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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