Paris (AFP)
"La nuit avec moi": this is an unreleased track by Johnny Hallyday who was sleeping on tapes and who was exhumed on the occasion of the release of a box celebrating the 1969 year of the rocker, released on Friday.
This song is part of the recording sessions of "Rivière ... Ouvert ton lit" published that year, but was left out at the time. "I have no explanation, musically, it is in the same vein as the rest of the album, with guitar-bass-drums, it's pretty rock", indicates to AFP Xavier Perrot, responsible artistic from the Hallyday catalog at Universal, which is one of the discoverers of this nugget.
"We tried to restore it with the intention of the time, that is to say that Johnny had gone to look for London - it is the French interpreter who recorded the most in England or in the United States - a its particular, with the instruments in front, "he continues.
"I want someone to share my joy / Head in the smoke for the night with me," we hear Johnny sing, who was already 10 years old at the time.
The tapes of Johnny's recording sessions - "it's our treasure, it looks like coils of a little less than 30 cm in diameter" - rest, "at constant humidity and temperature in a warehouse near Paris ", continues Xavier Perrot.
Will we find other new ones in the future? "It is not impossible that we find others but I cannot guarantee it, there are no rules. In my opinion, if we find some, it will be counted on the fingers of a With digital, we can keep everything from a recording session. But with tapes, when we had to make room, some choices were radical and things deleted, "explains the manager.
The Johnny 69 box, in addition to this unique, presents many rarities, in the studio or concerts.
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