He scours TV sets and editorial offices to talk about his resumption of Blood for Blood. David Hallyday is everywhere, to promote this project which is close to his heart. In the new clip for the legendary song he wrote for Johnny Hallyday, we see him with his son, Cameron, in the same environment as in 1999, this billiard room that we see in the original clip. An intergenerational transmission, which highlights the bond between a father and his son, and which continues even when the elders inevitably die out. Guest on the set of Daily on April 24, 2024, he explains that he did not want to distort reality by including Johnny in his music video. He lives absence on a daily basis, he sublimates it through music, too..
New musical projects in honor of Johnny
After this single, the album Requiem for a fool will be released in June. A real challenge, that of covering the hits of the legendary singer, which does not scare him. “This challenge, which is risky, I quite liked”he says in Daily. From November, he will go on tour with more than 100 dates, to the delight of fans. They seem delighted by this news, on Instagram, and not the least disappointed by the fact that the son covers the father’s songs. On the contrary. A risky choice and well received by the public, which still required a crucial step before being made possible. Indeed, Lætitia Hallyday shares music rights with her late husband’s two eldest children. Everyone therefore had to agree for this project of reinterpretation of the taulier repertoire to succeed.
According to David Hallyday, this happened naturally. In an interview from April 24, 2024 to Parisianthe singer declared: “I’m doing this within the rules. It’s great that it’s happening like this. We communicate on legal issues so that everyone agrees. It would have been a little inappropriate [Lætitia] denied.” In Dailyhe confided that his father had asked him to write a second album, after the resounding success of Blood for blood — the best-selling album of his career — but which he had refused, after writing the first five tracks. “A magical moment is destined to only exist once, that’s what I think“, he explained. However, six years after his father’s death, he proposed Requiem for a fool, his reinterpretation of the singer’s legendary titles. Johnny will have had his second album, despite everything.