"Cheveux longs et idées courtes" (translated title: "Long hair and short thoughts") 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 ("Lost generation") 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.Frédéric Quinomero, Johnny la vie en rock, 2014, Éditions L'Archipel.
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).
Charts Chart (1966)Peakposition France (singles sales) 1
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