Format | 3 Audio CD |
Ordering Number | FA5418 |
Barcode | 3561302541822 |
label | Fremeaux |
Release date | 4/1/2015 |
salesrank | 7572 |
After the Liberation of Paris, the eyes of some French youngsters were riveted on American records and by the turn of the Sixties, rock & roll’s energy had supplanted jazz in the cellar-clubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Teppaz turntables made the 45rpm disc a democratic object, a household consumer-product which was a symbol of youth. And youths everywhere found a way to let off steam in the heated energy of U.S. rock. This selection by François Jouffa and Pierre Layani contains the best of 1960-1962, the period when the first records from Johnny Hallyday and Eddy Mitchell were bursting onto the scene, before they became monuments of French popular music. Patrick FRÉMEAUX