Tuesday 10 November 2009

REVIEW - ROCK ROCK ROCK: FRENCH ROCK 'N' ROLL 1956-1959

Just reviewed this intriguing and fairly bizarre compilation:
http://www.rockfort.info/content.aspx?cid=155




It doesn't make the case that the French - pre-Johnny Hallyday - were making tear-your-head-off rock 'n' roll, but instead says that rock 'n' roll penetrated the consciousness enough to produce these records.

A bunch of which are bonkers: accordions and clarinets on '50s rock 'n' roll!

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