Paris, Boulevard de la Madeleine, December 2017
I suppose every country has at least one: a singer of popular songs about love and life, who found it difficult to deal with fame, women, alcohol, drugs, and the taxman. The French had Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, better known as Johnny Hallyday. Hallyday died of lung cancer in December 2017. On a cold Saturday afternoon, a motor cycle club accompanied Johnny's remains across the Champs-Élysées to the church of Madeleine in the heart of Paris, where his band played his songs and the president of the republic made a speech in front of tens of thousands of people. The audience was certainly not an average of modern-day Parisians: it was mostly white and older. A chic old lady stated that you did not have to like his music, but everybody loved his "personality". Tens of thousands of people where saying adieu to their youth.
Paris, Boulevard de la Madeleine, December 2017
I suppose every country has at least one: a singer of popular songs about love and life, who found it difficult to deal with fame, women, alcohol, drugs, and the taxman. The French had Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, better known as Johnny Hallyday. Hallyday died of lung cancer in December 2017. On a cold Saturday afternoon, a motor cycle club accompanied Johnny's remains across the Champs-Élysées to the church of Madeleine in the heart of Paris, where his band played his songs and the president of the republic made a speech in front of tens of thousands of people. The audience was certainly not an average of modern-day Parisians: it was mostly white and older. A chic old lady stated that you did not have to like his music, but everybody loved his "personality". Tens of thousands of people where saying adieu to their youth.