Les Idoles - Simon le magicien - song 4

Another clip from "Les Idoles," made in 1968, about the rise, malaise and fall of three French pop and rock'n'roll -- otherwise known as "yé-yé" -- stars, (The Idols), and the madness they are propelled towards by themselves and those with a vested interest in their pop success.

Originally performed as a play in 1966 by the same cast members here, who all then went on to greater prominent roles in films by Buñuel, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Godard, Rivette (Ogier frequently), Chabrol, Fassbinder, Téchine, Schroeter, Assayas, Lelouch, Garrel, Duras, Makavejev, Rocha, Costa-Gavras, Jancsó, Ruiz, de Oliveira, and Alain Tanner.

The most clear example of proto-painpop.

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• freakbeat
• idoles
• kalfon
• clémenti
• bulle
• ogier
• yé-yé
• yéyé
• yé
• painpop
• proto-painpop
• Idols
• French
• pop
• rock'n'roll