Robb Johnson, singer-songwriter, concludes his in-depth appreciation of Johnny Hallyday with a passionate and powerful defence of that much-derided form: French popular music.... When Edith Piaf died, for two days the people of France filed past her coffin, which was... Read more →
Salut! Live's story of Vin Garbutt and the Cambridge Folk Festival has certainly captured attention. If you add the replies posted to this site, and the comments appearing elsewhere as a direct or indirect result of my efforts, the total... Read more →
The Cambridge Folk Festival is almost upon us again, with all its familiar aspects: Sold Out notices since the word go and, for those lucky enough to have tickets, prayers for fine weather and the usual, gloriously eclectic mix of... Read more →
Robb Johnson, exemplary writer of la chanson anglaise and something of an authority on the more established French variety, continues his appreciation of the France's best-known rock star Johnny Hallyday All Rock’n’Rollers face this inevitability: they get obviously older, they... Read more →
Picture: Roger Liptrot Even on a day when the temperamental, clanking old lift was working, the concierge would have struggled with the big carton newly arrived in Paris. Somewhere between south Yorkshire and the rue de Rivoli, the brown tape... Read more →
Salut! and its offshots, Salut Live! and Salut! Sunderland, have no special rule book about the separation of editorial and advertising. These site take a lot of time to maintain, and have no obvious source of proper income. They are,... Read more →
