Phoenix rising in the US

They may hail from Versailles but a love of American popular culture has propelled Phoenix to the brink of a very unfrench transatlantic breakthrough, writes Andrew PurcellGrowing up in Versailles, an affluent suburb of Paris, the four boys who would eventually form Phoenix bonded over their love of American pop culture. They adored the movie Risky Business They heard Kenny Rogers on the radio and thought he was cool. They had no interest in French music at all, and instead swapped cassettes of ...

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