Johnny Hallyday, the French rock star who came to fame in the early 1960s with cover versions of American rock ’n’ roll hits and continued to sell out concerts in France for decades, has died at his ...

Reporting from PARIS — The name Johnny Hallyday will mean little if anything to most Americans. But on Saturday, a million French people turned out on a bitterly cold December morning to bid adieu to ...

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PARIS — France bid farewell to its biggest rock star Saturday, honoring Johnny Hallyday with an extravagant funeral procession down Paris' Champs-Elysees Avenue, a presidential speech and a televised ...

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French superstar Johnny Hallyday is not a name everyone will know, but he has the numbers to pre-approve his place in the pantheon of entertainment. Hallyday has recorded more than 1,000 songs, ...

Johnny Hallyday, France’s rock ‘n’ roll icon has died, the French president’s office said in a statement on Wednesday. He was 74 years old. Hallyday had announced that he was being treated for cancer ...

The French rock star, who died at 74 of lung cancer at his home outside Paris Wednesday, had a career spanning 57 years. He sold more than 100 million albums, but was little known outside his own ...

PARIS -- Johnny Hallyday, France's biggest rock star for more than half a century and an icon who packed sports stadiums and all but lit up the Eiffel Tower with his high-energy concerts at the foot ...