Paris (AFP)

Symphonic album, projections to the Olympia, tour of a vocal double ... almost two years after his death, Johnny Hallyday is everywhere, with validated projects, or not, by his widow Laeticia.

"This is a heavenly manna for producers / publishers, but there is a strong demand: it means that no one has replaced," analyzes for AFP the journalist Christian Eudeline, which publishes November 7 "L 'Johnny encyclopedia' with more than 2,600 occurrences.

"Since it's written" by Jean-Baptiste Guégan, Johnny's vocal double, has been certified platinum album - 100,000 sales equivalents - "while rowing for 10 years", and "there are still masses for Johnny at the Madeleine, "he adds.

To fill this gap, the event "Johnny Hallyday, one evening at the Olympia" was scheduled on December 1, just before the second anniversary of his death on December 5, 2017. Either three concerts / testimonies projections - 12:00, 16:00, 8:00 pm, about one and a half hours each time - to tell the story of Johnny and the famous red-lettered hall.

We will see in particular the rocker express himself "in interviews that I had made with him and that we had not used", explains to AFP Michel Jankielewicz, the new adviser of Laeticia. There will also be images of concerts from all periods, including duets at the Olympia, in 2000, "never broadcast" continues this close to the artist. On the trailer, we see France Gall and Patrick Bruel.

The sound of the concerts will be "mixed live by a + +, +, depending on the reactions of the public: he can assemble the voice or a guitar". "The Olympia will be + decorated Johnny +, still promises the right arm of the widow of the rocker.The billiard room will be open and there will be Johnny objects like stage costumes for the Olympia, guitars".

- "We do not replace Johnny" -

VIP ticket holders will be able to "go to the lodges or the small Marylin bar". "There should be motorcycles, it's going to make some noise on the boulevard," says Jankielewicz.

The latter also mentions the release this Friday of a best-of symphonic version, called soberly "Johnny" - "he wanted to play with such an orchestra" - and November 8 CD / DVD of the concert of "Old Scoundrels" with Jacques Dutronc and Eddy Mitchell, filmed at Bercy in 2014.

Until then, Sylvie Vartan re-enacts, a year later, "Avec toi", a show celebrating her life together with Johnny, Wednesday and Thursday at the Grand Rex. "I was not invited," says Jankielewicz.

It is more noisy for the show of Jean-Baptiste Guégan "sold as a tribute show, it is not very healthy". "Guégan has talent, but we do not listen to Johnny's voice at his show, he must stay in his place, we do not replace Johnny, as we do not replace Aznavour, Bécaud or Nougaro".

"His voice is very close to that of Johnny, but it is not Johnny" comments for AFP Sylvie Vartan.

Mr. Jankielewicz then contradicts Michel Mallory, former lyricist of the "taulier", author for Guégan: "I do not think that it is about songs that Johnny would have recorded.When Johnny was going out an album, all Paris wrote for him" .

- "Aspartame for sugar" -

He warns that "for Guégan, it will be very difficult to get out of there, apart from doing a duet with Sylvie Vartan at the Grand Rex, but everything is possible in the showbiz".

Mr. Jankielewicz also charges "substitute, as aspartame for sugar" - the show "The idol of young people", presented by its designers as "a celebration of the career" of Johnny, at the Casino de Paris from December 18 before turning. "If it's not false or defamatory, why not," says Sylvie Vartan, not "contacted".

"Everyone comes to testify, assuring that he was Johnny's best friend ... I'm suspicious," his ex-wife still analyzes.

Mr. Jankielewicz is also preparing a "musical comedy, which does not tell the story of Johnny's life, but uses his songs as in Mamma Mia", planned "rather around 2022".

"Johnny has occupied the field for 50-60 years, it's generational, in my opinion it can last another five or ten years," concludes Mr. Eudeline.

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