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All the hip glory of Paris in the ’60s, without the nasty cigarette smoke. [FRANCOPHILES ONLY] Tribute acts exist to help us suspend our disbelief that we are seeing our favorite rock bands in their heydays. It’s a concept I understood but never fully appreciated until I discovered Les Étrangers. The Portland-based quartet speaks directly to my [...]
Has all this talk of the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Goncourt from High School Students (des Lycéens), the Prix Goncourt from Women (the Fémina), the Prix Goncourt from Men (the Interallié), the non-Prix Goncourt (the Renaudot), and the Prix Smarter-than-the-Goncourt-Brothers...
After impersonating our favorite style icons (Monday=Francoise Hardy day, Tuesday=Bianca Jagger day, etc etc), our favorite pastime in the style department is probably shopping. But shopping is a lot more fun when you have a shop expert to help navigate the shelves/racks. Luckily our favorite stores are filled with lots of such specialists, all of whom know their German deadstock from their North...
Guy Peellaert is dead. Les aventures de Jodelle by Peellaert Guy Peellaert (April 6 1934 in Brussels, Belgium, 17 November 2008, Paris) is a Belgian artist, graphic designer, painter and photographer, best-known for his vinyl album cover designs of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Diamond Dogs by David Bowie. He debuted as a theater set designer but [...]
His 1967 song made him a star. Ms. Hardy's December 31, 1968 New Year's Eve performance above featured lyrics translated by Graeme Allwright and appears on her 1968 album "Comment Te Dire Adieu." She sang an English version on her...
TO BUY, CONTACT Disco.DVD@hotmail.com GREAT DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR ANY ORDER OF 7 DVDS OR MORE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING ACCEPTED PAYMENT METHODS: PayPal/bank transfer/money order/check/Western Union/cash VISIT OUR WEBSITE http://Disco.DVD.i8.com FOR MORE DVDs various artists French Stars Vol. 1 Label: SKYLTEX 805171 Date: 2008-06-30 Length: 1:10:28 Format: DVD Genre: French music; Disco; Pop Track Listing:...
In 1967 artist Guy Peellaert (later responsible for David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album cover, It's Only Rock and Roll for the Rolling Stones, and the classic coffee table book Rock Dreams, published one of the very first Pop Art comics, The Adventures of Jodelle. It's really amazing and you can find copies on the Internet ranging from $14 to $300. I have a copy and it's one of my prized possessions....
I haven't done one of these for a while, but this makes a nice follow-up to my post on Brel and Gainsbourg . See, I don't think the French get enough credit for their throw-away pop music (much less their first-rate song writers). So here's Françoise Hardy with one of the finest examples of the former. The combination of jaunty tune and melancholy is not an easy one to pull off (really, I think we...
