Is there really a war between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, or at least between their admirers? As it is announced that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are collaborating on the next Stones album, let’s take a look back at a legendary competition.
In 1966, France Gall recorded this song written by her father, and composed by her brother, which evokes a bit of cultural and media news in France. It’s a complicated war, two years before May 68: on the one hand, the front line between the conservatives of France with short hair, and a youth who loves rock, and lets their hair grow, on the other part, between the different aesthetic families of this youth. As for her, France Gall has chosen…
This week, there has been a lot of speculation in the media about the final end of the famous almost theological quarrel: are you more Beatles or more Rolling Stones? Indeed, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving Beatles, would have participated in the recording of the next Rolling Stones album. So it’s a kind of existential vertigo for anyone who has thought of the world as founded on an opposition between the two great groups in the history of rock.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
France Gall, The war of songs1966
Stone, Day, Night1966
Stone, Only1966
Alain Souchon, Lennon kaput waltz1983
Alain Souchon, We bring back our hair2019
Starshooter, Get Baque1978
France Gall, Teenie Weenie Boppie1967
Dalida, I naturally prefer1966
Diane Dufresne, weekend on the moon1979
France Gall, The war of songs1966
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