This Thursday, December 5, Jean-Claude Camus was invited on the set of the talk show At Jordan's. The opportunity for the producer to the stars to look back on his career and evoke his memories with Johnny Hallyday… and in particular the singer's very first concert at the Stade de France, which was to take place on September 4, 1998… but which did not go at all as planned! Indeed, while 80,000 fans had been waiting for hours and in pouring rain for the arrival of the youth idol on stage, the authorities decided to cancel the concert, because of the deplorable weather conditions.
The cancellation of Johnny's first concert at the Stade de France in 1998: “It was a terrible moment.”
And it was Jean-Claude Camus, who had the difficult task of announcing to the public that they would not see Johnny that evening.It is with sadness in our soul that we are going to cancel this evening's performance” he said, inviting fans to come back the following week. Images which brought back a very bad memory for the producer. it was a terrible moment » he specifies before adding “ For the record, everyone told me what courage you had to go on stage… well no! After all these meetings, this nervous tension, where I was in a daze… » remembers the producer.
Jean-Claude Camus dropped by Miche Drucker: “Come on, let’s get out of here, Camus will get by”
And to add “ And who should make the announcement? Well, it was Michel Drucker since he was there! » But it was impossible to get hold of the host, who was eclipsed when the evening's disaster was announced, explains Jean-Claude Camus: “In fact, I only found out afterwards, but Michel had gone to Johnny's dressing room and said to him, 'Come on, let's get out of here, Camus is going to get out of here.' And there it is, so it was me who found myself with a microphone in my hand, the good words came out, I was lucky“He believes. And to conclude”The most dramatic thing was that the majority of the audience were die-hard fans, who had come from the four corners of France and abroad and we knew that a good part of them would not be able to return to the concert.“
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