Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday's posthumous album hits No 1
Huge CD and vinyl sales propel Mon Pays C’est L’Amour to top of French charts
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
26, Oct, 2018 @2:54 PM

Johnny Hallyday's children seek to freeze estate in row over will
Late French rocker divides his family by leaving fortune to widow and disinheriting children
Kim Willsher in Paris
15, Mar, 2018 @7:23 PM

Johnny Hallyday remembered by Carla Bruni
The singer and former model recalls the French rock star, a complex figure who started young, lived to perform and was loved by an entire nation
17, Dec, 2017 @8:00 AM

A million take to Paris streets for Johnny Hallyday's funeral
French president makes emotional address calling for ‘people’s tribute’, as singer’s body is driven through capital on final journey
Kim Willsher
09, Dec, 2017 @3:38 PM

Johnny Hallyday to get spectacular 'people's tribute' send-off in Paris
Thousands of fans are expected to line Champs Elysées to witness cortege accompanied by sound of rocker’s hits
Kim Willsher
07, Dec, 2017 @4:52 PM

Johnny Hallyday, the 'French Elvis', dies at 74
Singer, who sold more than 110m albums and was revered across generations in France, had lung cancer
Angelique Chrisafis and Kim Willsher in Paris
06, Dec, 2017 @5:51 PM

If Johnny Hallyday was France’s Elvis, who is their version of Kanye West?
The beloved rock star, who died this week, was often compared to Presley in the UK. So, which other Francophone artists have English-speaking equivalents?
Jeremy Allen
06, Dec, 2017 @4:25 PM

Johnny Hallyday: France’s 'rockeur national' – obituary
One of rock’n’roll’s great showmen whose immense popularity in France never waned
Jon Henley
06, Dec, 2017 @1:58 PM

The tragedy of Johnny Hallyday? He should have sung Piaf, not Presley
The French rocker was a symbol of cultural resistance – and a hell of a singer, says John Lichfield, a journalist based in France since 1997
John Lichfield
06, Dec, 2017 @1:12 PM

Vice-chancellors' pay and Hallyday tributes: your best comments on the Guardian today
We’re highlighting topics that have provoked interesting conversation on site today, including personal debt figures and the death of Johnny Hallyday
Guardian readers
06, Dec, 2017 @12:20 PM

French rock star Johnny Hallyday being treated for cancer
Veteran singer denounces ‘alarmist’ reports in some media and says while cancerous cells have been discovered, ‘I am doing well and am in good fitness’
Kevin Rawlinson
08, Mar, 2017 @11:37 PM

Follow the swallows: Roger Deakin's days hitchhiking to the sun
The esteemed writer was addicted to heading south for the summer. In an unpublished essay, he describes the joys of thumbing lifts on France’s Route Nationale Vingt
Roger Deakin
29, May, 2015 @2:08 PM
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