The Old Scoundrels. If the trio, composed of Jacques Dutronc, Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday, no longer exists since the death of the latter on December 5, 2017, the memories remain. Thursday November 2, 2023, it was Jacques Dutronc who spoke, in the columns of Paris Match, on the one nicknamed “the Taulier”. “The media were very hard on him because he sang French rock’n’roll. During the Vieilles Canailles tour, in 2017, with Eddy Mitchell, he remembered the lyrics of these French adaptations of American hits and he laughed about it a lot”, he remembered with emotion. And to add: “Johnny has weathered all the criticism and he has become indestructible. Only the cigarettes ended up getting to his skin“. Jacques Dutronc then confided all the admiration he had for his friend: “Johnny Hallyday was made to be a star. He couldn’t have been a plumber or a surveyor. He was made for the stage. […] His presence was incredible“.
Johnny Hallyday and his fight against cancer
Johnny Hallyday was a force of nature and it is not the ex-companion of Françoise Hardy who will say the opposite. In an interview given to Parisian, shortly after the death of the rocker, Jacques Dutronc returned with emotion to the concerts that Johnny Hallyday honored with Les Vieilles Canailles in 2017, while he was in the middle of his fight against his lung cancer. “Everyone forgot he had this shitty crab, […] he really sent the potato and I knew he was in a lot of pain, it was terrible. […] It hurt for him.”he confided before adding: “Johnny’s illness worried us a lot and meant that we were attentive, we took care of him. It’s normal, between friends. He was wonderful. The day was goodbye and the evening it was the sphinx“. Died at the age of 74, the interpreter of numerous hits such asLight the fire Or The penitentiary always loved living life to the fullest, and never hid it. In the magazine Rock & FolkJohnny Hallyday declared: “I am a reasonable and unreasonable person. I try everything, but I stop. […] I’ve tried everything in my life, it’s true. But I know when to stop“. His love of cigarettes finally got the better of him. Since then, if the members of the Hallyday clan are torn apart, the rocker’s friends prefer to remember his immense talent.