Produced by RTF (Radiodiffusion Télévision Française) Paris France
director Guy Job
featuring The Who · The Small Faces · Booker T & the MGs · Pink Floyd · The Equals
The Variations · The Troggs · Joe Cocker · Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green

                  

Here is a magical 90 minutes, a New Year's Eve broadcast from RTF, a French television network, celebrating the arrival of 1969 with live appearances by some of the biggest names in popular music [including Pink Floyd, The Who, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac and many others]. This was an historic moment - the first New Year's Eve broadcast in the world - aimed squarely at a youth audience. Significantly, it was produced five years before the first Dick Clark Rockin' New Year's Eve in 1973.

The project [promoted as Suprise Partie] was directed by Guy Job, who had also co-produced a music-oriented series for Radiodiffusion Télévision Française with Serge Gainsbourg called Dim Dam Dom since 1965. This New Year's Eve production is a rare opportunity to see a cavalcade of musical supergroups, up-close and personal. All the performers are playing live [not lip-synced] in various studios and singing in English. Please note: There is an occasional RTF network logo dimly displayed in the upper right corner of the screen.

          

          

A French production in English language; 90 min, fullscreen,
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT