Richard Williams on France's brilliant early-60s pop radio

A love letter from a girlfriend holidaying in France in 1963 turned Richard Williams on to Salut les Copains, the radio station that taught him more about pop than anything at homeIt's the summer of 1963, and letters are exchanged with a girl who is on holiday with her parents at a campsite on the Côte d'Azur. We're both 16, a good age to be discovering stuff. She writes, in letters smeared with Ambre Solaire and smelling faintly of Disque Bleu cigarettes, about listening to French radio and h...

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