 'Let's Twist Again' sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It topped almost every European chart, although the track did not appear in the UK Singles Chart. 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 also staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of the late Bruno Coquatrix. For their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Evreux on 13 October 1966. Black and white footage, also from October 1966, exists of Hallyday partying with Hendrix, his manager Chas Chandler and others.

At the end of the 1960s, Hallyday made a string of albums with Mick Jones and Tommy Brown as musical directors, and Big Jim Sullivan, Bobby Graham and Jimmy Page as session musicians. These are Jeune Homme, Riviere... Ouvre ton Lit (aka Je suis ne dans la rue) and Vie. On Je suis ne dans la rue, Hallyday also hired both Peter Frampton and the Small Faces. Amongst their contributions are the songs 'Amen (Bang Bang)', 'Reclamation (News Report)' and 'Regarde Pour Moi (What You Will)' which are variations of Small Faces and Humble Pie – which was Frampton's band – tracks and they can be heard playing on the album. Often forgotten is Hallyday's non-LP single and EP track 'Que Je T'aime' from the same sessions. By 1969 alone, his sales of records exceeded twelve million.

One of Hallyday's later concerts, 100% Johnny: Live a La Tour Eiffel in 2000, attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5 million television viewers (the show was broadcast live on French TV). In December 2005, Hallyday had his third number-one single in France, 'Mon Plus Beau Noel' (after 'Tous ensemble' and 'Marie'), dedicated to his adopted daughter Jade. Shortly before announcing his retirement from touring, he released a blues-flavored album, Le C?ur d'un homme, on 12 November 2007. The album hit #1 in both France and French-speaking Belgium. In addition to the lead single 'Always', Le C?ur d'un homme features 'T'aimer si mal', a duet with bluesman Taj Mahal and 'I Am the Blues', an English-language song written for Hallyday by U2 frontman Bono. His next album, Ca ne finira jamais, released in 2008, another #1 on the French album chart, and its lead single, 'Ca n'finira jamais', also reached #1. In 2008 he recorded a series of acoustic songs with French musician Drexl Jonez. Hallyday's most recent album, also a #1 hit in France, is Tour 66: Stade de France 2009, a live set recorded at Stade de France during his farewell tour with appearances by Drexl Jonez on the guitar.

French movie producers Michele and Laurent Petin introduced Johnny Hallyday to Hong Kong film director Johnny To. Hallyday was cast as the main role of To's Vengeance after meeting with the director in early 2008. The shooting began in November 2008 and concluded in February 2009."