00:02Je ne sais pas comment je vais me débrouiller.
00:34Merci beaucoup.
00:36My first idol was Elvis, of course.
00:39He made me want to be a singer.
00:41I mean, I'd be a rock and roll singer.
00:45But it would be entirely wrong to dismiss Halladay as a French Elvis.
00:49He was far more.
00:50He captivated French young people in the 60s,
00:53introducing them to the twists, motorcycles, and fast cars.
00:56Elvis was abroad.
00:57Elvis was English-speaking.
01:00He was some kind of a myth.
01:02But Johnny was the rock and roll.
01:04He was the real rock and roll.
01:06The rock and roll that you can understand.
01:08About love.
01:10About fury.
01:11About rebellion.
01:14About riding a motorcycle.
01:16Having a brand new car.
01:18Every myth of the rock and roll was in Johnny's voice.
01:24Yet Halladay also branched out from his rock and roll origins,
01:28catching new trends as they came along,
01:30trying practically every sort of popular music,
01:33from rhythm and blues to country to acid rock.
01:36In all, throughout his long career,
01:38he recorded a thousand different titles and sold millions of records.
01:42He sold more records than David Bowie.
01:44In France!
01:46David Bowie worldwide sold 140.
01:50Johnny sold 150.
01:52It's like incredible when you think of the figures.
01:55And he's been playing the music of the French people since the 60s.
02:02Over the years, Halladay developed a bad boy notoriety,
02:06which turned off parents but just endeared him more to their children.
02:10As time went on, his reputation grew more and more scandalous.
02:13Alcohol, drugs, girlfriends, multiple marriages.
02:16He never denied any of it.
02:18And in fact, the gossipy stories just bounced off Halladay
02:21and seemed to enhance his career.
02:24Many times people said, that's it.
02:27That's the last straw.
02:28This is the thing that's going to stop his career.
02:30And it was never more evident than in the 90s,
02:35when on the front page, Johnny Halladay has a cocaine problem.
02:39His record company was worried and they thought, this is it.
02:43You know, Johnny is not gonna...
02:46But he always, the people regroup.
02:50He has this army of fans.
02:52Some of them have seen him hundreds of times.
02:55This is incredible.
02:56You have people who really follow his tours from city to city.
02:59And it was the tours Johnny and Johnny's fans looked for.
03:03He loved the live audiences and went on nearly 200 concert tours,
03:08playing not only the big cities, but to the jubilation and delight of his fans,
03:12he always managed to include small towns as well.
03:18If there was a disappointment for Halladay, it was that he could never seem to transfer his appeal outside the
03:24French-speaking world.
03:25He tried recording in English and going on tour in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but only with limited success.
03:35It didn't matter.
03:36In his homeland, Johnny Halladay was a legend.
03:39So much so that when it came time to commemorate the first anniversary of the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo,
03:45organizers chose Halladay to sing in tribute.
03:49Johnny Halladay, a rock and roller whose career was woven into the life of France for more than a half
03:55century.
04:01Which was the year for thecessor?
04:02Maybe He named a rock?
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