"This way we were able to reconnect" : David Hallyday explains the behind the scenes of the album "blood for blood" composed for his father Johnny

With over 2 million copies sold, it is the biggest success in Johnny Hallyday’s career. In 1999, the singer was released blood for blood, an album entirely composed by his son David. As the 46-year-old artist describes, it is a project that has almost never seen the light of day. as a party this Monday, April 3rd channel+ : “I hesitated because this is not an easy task. I didn’t want to say yes without thinking, without being sure that I could already do it myself, that I could do a good job. At first I said to him, “Listen, let me think”. Not that I said no, I needed to digest all this a little bit.“

Finally, David Hallyday, who wrote the titles of the album for his father in 1989. Cadillac, Watchtower And possible by motorcycleaccepts his father’s offer:At the same time, I thought maybe it was a great way to reconnect with each other because we lived far away from each other. We didn’t talk much, we talked on the phone, but it’s not the same thing. Then I told myself that I would start because I am someone who loves challenges, knows difficult things, and loves them. It was one of the best human decisions of my life. It was a great moment for both of them.“

Thanks to this collaboration on this album, the two men discover themselves in the studio in a different light:It’s hard to tell everything. At first we talk a lot about music, in the end we rarely talk because we talk about life, stuff like that, but in the end it was pretty rare to talk about music. It was an event there that forced us to talk about it, to discuss the themes I wanted it to reveal. We spent 6 months together and it was great, really great.“In this way, David Hallyday further strengthened the bond that bound him to his father:”Thanks to this album, we were able to reconnect with each other and then become more close. This album has contributed a lot to us, not to the public, but to him and me.“

David Hallyday returns to the stores on March 24 with his album happiest of menThe singer revealed that the name of her album actually came from another joint project with her father: “It’s a pretty special name, as I rediscovered it inside a box. It disappeared along with four other titles on a hard drive. Sang pour is an unused song that was made to be included in a new album that my father asked me to do after singing it in 2001 or 2002. I started working at his request and had done five titles for him.“As a result, David Hallyday decides to end this new collaboration:”I told myself that I didn’t want to bring the huge success of Blood for Blood to the game and that I would rather stay with Blood for Blood for the visuals. I just wanted an album between us. I wanted to leave it there. I called him to say I wanted to stop there, a little disappointed but that’s how it was. I don’t regret this decision at all. I had forgotten these names there and when I listened to them again, I wished they could be these names and I took this one and put it on the album.“

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