Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer, pianist and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love". He remained a popular artist for nearly fifty years, identifiable in his dark blue suits, with a white shirt and "lucky tie"; blue with white polka dots. When asked to explain his gift he said, "A flower doesn't understand botany." His favourite venue was the Paris Olympia under the management of Bruno Coquatrix. He debuted there in 1954 and headlined in 1955, attracting 6,000 on his first night, three times the capacity. On 13 November 1997, Bécaud was present for the re-opening of the venue after its reconstruction.
Frank Ténot was a French press agent, pataphysician, and jazz critic. He managed a number of publications over the course of his long association with Daniel Filipacchi, a publisher of multiple magazines who had started as a photographer and jazz expert. Together they founded the influential radio show Salut les copains, featuring rock and roll, and the spin-off magazine magazine of the same name. It was later renamed as Salut!.
Françoise Madeleine Hardy is a retired French singer-songwriter. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure of the yé-yé wave. In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian and German. Her career spanned more than fifty years with over thirty studio albums released.
Yé-yé or yeyé was a style of pop music that emerged in Western-Southern Europe in the early 1960s. The French term yé-yé was derived from the English "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands such as the Beatles. The style expanded worldwide as the result of the success of figures such as French singer-songwriters Sylvie Vartan, Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy. Yé-yé was a particular form of counterculture that derived most of its inspiration from British and American rock and roll. Additional stylistic elements of yé-yé song composition include baroque, exotica, pop, jazz and the French chanson.
Michel Berger was a French singer and songwriter. He was a leading figure of France's pop music scene for two decades as a singer; as a songwriter, he was active for such artists as his wife France Gall, Françoise Hardy or Johnny Hallyday. He died of a heart attack at age 44.
"Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops") is a French pop song written by Serge Gainsbourg and first recorded by France Gall in 1966. One of Gall's biggest hits, it was an unusually risqué song for its time, although she has said she was unaware of the fact when performing it.
Ronnie Bird is a French singer.
Nuno Resende is a Portuguese singer.
Jean-Marie Périer is a French photographer and film director.
Jean-Michel Delpech, known as Michel Delpech, was a French singer-songwriter and actor.
Salut les copains was a famous French variety pop music radio program broadcast between 1959 and 1969, from Monday to Friday for 2 hours on French radio station Europe 1. It was known to have originally promoted and launched the success of the French musical genre of yé-yé.
Salut les copains later changed to Salut! was a renowned French music variety magazine published between 1962 and 2006.
Salut les copains is a series of albums released through Universal Music France to commemorate the best of music featured in French scene as sponsored by the "Salut les copains" radio program in France and the French Salut les copains magazine. The tracks include French original singles, French-language covers of known hits as well as European and American hits popular in France. The track list is a representative wide selection of the "Yé-yé" generation of French music.
Salut les copains, full title Salut les copains: Le Spectacle Musicale is a 2012 French musical comedy written by Pascal Forneri and directed and choreographed by Stéphane Jarny based on the yé-yé generation of music of the period exemplified by the French renowned radio program Salut les copains and the ensuing music magazine of the same title.
La question is the eleventh studio album by French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy, released in October 1971 on Sonopresse. Like many of her previous records, it was originally released without a title and came to be referred to, later on, by the name of its most popular song. It is her second album produced under Hypopotam, a production company she established in 1970. The music on the album was almost entirely composed by the Brazilian musician Tuca, who supervised the project and participated as a guitarist.
Jean-Patrick Capdevielle is a French songwriter, composer, singer, musician and painter who influenced the French rock scene in the 1980s.
Love Me, Please Love Me is the 1966 debut album by French singer-songwriter Michel Polnareff. It was known originally as the self-titled album Michel Polnareff, but was identified later by the title song "Love Me, Please Love Me".
Edmond Vartan was a French musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer of Armenian descent.
Thiên Hương, usually credited as Tiny Yong, is a singer who was popular in France during the 1960s. She was born in French Indochina, and is of Vietnamese ancestry.
Jacques Bulostin, known in his singing career as Monty and later as Jacques Monty, is a French singer, songwriter and record producer.
