RTL was listening to it this morning, and Jacques Legros has just announced it in the 1 p.m. news: original music by Johnny Hallyday has been found in the archives of Universal. Recorded in the 70s, “The Specialist”, which was to be attributed to the film, will finally be released in 2022.
Four years ago, France said goodbye to Johnny Hallyday. Or rather his goodbyes. Because yes, since the disappearance of the Taulier, this one remains still and always alive through the music. After a song dating from 1968, La Nuit avec Moi, then a more recent one, from 2014, Deux kinds d’hommes, revealed to the general public after his death, it is a third creation that is resurfacing today.
A disturbing find
It is the Universal house that unveils this new title, created for the needs of the film The Specialist at the time: “It’s a surprise and a very good surprise” explained Xavier Perrot, artistic director of Johnny Hallyday’s catalog. And if RTL unveiled the title on January 26 in the morning, it was Jacques Legros, live on the 1 p.m. newscast on TF1 that same day, who confirmed the new camera face. An announcement through an exclusive report, retracing the research: “It’s always great to find an archive that has been sleeping for so long in a bunker with a whole humidity and heat control system… The tapes are kept in good conditions. It’s a mixed tape in which there were two versions of the song: a first with a rock formation and another more acoustic. There are only two takes of this song.”
A song recorded in the summer of 1969, set to a melody by film composer Angelo Francesco Lavagnino. If the reason why it was not finally exploited is still very vague, Xavier Perrot confirms it, “This song raises a lot of questions but it remains a document, a real nugget and I hope there will be more. We’re ending 1970 and we’re going to start 1970 and we’re going to start 1971…“as he confides on RTL this January 26.
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