The time for revelations has come. Thursday November 23, 2023, Best Album
, the autobiography of David Hallyday published by Éditions du Cherche midi, will finally see the light of day. Thanks to this work, the son of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan will have the opportunity to introduce himself because, until then, he had “the impression that we didn’t know him”. “I wanted to tell the story of how I grew up with parents like mine, in a family like mine. How I was given this gift for music and how this art saved me several times,” he confided this Friday, November 17 in the columns of Figaro.
In full promotion of this new project, the 57-year-old artist gave an interview to our colleagues. During this interview, Laura Smet’s half-brother returned to the pages of her book. “What an anomaly, what aberration, what madness to see the death of one’s father become a spectacle between two commercial breaks. Nothing, not even the tribute they claim to relay, manages to hide the obscenity of the process”, he writes. A well-felt attack on his mother-in-law, Laeticia. Indeed, David Hallyday thinks that this intimate moment was stolen from him.
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“I put myself at his service”
Exit this sad confidence, David Hallyday also returned to his relationship with the Taulier. “There was no competition with my father. Because one of the things that linked us was music and he was not a composer, unlike me who was a producer then a composer before becoming a interpreter”, he indicated. “We proved it. I put myself at his service. And I wrote him an album (Sang pour sang) which was the best-selling of his career. It was an opportunity for him and for me. The relationship Between us wasn’t always easy, but she was honest. My father always loved me. I always felt my father’s love. Sometimes he lost his way, showed weaknesses. But he always loved his children, all his children.” Shocking declarations.
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