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The huge Grands Boulevards bar closed its doors on Monday November 18, putting an end to a certain idea of America and rock in France. For the last of the ders, “Libé” went there.
This Monday, November 18, on the Grands Boulevards of Paris, it looks like an evening like any other at the Hard Rock Café. A few tourists are looking at the shop's t-shirts, there are no crowds in the room, the floor is empty, a molasses of nineties pop hits floats above the burgers. However, it is the last of the last for the Parisian brand in the 9th arrondissement. And the illustrious brand in short, which here closes the doors – with imposing golden handles in the shape of electric guitars – of its last establishment in France, after Marseille, Nice and Lyon. It was also the first, opened in 1991, in the heyday of bandanas and spitting amps.
No more loud music (originally, to encourage the crowds to vacate the tables as quickly as possible, which is no longer really necessary), no more TV screens playing the same old clips over and over, retracing the entire moribund gesture. rock'n'roll, from BB King to Guns N'Roses, and the food of steakhouse at a discount. Halfway between the harbor and the museum, that was the big idea: to leave with a branded t-shirt, to drink and eat among the relics. In Paris, among other things, a Frank Zappa suit jacket, the guitar
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