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At Sacem, the Yéyés say “yeah”

10/25/2022, 3:33:01 PM


CRITICISM – A virtual exhibition details how French song tamed the birth of rock'n roll. As the celebrations for the five years of the disappearance of Johnny Hallyday, at the beginning of December, are getting closer and Sheila is kicking off a tour for her 60-year career, Sacem is putting online an interesting free exhibition devoted to the Yeyes. A golden age without equal in the history of French music which became a social phenomenon for a seven-year period between 1959 and 1966

As the celebrations for the five years of the disappearance of Johnny Hallyday, at the beginning of December, are getting closer and Sheila is kicking off a tour for her 60-year career, Sacem is putting online an interesting free exhibition devoted to the Yeyes.

A golden age without equal in the history of French music which became a social phenomenon for a seven-year period between 1959 and 1966. Directed by Jean-Pierre Pasqualini, specialist in French song and director of programs of Melody TV, the virtual journey begins with the famous portrait signed Jean-Marie Périer where we recognize 66 young idols including Sylvie Vartan, Antoine, France Gall, Françoise Hardy and Jean-Jacques Debout.

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“On the occasion of the concert at the Nation in Paris where 150,000 young people gather, André Morin is the first to use the word “yéyé”, a neologism built on the Anglo-Saxon onomatopoeia “yeah””,

explains in introduction Jean -Pierre Pasqualini.

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