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
Johnny Hallyday was France's first and only fully fledged rock zoom along. Other French artists may bear been influenced by rock & twine, merely 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, nsported him between gigs in a Rolls-Royce. It was a fiscal cataclysm, mitigated fairly by his reconciliation with Vartan in 1973. Together they recorded a demolish twain, "J'ai un Problème," that became one of the biggest hits of the summertime. On his have, Hallyday besides scored with "Toute la Musique Que J'aime," written with his primary quisling for practically of the '70s, Michel Mallory. He played out portion of 1974 in America, recording an record album of rock-and-roll standards in Memphis (Rock candy à Memphis) and some other of country-rock in Nashville (La Terre Promise); he besides rode across Death Valley on a bike, and accompanied Elvis' Las Vegas revue. The following yr, he and his syndicate resettled to Los Angeles in order to flight a massive assess debt of about century meg 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"; even, his double-LP recording of the rock'n'roll opera house Hamlet was a exceptional flop.Hallyday collapsed onstage during an August 1980 concert, and his matrimony to Vartan broke up for well by the end of the year; rumors just around his secret life swirled, and one newspaper publisher erroneously reported his death in early 1981. Late that twelvemonth, he married model Babeth Etienne, a union that lasted non much more than than two months. Not long later on, he struck up a romanticism with actress Nathalie Baye, world Health Organization pudding head him a daughter, Laura, in recent 1983. Meanwhile, his lyrist, Michel Mallory, was replaced first by Pierre Billon, then Michel Berger, a writer grounded more than in traditional cabaret and pop up than stone & revolve. Berger was part responsible for for 1985's "Quelque Chose de Tennessee," which became 1 of Hallyday's biggest and best-known hits. Hallyday as well reanimated his flagging motion picture calling in 1985 by teaming with fabled French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard for
Détective; he would go forward to come out regularly in films through the early '90s. His romance with Baye over in 1986, but that year he henpecked the charts with the Jean-Jacques Goldman-penned album Gang, one of his biggest latter-day successes thanks to hits like "Laura," "L'Envie," "Je Te Promets," and a duo with Carmel, "J'oublierai Ton Nom." 1989's Cadillac featured 2 songs by Hallyday's word David, wHO would shortly go on to his own blab calling.Hallyday remarried again in 1990, this time to Adeline Blondiau, the girl of a longtime admirer; this as well proven short-lived, and they divorced in 1992. In the meantime, he released a new album, 1991's Ça Ne Change Pas un Homme, which featured covers of everyone from new-generation French pop star Patrick Bruel to Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams. In anamnesis of Hallyday's 50th birthday in 1993, his built-in catalogue was reissued on CD (with legion compilations appearing thereafter), and he gave a series of gala matter concerts in Paris. The 1994 English-language album
Rough Town tanked, but 1995's Lorada was a horrendous success, spawning hit singles in "J'la Croise Tous les Matins," "Quand le Masque Tombe," and "Ne M'oublie Pas." In 1996, Hallyday embarked on his fifth marriage, this fourth dimension to Laeticia Boudou; he as well recorded some other album of rock & roll classics in French,
Name and address Vegas, highborn in mention 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 World Cup association football tournament and remember France's first-class honours degree championship. In 1999, Hallyday returned with the successful new record album
American ginseng Pour Sang, for which his logos David composed all the music (tended to by several lyricists). Taking a break from recording and touring, Hallyday rang in the new millenary with a brace of acclaimed playacting turns in the films
L'Homme du Train and
Crime Spree. In late 2002, he released the forked album À la Vie, à la Mort, which produced the reach singles "Marie" and "Ne Reviens Pas."
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