1960, La foil you rock’n’roll

As early as 1955 with the Bill Haley and the Comets group, new music invaded bars and rooms of young Americans. In addition,

In the jukebox, on radio and television, in a few months rock is essential and crosses the Atlantic. Meanwhile, In less than a year. Meanwhile. some successful titles in the United States are translated and interpreted in France: Claude Rey, alias Mac Kac, resumes See You Later AlligatorHenri Salvador and Boris Vian offer a pastiche, Rock and Roll Mops.

Quickly, a debate is committed: is rock acceptable music? Furthermore, Journalist Pierre Drouin. Moreover. nicknamed Philidor, took a position 1960, la foil you rock’n’roll on October 4, 1956: rock is “A jazz caricature“, producing worrying effects on young people. He talks about”A precious potion intended to disarticulate respectability.“

Rock is accused of provoking violence: break the rooms and challenge order. In fact. when Bill Haley went to Olympia in October 1958. seven armchairs were broken and the public dances in the spans from the 1960, la foil you rock’n’roll first minutes. No one has been sitting. At that time, the singer and his group sold more than 35 million records worldwide, a dizzying figure. To manage his fans. the director of Olympia, Bruno Coquatrix, has little other solution than to bring down the iron curtain.

However, the rock phenomenon is only in its infancy. In France. he reveals hostility. a sign of an ambivalent look at American culture: an attraction for novelty, but a rejection of his excesses.

In 1960, a young singer became the symbol of this debate: 1960, la foil you rock’n’roll Johnny Hallyday. Her sales take off after her first appearance on television. thanks to the sponsorship of Line Renaud, who herself had tried rock. In the fall, he reoffends with a new disc.

However. an incident is controversial: a Radio Europe 1 host. Lucien Morisse, breaks Johnny’s disc directly by saying that it is a 1960, la foil you rock’n’roll disc that the public will hear “For the first and last time.“This sequence makes a big splash. Lucien Morisse, close to Dalida, hoped to promote the latter. However, it is the effect the opposite that occurs: Johnny becomes the true symbol of French rock.

In the midst of the Algerian war, Johnny Hallyday galvanizes 1960, la foil you rock’n’roll youth, who listens to him on transistors and Tourne-Disques. Critics accumulate: rock brings together the “black jackets” and seems to indefinite young people. The Communist Party. with the support of the Soviet authorities. firmly opposes this new musical genre, denouncing one “alienation of the people and Western decadence“.

In July 1961. the Gaullist deputy André Roulland asked for the ban on rock’n’roll concerts, denouncing “A unleashing of hysteria and unacceptable violence.“The Minister of the Interior Roger Frey refuses a general measure. believing that the events, although regrettable, do 1960, la foil you rock’n’roll not justify a ban. Even the Paris police prefect. Maurice Papon. confirms that he will not intervene against rock, while a few weeks before, he led the bloody repression of the peaceful demonstration of the FLN of October 17, 1961.

Seen from France, to do rock, you have to appear American. Like Johnny Hallyday, young singers take 1960, la foil you rock’n’roll pseudonyms: Richard Anthony, Eddy Mitchell, Dick Rivers. It is the way to appear modern. The young people saw it as best, their elders the worst. All this will later give beautiful memories, as Johnny already sang in 1960, with his famous title Memories, memories.