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Francis Apesteguy, Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan et leur fils David arrivent au mariage de Xavier Gélin à la campagne en juin 1973.

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Jade Hallyday

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Sylvie Vartan and her son David Hallyday🌼🍁🌼

Via Sylvie Vartan FB🍁

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Bonne matinée 💙🆕️💙

David Hallyday 🎶 Le plus heureux des hommes

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Nouvel album!

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Tuesday Tunes 211: Live 8 - Not UK

  Last week I played a set of songs from the London concert for Live 8 – it’s here if you missed it – and said that I would also be playing a selection from other concerts around the world for the event. So here we are. There is no particular order to these: they are just songs I enjoyed from the various concerts to give you a feel for what took place. And I managed to find two which show the…

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David Hallyday bientôt en tournée Requiem pour Un fou et au Dôme de Paris (12 et 13/11/2024)

David Hallyday a fait son grand retour en chanson avec une reprise du titre "Sang pour Sang" pour la première fois en duo avec son illustre père, Johnny Hallyday. Le single annonce la sortie en juin prochain d'un album de reprises, un hommage supplémentaire à Johnny, intitulé "Requiem pour un fou". La tournée Requiem pour est fou est annoncée et passe les 12 et 13 novembre 2024 au Dôme de Paris.

David Hallyday entame une tournée historique, deux heures sur scène durant lesquelles les répertoires de David Hallyday et de Johnny Hallyday seront mêlés pour offrir la vision unique d’un fils sur l’œuvre de son père. Avec Requiem pour un fou, le chanteur s’apprête à revisiter certains des titres les plus emblématiques de son père, Johnny Hallyday Requiem pour un fou sera ainsi l’occasion de découvrir les reprises de Vivre pour le meilleur, Laura, Quelque chose de Tennessee, L’Envie, ou encore Je te promets. David Hallyday le précise : l’album a été fait avec l’accord de Laeticia Hallyday et de sa sœur Laura Smet.

Le site officiel de Requiem pour Un fou

Regardez le clip de David Hallyday & Johnny Hallyday - Sang pour sang (Clip officiel):

La tournée Requiem pour un fou :

02/11/2024 – Millesium à Epernay

05/11/2024 – Le Tigre à Compiègne

06/11/2024 – Sceneo à Longuenesse

08/11/2024 – Centre Athanor à Montluçon

10/11/2024 – Zénith de Lille

12/11/2024 – Dôme de Paris

13/11/2024 – Dôme de Paris

15/11/2024 – Zénith d’Amiens

16/11/2024 – Zénith de Nancy

17/11/2024 – Galaxie à Amnéville

19/11/2024 – Halle Tony Garnier à Lyon

20/11/2024 – Axone à Montbéliard

22/11/2024 – Le Phare à Chambéry

23/11/2024 – Nikaïa à Nice

24/11/2024 – Le Dôme à Marseille

26/11/2024 – Arena à Narbonne

27/11/2027 – Zénith de Montpellier

29/11/2024 – Zénith de Pau

30/11/2024 – Arena à Poitiers

01/12/2024 – Zénith de Nantes

04/12/2024 – ESP Mayenne à Laval

06/12/2024 – Antarès à Laval

07/12/2024 – Zénith de Rouen

08/12/2024 – Zénith de Caen

10/12/2024 – Zénith de Strasbourg

11/12/2024 – Zénith de Dijon

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365 Days of Music || 2023 || David Hallyday - Ooh La La || 11 April 2023

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Françoise Hardy

Icon of 60s music who sang of love as a source of ‘wretched, profound, endless questioning’

Françoise Hardy, who has died of cancer aged 80, shot to fame as part of France’s génération yé-yé, the jaunty transatlantic and cross-channel collision between French chanson and American rock’n’roll that also produced Johnny Hallyday and France Gall. But from the start, there was something that set her apart: a wistfulness, a sentimental self-reflection, a poise that belied a lifelong shyness and insecurity. A 60s icon, as big, for a while, in London as in Paris, Hardy was, in many ways, the antithesis of that restive, revolutionary decade.

Unlike her contemporaries, when she sang of love it was about “suffering and frustration, illusion and disillusion; wretched, profound, endless questioning”. Her songs, she told Le Monde, were a necessary outlet: “I wrote about my experience … A beautiful, melancholic melody is what best transcends the pain.”

Men fell, in droves, for her timid beauty. Mick Jagger described Hardy as his “ideal woman”. David Bowie, “passionately in love” for years, courted her backstage, in dressing gown and embroidered slippers. In 1964, the sleeve notes of Another Side of Bob Dylan featured a whole poem “for françoise hardy/at the seine’s edge”. (Two years later, after a concert at the Olympia music hall in Paris, Dylan invited the singer to a party in his suite at the George V, one of the capital’s grandest hotels. In his bedroom, he played her two tracks from Blonde on Blonde: Just Like a Woman and I Want You. Hardy always insisted she was so starstruck she never got the message.)

But the love of Hardy’s life, the father of her son and the agonising inspiration for many of her songs, was the French singer and actor Jacques Dutronc, whom she met in 1967 and married in 1981. The couple separated in the 90s, but never divorced, remaining on good terms. “Love is a remarkable force, even if its price is perpetual torment,” she said. “But without that torment, I would not have written a single lyric.”

Hardy was born in Nazi-occupied Paris, in the same maternity clinic at the top of the rue des Martyrs in the ninth arrondissement that had delivered Hallyday a few months earlier. Her mother was Madeleine Hardy, an accountant, and her father, Pierre Dillard, was a company director who was married to another woman. Françoise grew up in a two-room apartment nearby with her sister, Michèle, born 18 months later, and a solitary mother with whom Françoise had a “fusional, symbiotic relationship … I loved her probably too much – exclusively, unconditionally”. The girls rarely saw their father, who often neglected to pay his share of their upkeep and was regularly late with the modest fees for their Catholic education.

Weekends were spent with grandparents – notably an “egocentric, narrow-minded, frigid and emasculating” grandmother – outside Paris; many childhood holidays with friends of her mother’s in Austria, to learn German. Shy, dreamy, deeply ashamed of her unconventional family, Hardy turned to the radio, where in the late 50s, on the English service of Radio Luxembourg, she encountered a music – Presley, the Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Cliff Richard – that “affected me more than anything else. That ended up changing my life.”

Aged 16, she asked for a guitar for passing the first part of her baccalauréat. A year later, having passed the second part with honours, she taught herself a handful of chords “that produced most of my songs over the next 10 years”, and began writing. At the Sorbonne, studying German, she auditioned, unsuccessfully but not disastrously, for one record company, and started singing lessons.

Hardy’s contract with Vogue Records – who wanted “a female Johnny Hallyday” – was signed on 14 November 1961. She made her first TV appearance, in black and white on the state broadcaster’s only channel, six months later, and released her debut EP, featuring three songs of her own and a cover of a Bobby Lee Trammell song.

Her breakthrough came, rather incongruously, on the night of Charles de Gaulle’s October 1962 referendum asking voters whether France’s future presidents should be directly elected. In a musical interlude while the nation awaited the result, Hardy performed a track from her EP, Tous les garçons et les filles. The nation loved it. The song (sample line: “I walk down the streets, my soul in sorrow”) became a monumental hit in France, spending a total of 15 weeks at No 1 between October 1962 and April 1963 and becoming a million-seller. Within weeks Hardy was on the cover of Paris Match, plunged, still in her teens, into the whirlwind of the swinging 60s (which she detested: she disapproved of casual sex, avoided drugs, and could only ever remember being drunk twice).

Her first boyfriend, the photographer Jean-Marie Périer, ensured her picture – miniskirt, white boots, long hair, signature fringe – went around the world. Courrèges, Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne competed to dress her, for seasons at the Olympia in Paris, the Savoy in London, and shows in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Canada and South Africa. In New York, William Klein photographed her for Vogue. Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard and John Frankenheimer cast her in films.

The hits flowed, recorded – some in London, produced by Charles Blackwell – in French, English, German, Italian, some written by Hardy, others not.

But at the end of the 60s, barely five years after she began, Hardy abruptly gave up performing live, and the cinema. “I hated what it all involved,” she explained. “Being separated from the man I loved, the waiting, the solitude, depending on the phone. And I’ve never been able to act. I can’t simulate, or lie. Songwriting, on the other hand … dives deep.” Life in the fast lane, she declared, was “a gilded prison”.

But she continued recording, releasing a dozen bestselling albums in France, of which she always cited La Question (1971), a sophisticated collaboration with the Brazilian musician Tuca, as her favourite. She duetted with French artists Henri Salvador, Alain Souchon and Benjamin Biolay, and later with Damon Albarn and Iggy Pop.

Hardy was never very interested in politics (she decamped to Corsica with Dutronc for the duration of les événements of May 1968, whose student leaders she distrusted), although she had strong opinions about questions such as abortion. Hardy was, however, fascinated by astrology, writing two books on the subject.

She continued to work in later life, despite claiming that her 1988 album, Décalages, would be her last. A string of new recordings in the 1990s and 2000s, a 2008 autobiography, Le Désespoir des Singes (the title apparently derived from a monkey puzzle tree in the Bagatelle gardens near her Paris flat, because its sharp, spiky leaves reminded her of “men who have caused me despair”), and her last album, Personne d’autre, released in 2018, appeared despite family and personal tragedies: Hardy was at her mother’s side when, suffering from Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, she died by euthanasia in 1994.

Hardy herself was diagnosed in 2004 with lymphoma, eventually recovering after an experimental form of chemotherapy – but only after she had been hospitalised, in an induced coma, in 2015. Three years later, another tumour was detected, this time in her ear. In 2021, she told the magazine Femme Actuelle (by email; she said she could no longer talk) that she would like to be able to choose to end her life, as her mother had done, and in 2023, in an interview with Paris Match, called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to legalise assisted dying.

Shortly before that second diagnosis, in 2018, Hardy reflected on a career that had brought pretty much every award French music can offer (plus a medal from the Académie Française), telling the Observer she had always been surprised that people – “even very good musicians” – had been moved by her voice.

“I know its limitations, I always have,” she said. “But I have chosen carefully. What a person sings is an expression of what they are. Luckily for me, the most beautiful songs are not happy songs. The songs we remember are the sad, romantic songs.”

She is survived by Dutronc, and by their son, Thomas.

🔔 Françoise Madeleine Hardy, singer, born 17 January 1944; died 11 June 2024

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he's my girl by david hallyday... but at what cost

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Exercice pleinement réussi pour Adeline Toniutti avec son one woman show à l'américaine qui nous raconte son histoire, son destin.

Je ne me suis pas ennuyée une seconde. La dame rousse a du talent. Son récital offre des scènes théâtralisées sur le ton d'une confidence dramatique et drôle à la fois. Ce récital offre aussi le répertoire d'Adeline avec ses compositions accompagnée pour ce faire de 21 Juin le duo

Cent commentaires à faire sur la beauté des textes. Et moi de pousser mon ami Philippe du coude pour lui demander : "Il est de qui ce texte ? Tu connais ?" (Au fait Philippe est psy pour ceux qui ont vu le spectacle).

Bref et le tout est joliment ficelé par un bon management. Celui de David Hardit

Le député dominant

Je terminerai par ce député qui s'est glissé dans le parcours d'Adeline. Je me suis reconnue dans cet entretien d'assistante parlementaire. Il m'est arrivé à moi aussi de refuser un poste "d'escorte" attachée parlementaire alors que j'en avais réellement besoin moi aussi.

Je suis évidemment ravie de ce passage qu'Adeline aura su consacrer à ce député.

Violences d'une vie

Une violence qu'elle aura subie d'un député et qui s'est ajoutée à celle d'une vie auprès d'un homme qui l'aura battue alors qu'elle venait de perdre sa voix sous les effets d'une cheminée qui lui a brûlé les cordes vocales.

Un psy ténor

Puis ensuite c'est la rencontre d'un psy ténor, la création de son école de chant, la Star Ac et la dame rousse poursuit son chemin de vie entre une étourdissante puissance de travail, une force organisationnelle hors paire et une créativité hors norme.

Le cri d'un regard

Je suis ravie de te voir sur scène jolie rousse avec laquelle j'ai eu plaisir à échanger sur le livre que j'ai écrit sur Johnny Hallyday dans mon appartement belfortain. Tu me posais tant de questions, vive d'esprit et curieuse que tu es. Nous échangions sur la gestion des carrières artistiques alors que j'entendais à peine le son de ta voix tout en entendant déjà le son de ta pugnacité et de ta détermination. Ton regard criait cette envie de rencontrer le public. C'est chose faite et avec élégance et puissance.

C'était un beau spectacle qui m'a donné envie de revoir Eric Koeberlé et Pierre Petey à Belfort et peut-être de t'entendre sur scène dans cette ville où j'ai eu le plaisir de te rencontrer.

Mais pour l'heure c'est une tournée française qui attend ton très beau spectacle que je recommande aux passionnés de chanson françaises, anglaises et allemandes mais je ne vais pas tout vous dévoiler. Voilà. Achetez vos places, vous ne le regrettez pas.

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J’ai quelque chose à vous dire (2018)

L’album de David Hallyday, paru le 7 décembre 2018, figure ici car comme il le dit : C’est un album qui m’a permis d’échapper à beaucoup de choses, à l’immense tristesse d’avoir perdu un proche et tout un tas de sentiments mélangés. Le meilleur moyen que j’ai trouvé pour m’exprimer, c’était d’écrire des chansons Cet album exutoire, écrit suite à la disparition de son père, lui rend hommage avec…