Asculta azi Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (live, Olimpia, 2000)

Jean-Philippe Smet, known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, (born 15 June 1943, Cité Malesherbes, Paris, France) is a French singer and actor.

An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by some to have been the French Elvis Presley.
He was married for 15 years to popular Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan and the two were considered a "golden couple" for 20 years. Hallyday has completed 100 tours, had 18 platinum albums, and has sold more than 110 million records.

He announced his retirement from performing on 3 December 2007, saying that he would retire in 2009, after a farewell tour. 
However, Hallyday announced in March 2012 that he would perform in Los Angeles on 24 April, in Quebec City on 10 July and in New York City on 7 October.

Hallyday's father, Léon Smet (1908–1989), was Belgian, his mother Huguette Clerc (1920–2007) was French. Hallyday took his stage name from his aunt Desta's husband and dance partner Lee Hallyday, a pseudonym for Lee Ketcham, an expatriate Oklahoman, performer and MC at the Cafe de Paris when Johnny began his singing career. Johnny was raised by Desta and Lee from a very young age, with Lee being his first manager.

Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock revolution, Hallyday became famous in the 1960s for singing rock and roll in French. His debut single, "Laisse les filles" was released on the Vogue label in March 1960.[6] His first album, Hello Johnny, was released in 1960.[7] In 1961 his cover of "Let's Twist Again" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[8] It topped almost every European chart, although the track did not appear in the UK Singles Chart.[9] He appeared on the American The Ed Sullivan Show with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. He also staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of the late Bruno Coquatrix. For their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Évreux on 13 October 1966. Black and white footage, also from October 1966, exists of Hallyday partying with Hendrix, his manager Chas Chandler and others.

At the end of the 1960s, Hallyday made a string of albums with Mick Jones and Tommy Brown as musical directors, and Big Jim Sullivan, Bobby Graham and Jimmy Page as session musicians. These are Jeune Homme, Rivière... Ouvre ton Lit (aka Je suis né dans la rue) and Vie. On Je suis né dans la rue, Hallyday also hired both Peter Frampton and the Small Faces. Amongst their contributions are the songs "Amen (Bang Bang)", "Reclamation (News Report)" and "Regarde Pour Moi (What You Will)" which are variations of Small Faces and Humble Pie – which was Frampton's band – tracks and they can be heard playing on the album. Often forgotten is Hallyday's non-LP single and EP track "Que Je T'aime" from the same sessions.[10] By 1969 alone, his sales of records exceeded twelve million.

One of Hallyday's later concerts, 100% Johnny: Live à La Tour Eiffel in 2000, attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5 million television viewers (the show was broadcast live on French TV).[11] In December 2005, Hallyday had his third number-one single in France, "Mon Plus Beau Noël" (after "Tous ensemble" and "Marie"), dedicated to his adopted daughter Jade. Shortly before announcing his retirement from touring, he released a blues-flavored album, Le Cœur d'un homme, on 12 November 2007. The album hit #1 in both France and French-speaking Belgium. In addition to the lead single "Always", Le Cœur d'un homme features "T'aimer si mal", a duet with bluesman Taj Mahal and "I Am the Blues", an English-language song written for Hallyday by U2 frontman Bono. His next album, Ça ne finira jamais, released in 2008, another #1 on the French album chart, and its lead single, "Ça n'finira jamais", also reached #1.

In 2008 he recorded a series of acoustic songs with French musician Drexl Jonez. Hallyday's most recent album, also a #1 hit in France, is Tour 66: Stade de France 2009, a live set recorded at Stade de France during his farewell tour with appearances by Drexl Jonez on the guitar.

Hallyday remains largely unknown outside of France and Quebec, thus earning the nickname "the biggest rock star you've never heard of" in English-speaking countries.

He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1997.

The lyrics:

Non! Rien de rien ...

Non ! Je ne regrette rien

Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait

Ni le mal tout ca m'est bien egal !

Non ! Rien de rien ...

Non ! Je ne regrette rien...

C'est paye, balaye, oublie

Je me fous du passe!

Avec mes souvenirs

J'ai allume le feu

Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs

Je n'ai plus besoin d'eux !

Balayes les amours

Et tous leurs tremolos

Balayes pour toujours

Je repars a zero ...

Non ! Rien de rien ...

Non ! Je ne regrette nen ...

Ni le bien, qu'on m'a fait

Ni le mal, tout ca m'est bien egal !

Non ! Rien de rien ...

Non ! Je ne regrette rien ...

Car ma vie, car mes joies

Aujourd'hui, ca commence avec vous !