The lyricist, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro helped Johnny move from the status of a yéyé singer to that of a singer with lyrics. Labro tells us about the one we sometimes called “the beast”: “he had to work, it was a need, a reason for being”.
Journalist, writer, director, but also renowned lyricist, Philippe Labro has written no less than 27 songs for Johnny Hallyday. At the origin of their friendship, a common love for American culture.
In 1970, returning from San Francisco where he was strongly influenced by the “Peace and Love” wave, Philippe Labro wrote on the plane “Jesus Christ is a hippie”. Eddy Vartan signs the music and Johnny sings it. A bit provocative, the text (“he must smoke marijane with a blue gaze that hovers” or even “he likes topless girls”) arouses strong reactions within the Church of France to the point that Mgr Lustiger , Archbishop of Paris, later said to the person concerned: “was it really necessary? »
2023-12-18 07:09:05
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