psych JOHNNY HALLYDAY s/t 1969 PHILIPS LP w/SMALL FACES

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JOHNNY HALLYDAY "JOHNNY HALLYDAY" 1969 PHILIPS LP (ORIGINAL CANADIAN PRESSING) - THIS IS ONE OF THE RAREST JOHNNY HALLYDAY ALBUM (VALUED BACK IN 1997 AT AROUND £195 IN MOJO MAGAZINE!) DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE BAND BACKING JOHNNY ON THE ALBUM IS NONE OTHER THAN THE SMALL FACES (THEIR FINAL RECORDINGS AS A BAND!), PLUS PETER FRAMPTON AND MICK JONES (SPOOKY TOOTH, FOREIGNER)! JOHNNY HALLYDAY SINGS INTENSE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK N' ROLL. MUSICALLY VERY SIMILAR TO "OGDEN'S NUT GONE FLAKE". LOTS OF INTENSE ORGAN AND PIANO. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BAND IS THE SMALL FACES, WHILE THE FIERCE GUITAR OCCASIONALLY VENTURES INTO SPOOKY TOOTH TERRITORY. THE ALBUM INCLUDES THREE SMALL FACES COMPOSITIONS! - MORE DETAILS AND INFORMATION ON THE SESSIONS BELOW...

Hallyday, Johnny - Johnny Hallyday (12" 33 LP, Cdn stereo, g/f) 1969 Philips 844 971 (personnel: the Small Faces ( Ron Wood, Kenney Jones, Steve Marriott, Ian McLagan ) plus Peter Frampton, includes 3 Small Faces songs (What you Will, Reclamation, and Amen)) (includes: Riviere...ouvre ton lit, Voyage au pays des vivants, Amen, Viens, Reclamation, Regarde pour moi, Je Te Veux, Les Anges de la Nuit, Je n’ai Besoin de personne, Je suis ne dans la rue) condition: VG+ (to VG++)/VG++ (rarest Johnny Hallyday album as he is backed by the SMALL FACES (their last recordings as a group! ) according to producer Glyn Johns it was following a quarrel at these sessions in France that the band split forever, mod psychedelia COVER: light rw, light scuffing on seams, 1” seam split at bottom center of pocket, minor scuffing in corners VINYL: superfiical scratch on does NOT affect play plays with only very slight surface noise)

SOME COMMENTS ON THESE SESSIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE SMALL FACES FOUND ON IANMCLAGAN. COM:
“INTERVIEWER KEN SHARP: What do you remember about the album when you guys backed up Johnny Hallyday?

IAN MCLAGAN: ... That was with Frampton. Mick Jones ... was writing and producing with Johnny Hallyday, and Glyn Johns was engineering. (everybody laughing) ... anyway, Mick Jones was writing and producing, and we were basically f*cked, we didn't have any money and didn't have any idea what was going on...we were looking for.... Maybe Steve was already leaving....I think Glyn Johns was trying to get Steve and Pete (Peter Frampton) together. That was when they got together. Mick Jones told me that Glyn Johns definitely broke up the Small Faces. I wrote a chapter in the book about it, but I don't know if it's true! (laughing) I gotta speak to Glyn about this -- I don't know if I should hate him (laughing). I don't know why we did the album, we were short of money, I think. I can't listen to it. It wasn't a great time in my life, I was pretty pissed off. I don't know which came first: Glyn Johns or Peter Frampton or Steve.

STEVE MARRIOTT: The best we sounded (at the end of the group) was when we did some sessions for Johnny Hallyday, and I took Peter Frampton with me to the sessions in Paris. This is where I thought "Oh he'd be good in the band itself." When we did these sessions, we were officially still on Immediate, but unofficially not. We were still under contract to Immediate, kind of, because they pulled an option on us -- that was what the dispute was over. They just let it ride and didn't tell us they had an option. Something like that went down. Glyn Johns asked us to come to Paris 'cos Johnny Hallyday had always been a fan of ours, and wanted the Smooth Faces -- as he used to call us -- to come over and back him. So it was great, we unloaded some songs on him, too. Songs from way back like "That Man" and stuff like that. And some new ones that I'd just began to write which appeared on the first Humble Pie album: "What You Will" and "Buttermilk Boy." I'm still getting money for that and it's terrific -- thank you, Johnny!

KENNEY JONES: I remember playing great. I actually enjoyed playing with Peter Frampton because his guitar playing at the time was great, he really impressed me."

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