15 June 1943 – 6 December 2017
The singer and former model recalls the French rock star, a complex figure who started young, lived to perform and was loved by an entire nation
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I met Johnny Hallyday for the first time as a teenager – I was at school with his son David and sometimes I would see him at David’s parties. I met him a few times over the years but didn’t get to know him properly until I got married. He was a good friend of my husband [former French president Nicolas Sarkozy], who knew him for years – he went to his first Johnny Hallyday concert when he was 13, at the Olympia in Paris, with Jimi Hendrix as the opening act.
When we got married, I got to see Johnny quite a lot. He was a very simple, kind man with a lot of charisma – he was big, strong, tall and very handsome. On stage he was really amazing. He was one of these artists who burns, like Elvis or Edith Piaf. He would sing like he was going to die the very next minute. He was a good actor too – the only problem was that his presence was so strong, it was hard to forget it was him.
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