“French rock is like English wine
”?
John Lennon, who knew a lot about the matter, once said.
If the cookie-cutter phrase is well in the expeditious manner of the founder of the Beatles, it testifies to the difficulty for France to produce credible rock stars.
Johnny Hallyday was a prophet only in his country, and France only knew how to produce local glories incapable of competing with Anglo-Saxon models.
From the 1950s to the 1990s, French music has rarely been able to compete with global competition.
The first artist to deny this state of affairs was Jean-Michel Jarre with
Oxygène
, in 1976, an album of instrumental and electronic music.
Along with the Germans of Kraftwerk, Jarre was one of the pioneers who marked the advent of continental Europe on the world music scene.
However, it will take two more decades for the French Touch to convince the planet that France was
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