Johnny Hallyday died on February 5, 2017 from lung cancer, and would have been 81 this year. In his new album, his eldest son, David Hallyday, decided to pay tribute to him. Entitled Requiem for a foolthis album mixes his songs with those of his father, while rearranging them. As part of the promotion of this album, Sylvie Vartan’s son answered questions from the daily newspaper West France Friday June 28, 2024.”My first idea was to do a tribute to Sang pour sang (the album he composed and produced for his father) for the 25th anniversary of the record. I imagined an evening in an unusual place like the Opéra Garnier, in Paris, where we would have mixed, with also video montages, the rock and philharmonic sides, what my father always did, recounting this adventure lived together” explained Johnny Hallyday’s son.
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Ultimately, David Hallyday’s new album turned out to be very different. “It has nothing to do with it, because at that time I also listened to my old songs again. And I found that the production had aged badly, especially High (his first hit). So, I reworked the arrangements. Then, I wanted to do the same thing with Sang pour sang to give the album a more current, fresher note, as if I were making it today. In the end, (…)
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