"Je ne suis pas un héros" ("I am not a hero") is a song by French singer Johnny Hallyday, released on his 1980 album À partir de maintenant.
However, he became further known in March 1980, when he clashed with François Mitterrand, the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, and who a year later would become the President of France, live on the national television news programme Antenne 2 Midi.
[4] Hallyday recorded the song in February 1980 during the sessions for his twenty-sixth album À partir de maintenant, which was released in June that year.
[6] "Je ne suis pas un héros" was not considered as a single, to the disappointment of Balavoine who believed that it had the potential to be Hallyday's number-one song that year.
This live version was then released as a single in November 1990 from Hallyday's album Dans la chaleur de Bercy.