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Longtime friends, Johnny Hallyday and Jean-Paul Belmondo experienced some moments of disenchantment. Jean-Jacques Debout tells many anecdotes about his singer friend, in his autobiography published on October 26th.
Jean-Jacques Debout published his autobiography “The color of ghosts” on Wednesday 26 October. In his book he tells many anecdotes about his friend Johnny Hallyday, in particular a fight between the singer and Jean-Paul Belmondo, in the 60s.
During a Parisian evening, the two icons were at New Jimmy’s, a yé-yé and twist-oriented nightclub, opened by singer Régine. As Jean-Jacques Debout recounts, Johnny Hallyday and Jean-Paul Belmondo “fought and went straight to the street to fight”.
“Was it for a girl story?”
As for the reason for this exchange of “punches” that “will last a good quarter of an hour”, he will know nothing about it: “Was it for a girl story? I never understood the reason for this anger. Neither of them gave it to me. They were having a drink and suddenly they had a fight. With music, I didn’t hear anything they blamed each other for. I followed them out.
“Sacha Distel was also there and I spared him the beating of his life:” I’m going to separate them, he told me. – You’re not crazy! What do you take! I’m going to get a praline. in the mouth ”, he wrote him.
Jean-Jacques Debout recounts the end of the quarrel: “Belmondo had scratched Johnny, whose cheeks were bleeding, with one eye that was half black. Johnny had still hit well because Jean-Paul had torn his shirt.
At the end of this altercation, Johnny Hallyday will slip away from Chantal Goya’s husband: “You realize that I am being beaten by Belmondo while I admire him. I run to the cinema for every movie of him! He hurts her … “
Finally, the story ends with a reconciliation, writes Jean-Jacques Debout: “Eight days later, they met again at New Jimmy’s and reconciled. “Let’s make peace, we’ll celebrate!” they shouted in chorus. Their story started off badly but they became friends for life.
