{"id":8837,"date":"2017-12-06T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2017-12-10T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T21:41:14","slug":"johnny-hallyday-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/06\/johnny-hallyday-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Hallyday Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-42247551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from BBC News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Johnny Hallyday: France&#8217;s &#8216;Elvis Presley&#8217; dies at 74<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MbY_VbdN0nM\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">France&#8217;s biggest rock star Johnny Hallyday has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p>The singer sold about 100 million records and starred in a number of films in a career that began in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>He was made a Chevalier of the Legion D&#8217;Honneur by President Jacques Chirac in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The French simply called him &#8220;Our Johnny&#8221;. However, outside the Francophone zone, Hallyday was virtually unknown.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, his wife Laeticia said: &#8220;Johnny Hallyday has left us. I write these words without believing them. But yet, it&#8217;s true. My man is no longer with us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He left us tonight as he lived his whole life, with courage and dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-42254252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How France saw itself in Johnny Hallyday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hallyday, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Smet, decided he wanted to be a singer after seeing Elvis Presley on screen in 1957. Hallyday was nicknamed the &#8220;French Presley&#8221; by his numerous fans.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-42247551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at BBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BBC News Johnny Hallyday: France&#8217;s &#8216;Elvis Presley&#8217; dies at 74 France&#8217;s biggest rock star Johnny Hallyday has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 74. The singer sold about 100 million records and starred in a number of films in a career that began in 1960. He was made a Chevalier of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}