Vince Taylor Concert
Source-supported accounts describe disorder and riot damage at the Palais des Sports during the 18 November 1961 rock festival associated with Vince Taylor. Contemporary reporting says disorder broke out after the intermission, around 2,000 seats were broken, 14 police officers and several young people were injured, and Vince Taylor’s second recital was cancelled by order of the police prefecture.
Incident Overview
What Happened
Date: 18 November 1961.
Location: Palais des Sports / Palais des Sports de Paris, Paris, France, with venue location support placing it at Porte de Versailles in the 15th arrondissement.
Incident name: Vince Taylor Concert. Sources also place it within the Troisième festival international de Rock / third international rock festival at the Palais des Sports.
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Source-supported accounts describe disorder and riot damage at the Palais des Sports during the 18 November 1961 rock festival associated with Vince Taylor.
Le Monde reported that disorder broke out after the intermission, that water pipes were used as clubs, around 2,000 seats were broken, and that Vince Taylor’s second recital was cancelled by order of the police prefecture.
Later academic and retrospective sources say the hall was devastated before Vince Taylor, billed as the star, could perform. In short: chaos, smashed seats, and a gig sliding off the rails.
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The biggest clashes in the source set are about arrests and whether Vince Taylor actually performed before the event fully blew apart.
The figures surfaced in the source pack do not clearly refer to the same event.
States that 12 young people were apprehended after the recent rock-and-roll exhibition at the Palais des Sports de Paris, but it does not name Vince Taylor.
Says 50 teenagers were arrested at the so-called First World Festival of Rock and Roll at the Palais des Sports in Paris, which appears to refer to an earlier event.
These figures should not be merged. They do not clearly describe the same incident.
The contemporary and later accounts are not perfectly aligned.
Reports that Vince Taylor’s second recital was cancelled by order of the police prefecture, which implies that at least one scheduled recital existed before cancellation.
Say the hall was devastated before Vince Taylor, billed as the star, could go on stage.
The reviewed material supports the disagreement itself more firmly than either side of it.
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These points were not firmly established in the supplied research.
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