Johnny Hallyday set for Albert Hall gig  'French Elvis'
rock'n'roller to play inaugural UK concert more than 50 years
after his first hit single Johnny Hallyday set to play Royal
Albert Hall Johnny Hallyday performs at the Beacon Theatre in
New York this month. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty
Images  He has returned from the dead so many times in recent
years that seeing him alive and breathing on stage in his
trademark black leather trousers is surely akin to a religious
experience. But Johnny Hallyday, the ageing French Elvis, who
recently narrowly avoided yet another round of the French
media's last rites when he was hospitalised for bronchitis
following a back operation that went wrong and cancer rumours,
is now to prove he is "fine" with a symbolic first UK gig, at
the Albert Hall, next week.  Hallyday, the US-style French-
language rocker who has sold more than 100m albums and played
live to 28 million people, has always made a joke of his record
labels not pushing him on to the US and UK markets.