NIGHT JOHNNY OR MY COUNTRY IS LOVE

Marketing operation tailored to the: the launch of the CD will coincide, Friday, October 19, the passage of Laeticia Hallyday to the TF1 news. She will promote the posthumous album of Johnny Hallyday on TF1, then RTL and Paris Match.

If the first title of the album will benefit from a clip, there will be no release except single, said Sebastien Farran. Neither concert-tribute. The cinemas of the CGR group and the radio station RTL will organize listening in 20 cities for 51 fans, in reference to the number of albums of the singer.

Ten titles and not one more: Made in Rock'n'roll, Forgive Me, Interlude, 4m2, Back in The, William's America, A child of the century, Falling down again, I'm just a man and I will talk to the devil, who will be on the air Friday night.

" It was complicated to finish this record, he was not there. It was difficult to hear his voice, his lyrics taking a different meaning. We cried a lot. I never thought I could do anything that hard by making music, "said Maxim Nucci, known on stage as Yodelice.

The specialized journalists had the chance to discover the record this Monday afternoon in the premises of Warner. Then: press conference, in the presence of Thierry Chassagne, Maxim Nucci, composer and director of the album, but also Bertrand Lamblot, artistic director of the album, as well as Sébastien Farran, the former manager of Johnny.

And what was the role of Laeticia Hallyday, always very invested in the career of her husband, in the development of this last work?

"Like any man in a family, when (Johnny Hallyday) comes home at night, he listens (his music) with his wife and they discuss it together. I think she has been there constantly since the beginning of the albums I'm working on, in a process of comforting Johnny. " Says Sebastien Farran.

Because the singer "had many doubts," he continued. "He was constantly asking himself questions about the artistic reality of what he was doing, and she was always there to comfort him, to motivate him, to give him back. "

And it is especially on the image of the singer that his widow always invested herself: "She is artistic director (sic) of the image (...) She gives the options of styling, she gives the options of directors video, it gives photographers options (...) »

A Laeticia Halliday also ensure the promotion of the album and return to the conditions of its recording, made in the last weeks of the life of the singer.

A balancing act for Laeticia Hallyday who will also have to improve her personal image.