Sorry in advance for my somewhat lengthy preamble, but I was keen to pay tribute to Johnny Halliday, this oak that had to bend the spine, such as the reed to withstand modes, and their whims to keep that it has always been: a great man, gifted, "the trunk" filled with sincere love, the will sometimes raw, powerful, always radiant, I wanted to raise his prodigious career. He was discovered in the 60s, for the young, carefree who loved without shackles our national rocker, often to excess, that's why he was baptized by those appointed "yéyés" of the time ", the Youth dole " Over the next two decades, its reputation, although took a dramatic turn almost plebeian popular, the intellectuals of the time swore by Ferré, Barbara, Brel ... (I love), but most thought Johnny like a rock singer certainly easy but a bit vulgar and insulting Oh, he did not compose! Difficult in a Paris evening to say that we loved Jojo, a sudden silence fell upon the assembly, the bifurcated conversations short, it was "spot". Against all odds, the singer has never won, and a love story, very strong with his fans, has merely consolidate its fame. All interviews in the media were ridiculed, caricatured to death with that ... etc A Difficult to exist for this to be propelled by the light spots at 15, and so, of course self-educated, shy, tracker, and for which the verb was not the strong point! It was easy to gloat. People often need to put you in boxes. For me what makes or breaks a person, is the diversity of his tastes, his sense of wonder, curiosity, his eclecticism, not its arbitrary judgments and satisfied It took an article in "The World" there fifteen years, who recognized the man and his talent for sores, intellectual and bourgeois stuck, and other "conventional anti-convention" (I do not mean everyone) interested in the phenomenon Halliday, and they debate it in chosen words, and even with enthusiasm, Yes it was recognized the "divine child" by his former peers derogatory Today any confused circles, one likes or does not like Jojo, but we talk about it, and it is the largest stadium in France or the very intimate "cicada" you can meet people from all backgrounds, of all ages, who admire the strength of this "beast" stainless "that mesmerizes crowds, singing, lives on a stage that invests thousand percent and still endorsed ...