Editing Johnny Hallyday (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Centre Ville - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Hallyday's handprint in Cannes Chemin des étoiles (Walk of Fame)]]
Hallyday was once called "the French [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/05/08/french-legend-johnny-hallyday-performs-berklee-performance-center/E5MkJipEG2P3PyJxDVjq2H/story.html |title=Johnny Hallyday is more than just a French Elvis |author=Christopher Muther |date=8 May 2014 |work=Boston Globe |access-date=27 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304299304577347813152763098 |title="French Elvis" Plays America |author=Marc Myers |access-date=26 January 2017 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=19 April 2012}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' described Hallyday as "a hip swiveling, leather-clad Gallic answer to Elvis Presley who shook up his home country's music scene with American-style rock-n-roll and bad-boy antics."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/johnny-hallyday-we-hardly-knew-you | title = Johnny Hallyday, We Hardly Knew You! | date = 6 December 2017 | access-date = 12 December 2017 | website = The Daily Beast | author = Erin Zaleski }}</ref> He remained largely unknown outside the [[Geographical distribution of French speakers|francophone world]] and was sometimes described as "the biggest rock star you've never heard of" in English-speaking countries.<ref name="Independent">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/le-fin-for-the-original-french-pop-idol-1684593.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/le-fin-for-the-original-french-pop-idol-1684593.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Le fin for the original French pop idol |work=The Independent |date=14 May 2009 |access-date=17 October 2009 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1507887/Go-go-Johnny-go-but-to-Belgium.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1507887/Go-go-Johnny-go-but-to-Belgium.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Go, go Johnny go – but to Belgium? |first1=Kim |last1=Willsher |first2=Justin |last2=Stares |date=15 January 2006 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=3 May 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/henrysamuel/9763659/End_of_the_road_for_Frances_Elvis/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110133747/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/henrysamuel/9763659/End_of_the_road_for_Frances_Elvis/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 November 2013 |title=End of the road for France's Elvis |first=Henry |last=Samuel |date=11 May 2009 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=3 May 2012}}</ref> He was made ''Chevalier'' (Knight) of the [[Legion of Honour]] in 1997<ref name="jorf19970101">{{Cite journal |journal=[[Journal Officiel de la République Française|JORF]] |volume=1997 |issue=1 |title=ORDRE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR Décret du 31 décembre 1996 portant promotion et |date=1 January 1997 |page=29 |id=PREX9612816D |url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=PREX9612816D |access-date=5 April 2009}}</ref> and Officer of the [[Order of the Crown (Belgium)]] in 2001.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.dhnet.be/medias/divers/johnny-hallyday-officier-de-l-ordre-de-la-couronne-51b7d81ce4b0de6db991608b "Johnny Hallyday, officier de l'ordre de la Couronne!"]. ''[[La Dernière Heure]]''. 2 June 2001. Retrieved 11 December 2017.</ref>

[[Jimmy Buffett]] paid tribute to Johnny with his song "Johnny's Rhum" on his 2023 album ''[[Equal Strain On All Parts]]''.