You obviously recognize this song: it’s Requiem for a fool by Johnny Hallyday. Big success when it was released in 45 rpm, in February 1976 – the first place in the charts more than 500,000 copies sold, and a return in the sales rankings in December 2017, at the death of Johnny – because the polls, at the era, reveal that it is Johnny’s 9th favorite song by the French. So you know her, but you may not know why this man is locked up, obviously armed, and threatening to shoot anything that moves…
In the second episode of These songs that make the news airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Johnny Hallyday, Requiem for a fool1976
Claude FrancoisAs per usual1967
Johnny Hallyday, That I love you1969
Michel Sardo, I will love you1976
Johnny Hallyday, Requiem for a fool1976
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