Guitar rock is not dead!
It certainly no longer interests young people, but continues to be carried as a standard by some of its historical representatives.
Morrissey, 63, has not performed in Paris for eight years.
Even if his recording career is at half mast (his record company refuses to release his new album) and he is infrequent on a personal level, he remains one of the greatest performers of the last forty years.
We are also celebrating the anniversary of the first single of the group that revealed it, The Smiths, paragon of eighties guitar pop.
A few years earlier, The Stranglers imposed their poisonous formula on the English charts.
True "terrorists" of the scene, they are no longer embodied except by their historic bassist, the Franco-British Jean-Jacques Burnel, 71, now surrounded by young musicians.
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