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| A fan takes a picture of the altar during a tribute to Johnny Hallyday, December 9 in Paris. Photo: AFP / VNA / CVN |
Inside the church, more than a thousand people were gathered to attend a Mass in tribute to the singer, and hundreds of fans who could not enter the building, the number of places being limited, were massed around the famous Parisian monument.
"Let despair be for us a source of hope", at the beginning of the ceremony, Father Bruno Horaist, the priest of the Madeleine, who is leading a mass in memory of the singer on the 9th of each month, echoing the popular tribute that had been given on December 9, 2017 to the star who died four days earlier.
The galley, where Johnny's famous chorus "Stay at night" (signed Aznavour) echoed during communion, was broadcast live on KTO Catholic and YouTube.
Several fans interviewed by AFP expressed their great emotion before the mass. "We are moved, it's like family, it was someone we loved"said Maria, 65, a white rose in hand, accompanied by Michel, 55, for whom this ceremony was an opportunity to make up for his absence a year ago. "I absolutely wanted to come to his funeral and I could not come"he explains.
"This is a very important day for us, besides we are many and it means a lot: we are here to collect for our idol, we have not forgotten and we will never forget"Serge, 59, who made the trip from Toulouse, told AFP.
He too had not been able to come to the tribute organized a year ago, which had gathered in Paris hundreds of thousands of people. After a motorcade of 700 bikers to accompany the coffin of the singer on the Champs-Elysées, a funeral mass was held at the Madeleine, in the presence of the family of the singer, his musicians and many personalities.
Christine, 73, who came from Val-de-Marne with her friends Claudette and Marie-Anna, struggled to contain her tears. "It's my youth, when he was on TV, my father changed channels …", she recalls. Fan of Johnny since always, she had attended many of his concerts, including the Eiffel Tower and the arena of Nîmes.
In an interview with the Journal du dimanche December 9, the boss of Warner France, the record company of Johnny Hallyday since 2006, recalls how his fans counted for the rockstar: "For him the most important, it was the public, he could spend hours on the internet to know what his fans thought", stresses Thierry Chassagne.
Fans who, since October, rushed to the posthumous album of Johnny Hallyday, still at the top of the charts and whose sales are now "more than 1.2 million, 97% of which are physical albums", says Mr. Chassagne. According to him, "Johnny's tarnished image has been talked about a lot because of heritage issues, and this fantastic public endorsement proves the opposite."
AFP / VNA / CVN
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