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Requiem pour un fou

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"Requiem pour un fou"
Single by Johnny Hallyday
from the album Derrière l'amour
LanguageFrench
English titleRequiem for a fool
B-side"Les Chiens de paille"
Released10 February 1976 (1976-02-10)[1]
RecordedLate 1975–Early 1976
StudioStudio 92, Boulogne-Billancourt
GenreChanson, French rock, requiem, blues rock
Length4:47
LabelPhilips
Composer(s)Gérard Layani
Lyricist(s)Gilles Thibaut
Producer(s)Jacques Revaux
Johnny Hallyday singles chronology
"La Terre promise"
(1975)
"Requiem pour un fou"
(1976)
"Derrière l'amour"
(1976)
Music video
"Requiem pour un fou" (Live, c. 1993) on YouTube
"Fool For Love (Requiem pour un fou)"
Single by Michael Bolton and Johnny Hallyday
Language
  • French
  • English
B-side"Fool For Love (English)"
ReleasedAugust 1996 (1996-08)
GenreRock
Length4:47
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Gérard Layani, Gilles Thibaut, Don Black
Producer(s)Chris Kimsey
Michael Bolton singles chronology
"Love Is the Power"
(1996)
"Fool For Love (Requiem pour un fou)"
(1996)
"Go the Distance"
(1997)
Johnny Hallyday singles chronology
"Hymne à l'amour (Live)"
(1996)
"Fool For Love (Requiem pour un fou)"
(1996)
"Tes tendres années (Live)"
(1996)
"Requiem pour un fou"
Single by Johnny Hallyday and Lara Fabian
from the album Stade de France 98 Johnny allume le feu
B-side"Je veux te graver dans ma vie"
ReleasedFebruary 1999 (1999-02)
Recorded11 September 1998
VenueStade de France
GenreBlues rock, orchestral
Length4:01
LabelMercury France
Songwriter(s)Gérard Layani, Gilles Thibaut
Producer(s)Jacques Revaux
Johnny Hallyday singles chronology
"Seul"
(1998)
"Requiem pour un fou"
(1999)
"Vivre pour le meilleur"
(1999)
Lara Fabian singles chronology
"La Différence"
(1999)
"Requiem pour un fou"
(1999)
"Adagio"
(1999)

"Requiem pour un fou" (French pronunciation: [ʁekɥijɛm puʁ ɛ̃ fu]) is a song by French singer Johnny Hallyday. It was released in February 1976 as the lead single off of his twenty-first studio album, "Derrière l'amour", released later that year in June. Hallyday has also re-recorded the song in Italian, Spanish, and English (with American singer Michael Bolton, English and Bilingual) and has also released duet versions with Bolton and Belgian-Italian singer Lara Fabian in 1996 and 1999 respectively, the ladder duet being a live performance at the Stade de France in September 1998.

History

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Gilles Thibaut wrote the lyrics for this blues rock requiem on the theme of the love story, romantic drama and extreme tragedy of a “fanatic suicidal madman of love” who is abandoned by the woman he loves and, crazy for love and pain, kills her so as not to lose her; condemned to death for this feminicide, he in turn lets himself die out of love for her, “for a great love to always live it must die of love.[2] About this socially very provocative and controversial title, which embodies the rocker soul of Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Brieu considers that through its theme it is an “anti-Hallyday song par excellence” which had everything going for it. confuse the singer's audience, but who, through the grandiloquence of his interpretation, overcomes any reluctance and ultimately ignites the audience.[3] This title is a variation of the song "Requiem pour un con" by Serge Gainsbourg, theme music for the film Le Pacha (1968) by Georges Lautner, with Jean Gabin.

Commercial performance

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The song spent four consecutive weeks at no. 1 on the singles sales chart in France (from 4 to 31 March 1976).[4]

Charts

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Original

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Chart (1976) Peak
position
France (singles sales)[4] 1
Chart (2009) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop Back Catalogue Singles)[5] 16

Lara Fabian duet version

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Chart (1999) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[6] 11
France (SNEP)[7] 8
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 5

References

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  1. ^ "Discographie 1976". hallyday.com.
  2. ^ Thoury, Jean-William (2002). Johnny en chanson - Dictionnaire des chansons de Johnny Hallyday [Johnny in song - Dictionary of Johnny Hallyday songs] (in French). France: Editions La Mascara. p. 277.
  3. ^ Brieu, Jean-François (2000). booklet of the CD Derrière l'amour, 2000 edition (in French). pp. 549984–2, p. 4, "Requiem pour un fou anti-Hallyday song par excellence, vocal song, anti–rock, anti–America, anti-Johnny fan. And yet, [...], there was, there has always been an audience for this theme which roars, which bubbles, which is carried towards the heights of the hit parade by its very excesses, by its grandiloquence which ends up sweeping away reluctance, like a cyclone." (translated).
  4. ^ a b "Requiem pour un fou - Johnny Hallyday - Hit-Parade.net". Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  5. ^ "ultratop.be - Johnny Hallyday - Requiem pour un fou". Ultratop. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  6. ^ "Lara Fabian & Johnny Hallyday - Requiem pour un fou - ultratop.be". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
  7. ^ "Lara Fabian & Johnny Hallyday - Requiem pour un fou (Chanson)". lescharts.com.
  8. ^ Lara Fabian & Johnny Hallyday - Requiem pour un fou, retrieved 2024-05-30