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Cheveux longs et idées courtes

"Cheveux longs et idées courtes"
Single by Johnny Hallyday
from the album La Génération perdue
LanguageFrench
English titleLong hair and short ideas
Released10 May 1966
RecordedStudio Blanqui, Paris
GenreFolk rock
Length3:40
LabelPhilips
Songwriter(s)Gilles Thibaut
Producer(s)Lee Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday singles chronology
"Je l'aime"
(1966) 		"Cheveux longs et idées courtes"
(1966) 		"Noir c'est noir"
(1966)

"Cheveux longs et idées courtes" (translated title: Long hair and short ideas) is a song by French singer Johnny Hallyday. It was released in May 1966 and was featured on Hallyday's studio album "La Génération perdue" later that same year, being the lead single of the aforementioned album.

History

The song was a diss track directed at the singer Antoine, who had criticized Johnny Hallyday in the lyrics of Élucubrations d'Antoine as a has-been artist. In Cheveux longs et idées courtes, Hallyday mocks Antoine's status as a pacifist, idealistic protest singer as being fake and naïve.[1]

Commercial performance

The song spent five consecutive weeks at no. 1 on the singles sales chart in France (from 14 May to 17 June 1966).[2]

Charts

Chart (1966) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[3] 6
France (singles sales)[2] 1

References

  1. ^ Frédéric Quinomero, Johnny la vie en rock , 2014, Éditions L'Archipel.
  2. ^ a b "Cheveux longs, idées courtes - Johnny Hallyday - Hit-Parade.net". Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  3. ^ "Johnny Hallyday – Cheveux longs et idées courtes" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
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