Johnny | souvenirs

Johnny | souvenirs

It was the first time a few minutes ago, but all the visitors were sitting back.
At that time we all were in tsunami mode.
It was an incredible one that collected human wave at this stage foot
No wonder, Johnny Hillary, whose death was announced on Tuesday night, Johnny Hallyday focused on the show at the first time of the show.

I'm sorry I need to find you
This evening, November 8, 2014, Paris, Paris, Paris, Paris-Brussels, Syria for four concerts across six concerts programs.
Jack Dunnuk and Eddy Mitchell's three artists have taken the concept of this tournament to tour 17 cities in the summer of 2017.

But in 2014, it was an autumn season in Paris
Three French memorable friends, who offered an offer together
On the occasion, for the presence of Quebec journalists, he allowed his country to reduce the level of popularity of Haley.

I had seen Johnny several times in Quebec and even once in France, as a guest artist on the night of the show to celebrate Charles Savour's 80th birthday, on May 22, 2004, at the Calais ides Congress. But even a historical duet (On my life) with Aznavour, it's not like seeing an artist for more than two hours on stage in the city where he was dedicated 'legend' from the early 1960s.

And yet, Hollyday's aura was as strong in 2014 as in 1962 or 1964, when the idol of youngsters set the Olympia on fire. Neutron and Mitchell are not exactly second-rate stars in France. And in this unique show where three-quarters of the songs were performed in duet or trio, it seemed that the public saw no gap between the three artists.

This was not the case, however. When Hollyday took the floor to interpret Gabrielle and The Penitential in succession, we no longer felt like being in the arena of Paris-Mercy - the equivalent of the Bell Center - but at the Stade de France.

This kind of phenomenon that could be described as a teleportation of the mind, my faith, we had lived in Quebec, 17 years ago. In the year 2000, Johnny Hallyday returned to Quebec after 25 years of absence to present a trio of shows at the St-Denis theater.

Two concerts are announced, then another, which, because of the availability of the theater, becomes curiously the evening of the first.

The critics were unanimously laudatory. As a colleague was doing the criticism, I got a ticket in the sixth row at the pit for the second night, August 30, 2000.

Seeing such a phenomenon so closely and in this exceptional form - Hallyday was only 57 years old that night - it was already candy. And as I prefer the Hallyday vintage 1960s and 1970s, I was not disappointed to hear Black is black, The penitentiary, If I was a carpenter, I was born on the street, Son of nobody, The music that I like, Gabrielle, My mouth, etc. Totally fulfilled, the guy.

After envy, Johnny came out of the scene and several spectators knew he would return to interpret No I regret nothing. Hallyday always closed these concerts by playing a song by Piaf, Brel (When we only have love), Aznavour (On my life). That kind of immortal, what.

Hallyday comes back crumbling under the bravos, he grabbed the microphone, but he spreads his legs and said, "Uh, huh ..." In one second, I understood that it is not No I do not regret anything that would follow. When we heard "Be-Bop-A-Lula, she's my baby! "I believe that the ceiling of St. Denis almost crack as the clamor was immense.

Hallyday followed Gene Vincent's classic, Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins, but sung Elvis) and Whole Lotta Shakin's Going On (Jerry Lee Lewis). The unthinkable thing! The crowd was unleashed, the musicians played at the power ten, Hallyday swayed as if he was 15 years younger and no one was in the theater St-Denis. In any case, surely not me ... I was nothing less than teleported to 28 boulevard des Capucines, Olympia de Paris.