A few days ago, he announced the release of his single “Requiem for a fool”, cover of one of the most iconic songs of his dad, Johnny, which he includes with a tour across France, Switzerland and Belgium, starting in November 2024. David Hallyday has more than one ace in his sleeve. And since good news never comes alone: he will release, at the age of 57, his autobiography entitled
“Best Album”November 23, 2023.
That “didn’t hurt him that much“
In this work, which those who are passionate about his family will not fail to treat themselves to, David Hallyday reveals a secret that he never confessed to his parents, Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan. To know “that the fact that his mother divorced his father“, in 1980 after fifteen years of union, “didn’t hurt him that much“.
This November 19, 2023, in an interview given to Eric Naulleau in the columns of JDD, to promote his book, David Hallyday even says more about this period of his life, when he was 14 years old. He who admits to having had “a protected childhood because his mother wanted him to grow up sheltered from the madness of this period” remember “fans always present in their lives”.
His dad had his “excess”, he said, “linked to the world of rock”. And David recognizes that when he was little, “in the 60s and 70s, it was rare to see a father pushing a pram. The father figure was different from today“.
“lacks” and one “feeling of insecurity”
Not really raised like Jade and Joy, his little sisters, were by a more present Johnny, David Hallyday also admits: “I explain the shortcomings that this situation has caused in me. This feeling of insecurity that I had to overcome to continue creating.” From 1980, it was in the United States that the young man went to live with his mother, who remarried Tony Scotti, who embodied for him the father figure he missed so much…
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