his relatives tell the first signs of his lung cancer

This October 15, relatives of Johnny Hallyday deliver their memories of the trip on Route 66 on a motorcycle where the rocker felt the first symptoms of his lung cancer.

An unforgettable singer. Since his death in December 2017, Johnny Hallyday remains in everyone’s memories. The one who all relatives say has “burnt life at both endsEddy Mitchell is one of Johnny Hallyday’s long-time friends. 1980s, Laura Smet’s father asked her to bring back a luthier’s guitar from Nashville. “Made-to-measure, handmade in three weeks, that I pay 30,000 dollars out of my pocket”, specifies Eddy Mitchell, who was slightly disappointed when he saw what he did with it: “I repatriate it to my friend – who will also forget to reimburse me for a while – then I will listen to it at the Zenith. He attacks Tutti Frutti, two chords, on this luxury guitar. And at the end of the song, bling, I see him throwing it into the audience! There I watched $ 30,000 go up in smoke. “

“Something was wrong”

Among the memories that the rocker left, there are also the first signs of his illness. In the fall of 2016, Johnny Hallyday took exams and discovered that he was suffering from lung cancer. But the first signs that led him to be examined date back to a few months earlier. Johnny Hallyday travels the United States as he has always dreamed of. Launched on a motorcycle on the famous Route 66, he rides for several days with his friends. But quickly, the rocker complains of having trouble breathing. “Johnny confesses to his comrades that he feels short of breath ‘“, explains the magazine Paris Match of this October 15. “Like an idiot I told him: ‘Me too’. I couldn’t imagine it was anything else “, admits Claude Billon. For her part, Laeticia Hallyday joined them during a stage. While she is happy to find her husband, she “understands that her man suffers morally, physically“, describes the magazine which specifies that” lhe first problems appeared in May. Already she was terrified “. Director of the film which traces Johnny Hallyday’s trip that year, François Goetghebeur remembers: “Johnny didn’t officially know he was sick. But in retrospect, I think he knew. Finally … that he felt that something was wrong“. A few days before his death, Johnny Hallyday had been able to watch the famous film of his adventures with his friends, in his home in Marnes-la-Coquette.