Riviere Ouvre Ton Lit [Import]

Johnny Hallyday | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Philips Import
• ASIN: B00004T428
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,291 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Final Original Small Faces Album With Johnny Hallyday, July 24, 2008

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Christopher L. Dolmetsch (Hurricane, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Riviere Ouvre Ton Lit (Audio CD)

In March 1969 the original Small Faces played their final concert before splintering into Humble Pie (Steve Marriott) and the Faces (McLagan, Lane, and Jones). By the end of 1968 it was clear that the group was nearing its end as Marriott was hanging out with ex-Herd guitarist Peter Frampton and even inviting him along for gigs and the occasional recording session. Then in late December the group was asked to collaborate on French pop legend Johnny Hallyday's next project, a rock album showcasing Hallyday's attempt at hard-rock. With master engineer Glyn Johns at the helm, the group seemed eager to oblige. Sessions were held in London and in early January 1969 in Paris. Marriott and Lane donated three songs to the project ("Amen" was a retitled version of the Small Faces own "That Man" first recorded for DECCA back in 1966) and their assistance was most evident when one listens to the finished product. Indeed, this could well be called the final original Small Faces album, since the sessions that later produced such posthumous Small Faces compilations as "The Autumn Stone" were never brought to completion by the group itself. For any diehard Small Faces fan this album is a must have, despite the dominence of the French singing Hallyday. It sounds very much like a Small Faces album from that period. From here the band made a brief concert visit to Germany and Vienna, Austria (from which a rough bootlegged recording survives) and then it was all-too-soon over.

5.0 out of 5 stars French Rock'n Roll thunder greatness, June 27, 2006

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Duval - See all my reviews

This review is from: Riviere Ouvre Ton Lit (Audio CD)

Johnny Hallyday at his best in 1969, definitively. If you want to have an idea of what "Hard Rock" means, get this one, and the previous too "jeune homme", both were recorded with Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) on Lead Guitars. Killer ones.