Johnny Hallyday

A guitar, the smashing of which triggered the break-up of Oasis stars Liam and Noel Gallagher, goes under the hammer in Paris next month alongside other rock memorabilia.

The French rock star and actor Johnny Hallyday has died aged 74.

The music star who sold more than 110 million records during his career had been battling lung cancer and was hospitalized on November 17 in Paris.

'Johnny Hallyday has left us,' Hallyday's wife, Laeticia, said in a statement on Wednesday. 

France's best-known rock star Johnny Hallyday has died aged 74 after a battle with lung cancer, his wife Laeticia said on Dec. 6.

France honored the victims of Islamist militant attacks last year in a thinly attended silent ceremony on Jan. 10, almost a year to the day when more than a million people marched in Paris to protest killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.