50 years of French disco told in a documentary

He was born in 1973 and still makes all generations dance half a century later. Disco remains the festive musical genre par excellence. If it was the Americans who launched it, France also strongly contributed to its worldwide success. This is what François Chaumont says in his documentary “Disco, the French revolution”, to be enjoyed on Saturday April 15 at 9:10 p.m. on France 3.

Patrick Juvet signed on 1^er French disco hit with Where are the women in 1977. A year later, it was originally a folk singer, Patrick Hernandez, who flooded the airwaves with his Born to be alive, a title that no record company in France wanted. Same disappointment for Cerrone, who owes his planetary glory to a blunder by a French record store. And who remembers Space, a group with a futuristic sound and whose members are helmeted? The ancestors of Daft Punk!

So many anecdotes compiled by François Chaumont, media guest of Célyne Baÿt-Darcourt.