On December 5, it will be five years since Johnny Hallyday is dead consequences of lung cancer at the age of 74. A date whose great friendEddy Mitchell will remember forever.
The 80-year-old singer was this Saturday, November 5, the guest of the show We redo the TV presented by Jade and Éric Dussart on RTL for the promotion of his new book Lilacs in Belleville (Dargaud editions). He did not hide his tenderness for the interpreter ofLight the fire : “I always think of him and I get along very well with him.said the godfather of Laura Smet. He’s still there and I know he’s pissing everyone up there!”
He’s gonna fuck up heaven
On December 9, 2017, Eddy Mitchell was obviously present at Johnny Hallyday’s funeral, which was held at the Madeleine church in Paris. If this event remains a traumatic memory for many French people, Eddy Mitchell remembers on the other hand a hilarious memory during this funeral : “At his funeral, the priest was finishing mass. People were coming out and the priest had forgotten that his microphone had remained connected. He said: ‘Now, he’s going to fuck up heaven‘said the singer. We all turned around collapsed laughing!” Eddy Mitchell also remembers that his friend Johnny “was there to annoy the world”.
Johnny Hallyday, a “half-brother” for Eddy Mitchell
Very close to Johnny Hallyday whom he considers his “half brother”Eddy Mitchell devoted a title to him A little bit of love in his last album Country Rock released in November 2021. “For me you were more than a friend/a half-brother, almost a double“, he says in this song. The day before the deceased’s birthday, June 14, Muriel Bailleul’s companion was the guest of Daily on TMC. He confided in this title as a tribute: “It’s his story a little. Not just a little, it’s his story. It’s also the relationship we had together”, he expressed. Far from the eyes but close to the heart.