A1 	Fool For The Blues 	4:32
A2 	(I Wanna) Make Love To You 	4:26
A3 	Love Affair    (Feat. Kathy Mattea)	5:10
A4 	Hurricane 	5:11
A5 	Can't Stop Wanting You 	4:29
A6 	Are The Chances Gone 	5:05
B1 	Rough Town 	4:22
B2 	Lightnin' 	5:02
B3 	Dry Spell 	7:52
B4 	You're Mine 	4:52
B5 	Before You Change Your Mind 	4:04
B6 	It's A Long Way Home 	4:06

Jon Astley - Strings 
Leslie Butler - Harmonica
Sam Clayton - Percussion
Bob Enos - Trumpet
Terry Evans - Vocals (Background)
Johnny Hallyday - Primary Artist, Vocals
Richie Hayward - Drums
James "Hutch" Hutchinson - Bass
Colin James - Guitar (Electric), Mandolin
Bobby King - Vocals (Background)
Rich Lataille - Sax (Alto)
Chuck Leavell - Organ
Robin LeMesurier - Guitar (12 String), Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Kathy Mattea - Performer, Primary Artist
Sean Murphy - Vocals (Background)
Bill Payne - Piano, Wurlitzer
Greg Piccolo - Sax (Tenor)
Carl Querfurth - Trombone
Paul Rafferty - Vocals (Background)
Doug Schlecht - Sax (Baritone)
Phil Soussan - Bass
Ray Williams - Vocals (Background)
Ian Wilson - Vocals (Background)

I bet it depends on how you guys 'over there' rate this kind of stuff. But for us, europeans, Johnny Hallyday is the closest you can get to american music, rock and blues, and still stay european.

I am not sure this CD is made for american public. Some of you might find it disapointing. But for us, it has a lot of the great american sound, but still is european. Johnny could find out to mix the two kinds. As in Star Trek: He made the best of both worlds.

BTW, Johnny has also made music in italian, and I can assure you than his english accent is much better than his italian... And for a french boy, his english is just great! ---Cyril Malka, amazon.com

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01 - Mein Leben fängt erst richtig an
02 - Lass die Leute doch reden
03 - Wilde Boys
04 - Das alte Haus in New Orleans
05 - Ma Guitare               play
06 - Aber nur mit mir
07 - Ja der Elefant
08 - It's Monkeytime
09 - Vielleicht bist du für mich noch nicht die grosse Liebe (feat. Sylvie Vartan)

Johnny Hallyday was France's first and only full-fledged rock star. Other French artists may have been influenced by rock & roll, but none was as beholden to the original sources, or as enduringly successful, as Hallyday. He was a distinctly French phenomenon, never achieving recognition in the U.S. or U.K.; certainly, part of the reason was that a good chunk of his repertoire consisted of French-language covers of early American rock hits. Moreover, his appropriations of Elvis Presley and James Dean captured the French imagination, but -- language barrier aside -- were often too stylized and imitative to resonate with audiences used to the genuine article. Yet even if his musical interpretations lacked some of the punch of their sources, his sense of rock & roll style, with all its rebellious trappings, was impeccable. His stage presence was undeniably electric, and his life was the stuff of which tabloid reporters' dreams are made: high-profile romances (and breakups), cocaine use, chronic tax problems, a taste for auto racing and motorcycles, and other assorted fallouts from life in the fast lane. In the end, though, Hallyday's appeal rested on a central balancing act: he may have been fascinated by a foreign cultural phenomenon, but he managed to maintain his essential Frenchness. His covers provided a way for American rock & roll to conquer France, adapting it to fit the country's own sensibilities without threatening its well-protected cultural autonomy. His later move into quintessentially French balladry helped increase his cross-generational appeal, and somewhat mirrored the career trajectory of his hero Elvis. With a career of several decades behind him, and sales figures in the tens of millions, the unconditionally adored Hallyday still ranks among France's greatest cultural icons.

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