This thread has turned into a feast for Francophiles. Thanks to Monique and others for alerting me to a lot of links I probably wouldn't otherwise have sought out.

Johnny Hallyday may not have a huge following outside the French speaking world, but one of his biggest fans - despite his animated support for Sarko - is the decidedly Left-wing singer/songwriter Robb Johnson.

I was guilty of wandering off-piste when I mentiond it in the recent Francoise Hardy thread but perhaps inow is the right time to mention various Johnny clips you'll find in a series of pieces Robb wrote about his implausible hero worship at Salut! Live.

His articles start
here and there's a link to each subsequent instalment. And I think he's beginning to worry about the Sarko connection.

Thanks, incidentally, to those Mudcat folk who commented favourably on my old interview with Francoise. The YouTube version of Tous les Garcons that I referred to a few messages ago is at
http://www.francesalut.com/2007/07/francoise-hardy.html