French advert in BEST Rock magazine  On 8th, 9th 10th July 1978 in Paris, there was the festival Le rock d'ici (meaning: homegrown rock) à l'Olympia. The Olympia, oldest concert hall in Paris, was founded in 1888. Up to 2,000 people capacity. Traditionally, a bulwark of the French chanson culture. Chanson culture in France was so strong that 24 years after the origin of rock ‘n’ roll in the USA, 16 years after the first  Beatles  single, in 1978, chansons sung in French still dominated the French charts. Unlike the UK, where there was a clear distance between established rock music and newly emerging punk, in France that distance was less, as ‘all rock was more less underground’ according to French punk band  Asphalt Jungle . Guilty Razors, one of the most exciting bands of the french punk era In France, punk arose comparatively early for the European continent. The world’s first punk festival was in Mont-de-Marsan in southern France (the  Damned ...