Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop
A glossy, gossipy history of Gallic female pop icons … [Deluxe’s book] is not just pleasing on the eye, though, and there is substance in both the text and the music it highlights. — David Hutcheon,Mojo MagazineThis is the book fans of France’s yé-yé sound have been waiting for. The main course is a generous helping of all the singers we love. From the ‘big four’ to the second division of singers – with a generous dusting of foreign femmes, funny girls and folk mademoiselles for good measure – this book has them all. —Ready Steady GirlsDeluxe’s volume is not a glorified pin-up book or fashion tome. If you really want to learn about the lives and music of yé-yé’s leading and lesser-known lights, you won’t find a more informative English-language account than this one. —The NationalEven without hearing a note of the music celebrated in Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe’s collection “Yé-Yé Girls of ’60s French Pop,” it’s impossible not to be seduced by the mesmerizing melodies of Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, Zouzou and their sorority of chanteuses. —Chicago TribuneFact: Everybody's coffee table can use an extra dose of eye candy. Especially when it comes in the form of Ye-Ye Girls of '60s French Pop, the new color-drenched tome that serves up style inspiration as well as an in-depth look into music history. —Nylon MagazineThe Internet has long been the hub for English-speaking ’60s French-pop fans seeking out obscure facts about their favorite records, but finally the country’s female-side of ’60s pop has been given its very own English-language bible in print—Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe’s Yé-Yé Girls of ’60s French Pop. —Cha Cha CharmingThis lavishly illustrated compendium is like a passport to another time and place…a window into an era in which one could switch on the TV & see Bridget Bardot singing about Harley Davidson motorcycles while wearing thigh-high boots and a black leather mini-skirt. This book may well be the Bible of Yé-Yé. —Boyd Rice