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29 Oct 2025 · Beirut
NTS Guide to: '60s Lebanese Beat, Garage Rock, and Yé Yé
Travelling back to Beirut in the late 60s and early 70s for an hour of obscurities from the city's underground guitar band scene. Influenced by US and Western garage rock, beat and yé ye acts, Lebanese groups like The Cedars and The News blended these international sounds with local rhythms, and sang English lyrics with an Arabic slant.
Many of these records are difficult to find, being recorded cheaply and in minuscule runs in the era immediately preceding Lebanon's descent into a 15-year long civil war.
Selected by NTS resident Ernesto Chahoud.
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Tracklist
- Claude HaddadArabesque
- Marcel EsséliDabqué Mon Amour
- RindaUn Sourire S'Il Vous Plait
- Patrick SamsonGuitare Et Bongos = Guitars And Bongos
- BernardSuzy
- Tony ValiereOn Est Deux, On Est Heureux
- ManuelNon, Je Veux Retourner
- Elias RahbaniI'm Falcon And You
- Don ReedI Am The One
- Ray PsyI Love You
- The NewsTake Me
- AbdallahWild Hawk
- Abi SibliniHey J
- Something DifferentChemical Reaction
- The Kool KatsStep Out
- The Sea-dersThanks A Lot
- Menelik YerevanMoi Je T’aime Bien
- Simon C. Edwards & His Soul SetI Got You
- Rainbow BridgeFree Of Changes
- TONY FRANKS AND THE HIPPIN SOULLOOSE ME QUICK
- I NOTTURNII Notturni