''Best (music magazine)'' was a prominent French popular music magazine founded in 1968 by Jacques Morlain and Gérard Bernar. It was published in

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and their building was located rue d’Antin (road Antin). Editor in chief were Jacques Morlain, Gérard Bernar, Sacha Reins, Christian Lebrun, Francis Dordor, Jean Pierre Sabouret and Christophe Geoffette. In the 1970s, the magazine became highly successful with more than 100,000 issues sold a month. Christian Lebrun was then the editor-in-Chief. When the magazine embraced the New Wave music with acts such as

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, The Stray Cats,

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, Devo in the late 1970s, they managed to sell 185,000 issues a month.

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External links

History of French music Press

the Best albums according to ''Best''

''Best'' (collection 1969 - 1998)
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