Alain Chennevière (1959-) En 1971, a l’âge de 12 ans, Alain Chennevière découvre le Rock and Roll des années cinquante en regardant l’émission “Point chaud” d’Albert Raisner, un extrait de “Be-Bop-A-Lula” tiré du film “La blonde et moi” (The Girl Can’t Help It) y était diffusé en hommage à Gene Vincent décédé le 12 octobre 1971. En 1976, Alain […]
The Colourful Era
Early 1970s rock’n’roll bands
Hard to believe that people with long bedraggled hair and intellectual-looking baldies liked rock’n’roll once and that it wasn’t compulsory to have a quiff in the early 1970s. When you think about it, it doesn’t make sense that you should have a particular hairstyle to like a particular music, but that’s reckoning without the teds […]
1980s Frankfurt rock’n’rollers
Ulf Bender, a rock’n’roller since 1977, ich komme aus Sachsenhausen…war mit den Jungs aus ganz Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Aschaffenburg und Karlsruhe unterwegs… War ‘ne geile Zeit
1977-1985 Les Rockin’ Rebels
Founded in March 1977, the Parisian Rockin’ Rebels was the earliest French rock’n’roll revival band whose vestimentary look evolved through their nine-year career from a 1970s-style to a fifties-style rockin’ band by 1981. ‘Tony Marlow’ (born Gérard Toubeau in Charleroi, Belgium, in 1954) – drummer then singer of the group – was wowed by rock’n’roll […]
1978 – 1983 Finland, the rockin’ nation
Here is a half-hour Finnish tv-programme from 2007 Elävä Arkisto ‘Live Archive’ revisiting the Finnish rockin’ revival of the late 1970s and 1980s when Finland experienced the strongest revival of fifties music in Europe and the World which made them the world’s rockingest nation of the time, a tradition that has fortunately not been lost completely […]
1982 The rockabillies of Évreux, France
Évreux, a provincial town in Normandy, not far from Rouen. Not an obvious rock’n’roll hot-spot around the early 1980s ? Yet it was, perhaps inspired by the fact that there was a US air-base from 1952 onwards until France withdrew from the integrated command of NATO in 1967. During these years up to 9,000 personnel lived […]
