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Johnny Hallyday, French rock star, dies aged 74, Le Figaro has learned.

France’s biggest rockstar, Johnny Hallyday, the leather-trousered “French Elvis” who sold over 110m albums over a career spanning more than half a century, has died aged 74. 

“Johnny Hallyday has left us. I write these words without believing them. But yet, it’s true. My man is no longer with us,” his wife Laeticia Hallyday said on Wednesday.

“He left us tonight as he lived his whole life, with courage and dignity.”

Hallyday had been battling lung cancer.

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