RPM, an imprint of Cherry Red Group, has recently issued a number of sets exploring the world of sixties French pop. Now the label has recently turned to the heavier side, with Vive Le Rock and Roll, a 22-track anthology dedicated to the country’s rock-and-roll scene. As detailed in Kieron Tyler’s extensive liner notes to this collection subtitled The Unruly World of French Rock and Roll 1956-1962, France didn’t cotton to the rough-and-tumble genre immediately. Bill Haley and the Comets took the U.S. by storm in 1954 and 1955, with Elvis Presley…
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