Date 06/12/2017 - News People
PARIS (Reuters) - Johnny Hallyday, whose death at 74 was announced by his wife and the French president on Wednesday, was a rock and roll giant in his native France and survived drug use, family strife and near-death episodes to strut the stage for more than fifty years. Hallyday, with his cowboy swagger and gravelly voice, was a ?French Elvis? for hundreds of millions of followers, mostly if not all in his native country, where he sold more records than any other singer. He had been fighting lung cancer, and also preparing yet another album recording and stage tour.
