The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, recounts an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to collective history. Reports that reveal “the little story in the big one”, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 4 of “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” celebrates the rebellion of free radio and the comeback of vinyl…
The day when > The sling of free radios
Still and always, the radio remains the favorite medium of the French, a space of freedom of tone, of music… However, it has not always been like this! We had to fight to have free radios. In the 1970s, radio was still a state monopoly, until a band of jolly fellows decided to make it a space of freedom, sweet madness, and also protest, in the heart of Giscardian France, under the nose and beard of censorship. Among those who led the revolt, Coluche, Brice Lalonde or Laurence Boccolini…
And also, vinyls, jukeboxes…
News > The strong comeback of vinyl
About ten years ago, vinyl records were found mainly in garage sales and among discerning music lovers. With the rise of streaming and digital, we thought vinyl was doomed and yet the opposite is happening. Now, all artists require a vinyl version of their album upon release, and in some major stores, vinyls can account for up to 30% of music sales.
Bonuses > Christophe, the collector
Daniel Bevilacqua, known as Christophe, left the scene in the spring of 2020 at the age of 74. He was a great collector, of vinyls but also of jukeboxes…
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– Free radios, 30 years of FM, under the direction of Thierry Lefebvre and Sébastien Poulain (ed. L’Harmattan).
– FM, the crazy history of free radios, by Annick Cojean (ed. Grasset).
– Record stores, a story, the passion for vinyl, by Francis Dordor (GM Editions).
Non-exhaustive list.
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