Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to Johnny Hallyday during French icon's funeral

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(9 Dec 2017) EMMANUEL MACRON PAYS TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY HALLYDAY DURING FRENCH ICON'S FUNERAL
The French president paid tribute to the country's biggest rock star on Saturday, as France bade farewell to Johnny Hallyday with an exceptional funeral procession down the Champs-Elysees, a presidential speech and a parade of motorcyclists.
Few figures in French history have earned a send-off as elaborate as the one for the man sometimes dubbed the French Elvis Presley.
It was ordered by French President Emmanuel Macron - a Hallyday fan himself, like generations of others across the French-speaking world.
Halliday was "a part of ourselves, a part of France," Macron told fans massed in central Paris for the funeral events.
Hallyday's death on Wednesday at age 74 after fighting lung cancer unleashed emotion across the country, where the man known to the public simply as Johnny had been an icon for more than half a century.


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