French Rock'n'roll: What – No Accordion?
David McKenna, Guardian, The, 22 October 2004
CALL A COMPILATION Le Nouveau Rock'n'roll Français and, even now, you risk sparking associations with the figure most people take to represent the old French rock'n'roll – the affably vulpine but patently daft Johnny Halliday.
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