Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe is a pop culture specialist, activist, writer and performer. He's written for several US, UK & Aussie magazines (Roctober, Shindig, Outre !) along with several publication from his homeland (Rock n Folk, Technikart, Standard & Playboy). He's written several books including, ''Cinepop'' (the ultimate & subjective pop film guide), ''La Confiserie Magique'' (on US & european sunshine & bubblegum pop) & ''JX Williams Les Dossiers Interdits." He runs the label Martyrs of Pop which featured April March who recorded with Bertrand Burgalat and Brian Wilson and was included in Tarantino's Deathproof soundtrack. Lio took her stage name from pages of Jean-Claude Forest's comic serie, Barbarella. Just a few years later Jean-Claude Forest himself told Lio she was the incarnation of all the dream womens he drew. Lio is a pop icon that has fans as diverse as Debbie Harry, Lux Interior, The Sparks and Phil Oakey. To this very day she still draw crowds of thousands wherever she performs.

ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The 1960sPanorama Chapter 2: Social AffairsYé-Yé Girls and Marriage Chapter 3: The MediaA General View The Rock Papers Television Chapter 4: The Four Aces of HeartsFrance Gall Françoise Hardy Sylvie Vartan Chantal Goya Chapter 5: Serge Gainsbourg's Filles de la Pop Serge Gainsbourg: From Literary Chanteur to Pop Entrepreneur Initials BB Jane B: Nationality: British. Sex: Female His Majesty Serge's Court of (Other) Favorites Chapter 6: More Pop Mademoiselles Gillian Hills Katty Line Chantal Kelly Cléo Clothilde Chapter 7: Girl Bands Les Parisiennes, Les Gam's, Les Petites Souris, Les Fizz, Les Fléchettes, and Les Chimeriennes Chapter 8: Francophile Filles Petula Clark Sandie Shaw Marianne Faithfull Nico Chapter 9: They Sang in French for a Season Louise Cordet Carol Friday Astrud Gilberto Mary Hopkin Lulu Sonny & Cher Dusty Springfield Dana Gillepsie Mary Roos Jeanette Claudine Longet Joanna Shimkus Chapter 10: Funny Girls Elizabeth Christie Laume Monique Thubert Vetty Natacha Snitkine Caroline Chapter 11: Three or Four 45s I Know About Her Chapter 12: Close Encounters of the Pop Kind Dani Zouzou Annie Philippe Christine Pilzer Laura Ulmer Françoise Deldick Pussy Cat Stella Chapter 13: Psych and Folk Girls Victoire Scott Véronique Sanson Catherine Lara Other Psych, Folk, and Pop Late '60s/Early '70s Girls:Julie Saget Brigitte Fontaine Claude Lombard Sophie Makhno Léonie Ann Sorel Anna St. Clair Louise Forestier Charlotte Leslie Uta Elisa Ellen Le Roy Geneviève Ferreri Charlotte Walters Jodie Foster Chapter 14: Eighties Girls (and One Man) Lio Jacques Duvall Jil Caplan Marie-France Les Calamités Niagara Mathématiques Modernes Mikado/Pascale Borel Elli & Jacno/Elli Medeiros Chapter 15: Modern Days April March Helena Noguerra Laetitia Sadier Stereo Total/Françoise Cactus Bertrand Burgalat Barbara Carlotti Fifi Chachnil Conclusion Discography Bibliography Acknowledgments

Yé-yé is a delightful style of pop music featuring young femalesingers that influenced France, Québec and other European countries with its"camp” style throughout the 1960s.This collection by pop music expert Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe includes manyinterviews with the original singers and producers, and hundreds of visualexamples of record covers, magazines, and a teenaged fan's scrapbook fromthe period.This book includes the famous Yé-Yé practitioners Sylvie Vartan, France Gall, Françoise Hardy, Chantal Goya, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin and dozens of others, including perverse Serge Gainsbourg.Yé-Yé had secondary explosions in the 1970s and 1990s in Japan and Europethrough the likes of Lio (who provides this book's foreword), and in theUnited States through singers like April March, whose Yé-Yé number "ChickHabit” was heard in the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof. Interest in Yé-Yéexploded again when Megan Draper sang the Yé-Yé number "Zou Bisou Bisou,”originally made famous by Gillian Hills, in the 5th season of Mad Men.Be prepared to be immersed in this beloved but cruelly neglected popmusic genre.