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By Elsa Girard-Basset | Web journalist
Only son of Johnny Hallyday, David is back on the scene with an album and a tour with the evocative title: “Requiem pour un fou”, in reference to one of his father’s greatest hits. Moreover, the fifty-year-old has not always maintained an easy relationship with the “Taulier”, but an exchange between changed everything. Explanations.
It’s not easy being the son of a superstar, and there is no shortage of examples of this. Michel Sardou, for example, recently explained that he had not been a good father, rather distant and too little present in the lives of his offspring. Johnny Hallyday also made the same observation regarding David Hallyday and Laura Smet, which pushed him to then be very present for Jade and Joy.
If David has never hidden that his relationship with the “Taulier” has long been unequal, he who grew up in the United States with Sylvie Vartan far from his father, the two men were brought together by “Blood for blood”, the The album composed by the singer of “You didn’t leave me time” for his legendary father. And that’s when everything changed.
David Hallyday cash on his collaboration with Johnny
In an interview with Le Figaro, Estelle Lefébure’s former companion opened up about the genesis of this album, and about Johnny’s words which touched him a lot:
When he asked me to work with him, I was still in the United States and I had lost sight of French music a little. The first thing I said to him was, “Thank you, that makes me really happy, but I’m not sure I can be good for you.” He said, “I don’t care about that.”
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It seemed natural to me to work with him. A kind of magic happened during this period of my life. We had spent months together. He asked me at that time, I hesitated at first, but he told me: “It’s you that I want to work with. I know you’re going to offer me things I like.”
Afterwards, we no longer wanted to leave each other.
Until the end, “Sang pour sang” remained, as a symbol, Johnny’s biggest commercial success, notably thanks to the eponymous song, which perfectly sums up the father-son relationship as difficult as it is close between the rocker and David Hallyday :
David Hallyday knows it, he marked his father’s career by offering him this incredible album with many hits that have gone down to posterity. But this accomplishment is ultimately not much compared to the essential: this period allowed a father and a son to find each other, to finally understand each other and never let go of each other again. A moving story.
