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| Vidéos : JacquelineTaieb |
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| JACQUELINE TAIEB- "7:00 AM" (1966) |
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"Born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1948, Jacqueline...
recorded her first disc for Impact records;
'7 heures du matin' (7:00 AM), when she was
18. Her songs combined Arab, European and
American influences. Her Sixties EPs are
highly prized for their garage sound. With
her strong vocals, and talent for pop
melodies, Jaqueline's songs are real gems
that still sound fresh today."
-THE YEYE GIRLS WEBSITE,
http://members.tripod.com/ye_ye_girls/artists
/taieb.html
The combo of garage crunch with her teen
disdain predicts everyone from the Runaways
and Nikki & The Corvettes to Bratmobile and
the Donnas. Her youthful impatience with the
status quo and personal declaration through
rock and fashion captures the spirit of the
mid-60s, and its center, London,
particularly.
The Beatles had ignited a youth firestorm.
London was virtually transformed overnight in
its wake. Before them, young men and women
were quiet junior clones of their
status-obsessed parents. Designer Mary Quant
snubbed the couture world of the middle-aged,
pumping out bold modernist clothes for young
rocking girls. She killed bouffants and prom
dresses with Mod bobs and miniskirts;
kickstarted boutiques on Carnaby Street and
King's Road; branched into make-up kits and
accessories; trailiblazed Swinging London,
and reinvented the modern Fashion world as we
know it. Her "five point haircut" was
invented by young Vidal Sassoon. Their modern
girl, with disposable cash, zest for kicks
and sex, and brash futurist style would
reverberate around the world as strongly as
the Beatles' music. All their hallmarks are
evident in our French chanteuse and her ode
to awakening.
To check out more of my Herstory Of Rock, go
to:
http://www.youtube.com/funknroll
A great site about 60's women rockers to
check out is:
http://www.myspace.com/girlgaragemayhem
(All rights reserved. Fan-made video to
promote the artists.)
Tym Stevens
Tags : JacquelineTaieb Beatles Who SwingingLondon 1960sFashion YeYe GarageRock AprilMarch MarevaGalanter Bardot FrancoiseHardy |
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Affichage : 21753
Durée : 130 s |
| THE WHAT FOUR-"I'M GONNA DESTROY THAT BOY" (1966) |
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Killer fashion!
The What four were championed by Columbia
producer Teo Macero (Miles Davis' fusion
albums). They played their own instruments,
although they felt a little wobbly about it.
But this single needs no apologies. Riffing
off of the spy themes of the times, they
divulge their undercover misson to slay their
prey with their outergear and, um, special
accessories.
The fashion revolution of Swinging London
swayed young women into a jet age where
music, style, the Pill, and new outlooks
expanded their options. This literal 'revolt
into style' opened many horizons. Taking up
from Mary Quant's Mod mutiny, designer
Barbara Hulanicki unleashed the Biba's
boutique. ( It was her sister's nickname.)
Her Art Deco and Art Nouveau upgrades, dark
lush colors, and affordable styles made
solely for the new youth were another level
and a sensation. She also pioneered the
boutique as an environment, with rock'n'soul
blasting in a dark maze of themed rooms. Her
progressive/traditionalist designs are the
hinge between Rudi Gernreich's space age
futurism and the nouveau and world-culture
backlash styles of the counterculture. From
1964 to its end in 1975, Biba's was THE go-to
place for outrageous style. ( The current
revival is in name only, and Hulanicki
disowns it.)
The fashion uprising liberated young women on
some levels, but there was the danger of it
being just shallow consumerism. As
Empowerment became the mantra of the decade,
they would begin to challenge distinctions
between expression and exploitation. This is
a crucial pivot toword Feminism. The What
Four, in taking up the instruments that
propelled the generation, join their Beat and
Garage sisters in redressing the future.
Check out my Herstory Of Rock on my channel
at:
http://www.youtube.com/funknroll
A great site about 60's women rockers to
check out is:
http://www.myspace.com/girlgaragemayhem
(All rights reserved. Fan-made video to
promote the artists.)
Tym Stevens
Tags : WhatFour Beatles Who Mod Garage SwingingLondon Pandoras GoGos Bangles DressyBessy JacquelineTaieb AprilMarch ShonenKnif |
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Affichage : 16185
Durée : 128 s |
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