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Johnny Hallyday From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Johnny Hallyday Johnny Hallyday in 2003 Background information Birth name Jean-Philippe Smet Born June 15, 1942 (1942-06-15) (age 66) Origin Cité Malesherbes, Paris, France Years active 1959 - Present Label(s) Warner Music, France Website http://www.johnnyhallyday.com/ Johnny Hallyday (born Jean-Philippe Smet; June 15, 1943) is a French singer and actor.[1] An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he is considered by some to be the French superior of Elvis Presley. Hallyday has had a 48-year career in music and is one of France's biggest stars. He has completed 400 tours, had 18 platinum albums, performed in front of 15 million people, and sold 100 million records. Today Hallyday is still seen as a top stage performer, giving first class shows in crowded stadiums. Hallyday announced his retirement from performing on 3 December 2007 at the age of 64,[2] after his last tour, scheduled in 2009-2010. Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Trivia 4 Albums 4.1 Studio albums 4.2 Live albums 5 Films 6 See also 7 References 8 External links [edit] Early life Hallyday was born Jean-Phillipe Smet in Cité Malesherbes, Paris, France. His mother, Huguette (1919-2007) was French, while his Belgian father, Léon Smet, was a Bohemian celebrity who committed suicide. Hallyday's parents separated not long after he was born, and he was raised by his aunt and uncle. [edit] Career Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock revolution, Johnny, as he is popularly known, became famous in the 1960s for singing rock and roll in French. His first album, Hello Johnny, was released in 1960.[3] He appeared on the American Ed Sullivan Show on July 1, 1962 with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. Many consider Hallyday to have developed well and become a greater performer in his later years, one of his best loved concerts being 100% Johnny: Live à La Tour Eiffel in 2000, which attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5 million television viewers (the show was broadcast live on French TV).[4] In December 2005, Hallyday had his third number-one single in France, "Mon Plus Beau Noël" (after "Tous ensemble" and "Marie"), dedicated to his adopted girl Jade. Hallyday's last album was released on 12 November 2007. Le Cœur d'un homme is a blues album and contains a song written for Hallyday by Bono from the band U2, and a duo with bluesman Taj Mahal. "Always" is the first track to be released from the new album. He remains quite unknown outside of France, thus earning the nickname "the biggest rock star you've never heard of" in English-speaking countries. [edit] Trivia Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (November 2007) Hallyday hired Peter Frampton and the Small Faces to record on his 1969 album Rivière... Ouvre ton Lit. 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 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.[5] For their first concert, the Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Evreux on October 13, 1966. B/W footage also from October, 1966 exists of Hallyday partying w/Jimi, and his manager Chas Chandler, and others, and is easily found on YouTube. In November 2005, he started a procedure to obtain Belgian citizenship, but his request was turned down in 2006 because he failed to fulfill the residency requirements. In late 2006, Hallyday announced that he would move his permanent residency to Gstaad, Switzerland, to escape the high tax rate imposed by the French government. Swiss law allows wealthy individuals to claim residency if they live six months and one day in the country and then pay a fixed tax based on expenses, such as rent or assets in Switzerland, rather than a percentage of their income. Hallyday has said that he would move his residency back to France if it changes its tax laws.[6] Hallyday supported Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 French presidential election. In an ironic twist, when the Canadian comedy duo the Masked Avengers prank called American vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin by pretending to be Sarkozy, they named Hallyday as Sarkozy's "Special American Advisor." [edit] Albums [edit] Studio albums Hello Johnny (1960, Vogue) Nous les Gars, Nous les Filles (1961, Vogue) Tête a Tête avec Johnny (1961, Vogue) Salut les Copains! (1961, Philips) Johnny Hallyday sings America's Rockin' Hits (1962, Philips) Les Bras en Croix (1963, Philips) Les Rocks les Plus Terribles (1964, Philips) Halleluyah (1965, Philips) Johnny Chante Hallyday (1965, Philips) La Génération Perdue (1966, Philips) Johnny 67 (1967, Philips) Jeune Homme (1968, Philips) Rêve et Amour (1968, Philips) Rivière... Ouvre ton Lit (1969, Philips) Vie (1970, Philips) Flagrant Délit (1971, Philips) Country-Folk-Rock (1972, Philips) Insolitudes (1973, Philips) Je t'Aime, Je t'Aime, Je t'Aime (1974, Philips) Rock'n Slow (1974, Philips) Rock a Memphis (1975, Philips) La Terre Promise (1975, Philips) Derrière l'Amour (1976, Philips) Hamlet (1976, Philips) C'est la Vie (1977, Philips) Solitudes a Deux (1978, Philips) Hollywood (1979, Philips) À Partir de Maintenant... (1980, Philips) En Pièces Détachées (1981, Philips) Pas Facile (1981, Philips) Quelque Part un Aigle (1982, Philips) La Peur (1982, Philips) Entre Violence et Violon (1983, Philips) Hallyday 84: Nashville en Direct (1984, Philips) En V.O. (1984, Philips) Rock'n'Roll Attitude (1985, Philips) Gang (1986, Philips) Cadillac (1989, Philips) Ça ne change pas un homme (1991, Philips) Rough Town (1994, Philips) Lorada (1995, Philips) Ce que je sais (1998, Philips) Sang pour sang (1999, Philips) À la vie, à la mort ! (2002, Mercury) Ma Vérité (2005, Mercury) Le Cœur d'un homme (2007, Warner Music France) Ca ne finira jamais (2008, Warner Music France) [edit] Live albums Johnny et Ses Fans au Festival de Rock'n'Roll (1961, Vogue) À l'Olympia (1962, Philips) Olympia 64 (1964, Philips) Olympia 67 (1967, Philips) Au Palais des Sports (1967, Philips) Que Je t'Aime (1969, Philips) Live at the Palais des Sports (1971, Philips) Palais des Sports (1976, Philips) Pavillon de Paris (1979, Philips) Live (1981, Universal Music) Palais des Sports 1982 (1982, Universal Music) Au Zénith (1984, Universal Music) À Bercy (1987, Universal Music) Dans la Chaleur de Bercy (1990, Universal Music) Bercy 92 (1992, Universal Music) Parc des Princes (1993, Universal Music) À La Cigale (1994, Universal Music) Lorada Tour (1995, Universal Music) Destination Vegas (1996, Universal Music) Johnny Allume le Feu: Stade de France 98 (1998, Universal Music) 100% Johnny: Live a La Tour Eiffel (2000, Universal Music) Olympia 2000 (2000, Universal Music) Parc des Princes 2003 (2003, Universal Music) Flashback Tour Live (2006, Warner Music) La Cigale (2007, Warner Music) [edit] Films L'aventure c'est l'aventure (1974) as himself Détective (1985) directed by Jean-Luc Godard Why Not Me? (1999) as José L'homme du train (The Man on the Train) (aka Man on the Train in the US) (2002) as Milan Crime Spree (2003) as Marcel Burot Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004) as L'ermite borgne Quartier V.I.P. (2005) as Alex Jean-Philippe (2006) as Jean-Philippe Vengeance (2009) as Francis Costello The Pink Panther 2 (2009) as Laurence Millikin [edit] See also List of best-selling music artists Elvis Presley Karel Gott [edit] References ^ Hallyday - place/date birth Official site ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7124909.stm ^ Hallyday - influenced by Elvis Presley [1] ^ Cite error: Invalid
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