<DIV>Yé-yé is a delightful style of pop music featuring young female<BR>singers that influenced France, Québec and other European countries with its<br>?camp” style throughout the 1960s.<BR><BR>This collection by pop music expert Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe includes many<br>interviews with the original singers and producers, and hundreds of visual<br>examples of record covers, magazines, and a teenaged fan’s scrapbook from<br>the period.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Yé-Yé had secondary explosions in the 1970s and 1990s in Japan and Europe<br>through the likes of Lio (who provides this book’s foreword), and in the<br>United States through singers like April March, whose Yé-Yé number ?Chick<br>Habit” was heard in the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof. Interest in Yé-Yé<br>exploded again when Megan Draper sang the Yé-Yé number ?Zou Bisou Bisou,”<br>originally made famous by Gillian Hills, in the 5th season of Mad Men.<BR><BR>Be prepared to be immersed in this beloved but cruelly neglected pop<br>music genre.</DIV>