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mardi 15 décembre 2009

Doctors try to bring 'French Elvis' Johnny Hallyday out of an induced coma

Doctors started to bring Johnny Hallyday, the singer nicknamed the “French Elvis”, out of an induced coma last night in Los Angeles, where he was taken to hospital last week after a post-operative infection.

With the 66-year-old rocker’s ill health making headlines in his home country, a specialist flew from Paris to take charge of the treatment and President Sarkozy said that he was keeping abreast of what has become a national drama.

Feelings are running high; so much so that the French celebrity surgeon who performed the hernia operation blamed for causing the infection was beaten up by hooded men outside his home in Paris last week.

Jean-Claude Camus, the idol’s impresario, announced that he, too, was to fly to Los Angeles after coming under fire for allegedly driving the star too hard. He will be accompanied by a second French doctor who has been asked by Hallyday’s insurers to determine whether Tour 66 — described as the farewell tour — can resume as planned in January. Hallyday’s fans, who include a considerable proportion of France’s 64 million inhabitants, would be likely to react with outrage to any attempt to get him back on the road too quickly.

Questions are already being asked about how France’s most prominent rock singer, who was born Jean-Philippe Smet, came to find himself in an eight-day coma in Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in California.

Critics say that it was a mistake to let him fly out of Paris four days after having an operation for a slipped disc, which was caused when he fell on his yacht near Monaco this summer. Some also say that it was a mistake to let him resume Tour 66 after he underwent another operation to remove a growth in his prostate in August. Hallyday said that the problem was prostate cancer; his advisers claimed that the growth had been benign.

As for the exact nature of the infection keeping him in hospital in Los Angeles, it is the subject of fierce speculation — and few hard facts.

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