Photo: AFPFrance will pay a "people's homage" to the legendary rock star Johnny Hallyday with a procession down the Champs Elysees in Paris on Saturday. Johnny Hallyday's musicians will accompany the cortege as it heads down Paris's most famous avenue. But the French presidency stopped short of that, instead granting Hallyday, 74, who lost his long battle with lung cancer on Wednesday, a new kind ofceremony it dubbed a "homage populaire" or "people's tribute". Paris transport bosses had earlier renamed a Metro station after Hallyday, whose death has plunged France into mourning. The RATP transport authority temporarily changed the name of the Duroc station near the Invalides where Napoleon is buried to "DuRock Johnny".

Source: The Local December 07, 2017 13:26 UTC