EAnother statue of Johnny which is difficult to convince… To form an opinion, you have to go to Port-Fréjus, in the Var, where an effigy of the rocker now sits at Place dou Galoubet: two hundred kilos of bronze inaugurated during the week – last end with great fanfare by hundreds of fans, including many bikers who had made the trip. The city wanted to pay tribute to a “long love story” with the singer, who gave a first concert in the town in 1966, almost 60 years ago…
We discover the smiling rocker, in the blue outfit he wore for his concert at the Parc de Princes in June 1993, microphone in hand. An order placed with an artist from Narbonne who had already created Charles Trenet and Jacques Brel. Except that the result is far from unanimous: Internet users did not fail to make their comments, finding the sculpture not very similar to its illustrious model, in particular the face…
“Is it Tintin? »
From the first photos shared on social networks, the critics went wild, as reported by the Pure Charts site: “We don’t recognize him at all”, “In bad taste”, “He’s been in the sun too much, poor guy », “Kitsch and cheesy”, “A waste”… While others have fun making comparisons: “Is it Tintin? », “He looks like Benoît Poelvoorde”, “Seriously, from the front, it looks like Franck Dubosc who is laughing”, while another believes that it is more “Stéphane Bern h […] Read more
