New posthumous album by Johnny Hallyday, released Friday. Inside, no new titles but a reorchestration of twelve of his tubes in symphonic version, by the London Symphony Orchestra. His voice comes from some of his live or unused recording sessions. This new album, called "Johnny", was designed by Yvan Cassar, the former artistic director of the rocker, at the request of Universal.
"The orchestra, for Johnny Hallyday, it's the movie music"
He says: "The orchestra, for Johnny Hallyday, is the film music, it's the westerns, it's Ennio Morricone, but it's also the big American blockbusters, the science fiction movies." For this new album, Yvan Cassar assures Europe 1: "We really went into something very very very powerful!"
"Johnny Hallyday is rock'n'roll, when an orchestra knows how to make the power and fury of a rock band, I think he liked," concludes Johnny's former artistic director.