Hector: The Chopin of Twist
When y é- y é exploded across France in the wake of the twist, it pretty much steamrollered everything in its path, including, ironically enough, the harder-edged rock 'n' roll that had originally been its inspiration. By mid-1963, both Les Chats Sauvages and Les Chaussettes Noires were without their original singers, Vince Taylor's career had gone into freefall and even Johnny Hallyday was being berated for following Elvis Presley's lead and "selling out to girls". But not everyone was willing to play the y é- y é game... Following time-honoured tradition (well, honoured for a year or two, anyway), Parisian rock 'n' rollers Hector et les M édiators made a name for themselves at leading teenage nightspot Le Golf Drouot with a stage act drawn directly from rough and tumble American rock 'n' roll - usually sung in heavily accented English. Although almost all of the leading French rockers had sung in their native language on record, out in