Patrick Bruel was the guest of the show 50 Minutes Inside, this Saturday January 28. Facing Nikos Aliagas, the singer spoke of the death of his friend, Johnny Hallyday.
Five years later, the emotion is still very present. In December 2017, sad news was announced, that of the death of Johnny Hallyday. the rocker suffered from lung cancer for several years. It was a real shock for his fans, his relatives but also his friends. Among them, there is Patrick Bruel who is still very touched by the death of the husband of Laeticia Hallyday. Guest of the show 50 Minutes Inside this Saturday, January 28, the singer did not hesitate to make a new tribute to his friend. Nikos Aliagas first showed him images of Johnny Hallyday’s funeral during which Patrick Bruel had read a text. “I never saw those pictures again“, he first said before providing details: “I had written that the night he left. I did not think to say this text publicly“. However, the relatives of the rocker were very touched and the singer had no other choice. “I showed it to the family and they told me: ‘But you have to read it tomorrow’. It was moving this goodbye, it was strong“, he recalled, still upset.
Johnny Hallyday was a very popular artist and it is not Patrick Bruel who will say the opposite. During this interview, the singer did not hesitate to praise his friend. “Johnny, it says will, perseverance, work, it says desire”he first said before adding: “There is no word that sums it up better than the one Jean-Jacques wrote. The desire, the desire to want”. This is not the first time that Patrick Bruel pays a moving tribute to the rocker. In September 2021, many artists, long-time friends, came together during an exceptional concert organized by France 2. This was titled That I love you and Patrick Bruel was present for this special occasion. He had performed a title by his friend, alongside Patrick Fiori and Florent Pagny, Live for the best. A remarkable performance since the emotion was very present and the singer had explained to have been a little destabilized, ensuring that he had made a few false notes. “Effectively, Patrick missed a stanza and suddenly it made him anxiousbut then totally”, explained Bernard Montiel the day after the broadcast.
Patrick Bruel: “A solid friend I could count on”
Patrick Bruel and Johnny Hallyday are longtime friends who have long been inseparable. In 2021, it is in the columns of Tele-Leisure that Patrick Bruel had confided in his relationship with the rocker. “He was a star, a legend, an exceptional artist“, he had first explained. “I remember our first meeting: it was in 1984, I had come to see him in concert at the Zénith. I was accompanied by Monique Le Marci (Editor’s note: the director of the RTL antenna) and we went to greet him in his dressing room”, he had remembered. A meeting that Patrick Bruel has never forgotten. “And there, he said to me very kindly: ‘You have talent, you will go far’. I didn’t even imagine that he could then know my songs”, he continued, very touched. If they both went their own way, they had the opportunity to meet on several occasions. “Thereafter, our paths often crossed and we have forged a friendly and affectionate bond“, had concluded Patrick Bruel.