Rue Drouot, Paris 1957. Henri Leproux installs a jukebox in his tearoom. Before long the Golf Drouot is on the lips of every Parisian rock’n’roll fan, turning it into a fully-fledged club four years later. Les Grands Boulevards de Paris, the neighbourhood that FURSAC calls home and that Marcel Proust relied on for distraction, was suddenly the center of Parisian nightlife. People flocked “au Golf” to watch Dutronc, Hallyday, The Who or rub shoulders with Mick Jagger. Paris’s first rock’n’roll DJ, Dominique Guillochon, would play all the latest records from the Beatles to Otis Redding. But by the late ‘70s, disco was everywhere, and The Palace soon took over as the place to be.
