Never heard of him.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/entertain ... index.html

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 last March, CNN affiliate BFM reported.
"We all have a piece of Johnny Hallyday inside everyone of us," a statement from President Emmanuel Macron's office said. "The public today is in tears, and the whole country mourns."

Hallyday's career spanned for more than half a century, filling up stadiums and selling millions of records. He was hardly known by many Americans, but he was called the French Elvis.
"The rock 'n' roll attitude which he brought from the US made him an idol to youth of the sixties," Macron's office said. "When the good days of rock 'n' roll were over, the public could have abandoned him but a new life for him began."

How is America holding up?

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He is immensely popular and the country is likely in a state of actual grief. I am heading back today, I wonder if the flags will be at full mast.

For France this would be like Michael Jackson's death. He is (was) absolutely huge there. Every old French dad I met since September has wanted to show me his pile of Johnny Hallyday shit. I had heard of him before in college when the instructor in French class said he was the world's most popular singer and Americans never heard of him, which obviously isn't entirely true but it does seem Americans never heard of him.

His music is mostly garbage.

I asked a friend of mine for her thoughts:
"I think its way worse than a terrorist attack what is happening here"

So there ya go.

That's crazy.

I believe it is meant to be sarcastic