boum badaboum !

Eurovision has wrapped up for another year, but thanks to the magic of the internet, pretty much every ...

françoise hardy's hit parade, 1966

While flipping through my collection of vintage French magazines the other day, I came across an interesting little ...

la résistance

Like so many, I am angry, confounded, saddened by the state of the world. 2016 just keeps kicking us in the arse. I ...

that's no way to say goodbye

So long, Leonard. Thank you for the achingly beautiful words and music. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye ( Live at ...

blood red rose

A mix for Halloween featuring music from 70s European horror soundtracks, eerie vintage folk-pop, ...

jacques dutronc and friends on swiss 60s tv

An eleventh-hour discovery in the RTS archives as I was about to publish the last entry , this video was too good a ...

60s french pop finds in the rts archives

Radio Télévision Suisse has an excellent online audiovisual archive which includes a number of videos ...

from 1974: 50 albums you can't live without

You might not expect to find a decent music guide in a 70s teen girl magazine, but that's exactly what I came ...

uta, part one

Uta - Hier, aujourd'hui, demain (1969) German born, French-based actress Uta Taeger released one single in 1969, ...