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The intro to the concert footage has cuts from TV news and interviews, shows the scale of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYio7l7B940
Was extra special as one songs was composed for and was intended to be performed live from the space station by one of the Challenger astronauts[1] who died a few months earlier.
I was a young kid here in Norway at the time, but I recall very well the concert being covered by news here. His music was on the radio as well, so he was definitely well known outside of France I'd say.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair#Music_in_space
NL was a good market for Jarre though, he was extremely popular here back then.
Epica Take 2 came out on Apple Music last week.
Tomita, Vangelis and Florian Schneider are all gone, we should cherish the ones that are left. Their music was pretty much the backdrop of my teenage years.
As for his present-day popularity among younger people, it isn't as high as that of, for example, Queen or Pink Floyd -- though I had a ride with a young Uber driver who was entranced with Les Chants Magnétiques that we heard playing on the car radio.
And as for me personally, I currently have three of his songs in my Spotify favorites.
As I recall it Jarre was a semi-god in Japan. He made incredible concert there and had a gigantic following. I think he was bigger in japan than in France.
Forgot about this game. I can't remember the actual game, but I found it very beautiful and intriguing. I think the music play a big part.
I can’t remember what it was called, but it was next to Leisure land/Footrot Flats theme park in Te Atatu. Laserforce maybe?
It was multi-level, filled with fog and Star Trek style doors that opened when you shot them, and Jean-Michel Jarre played as a constant soundtrack. It was truely magical for a space-and-sci-fi obsessed preteen.
My friends and I only went a couple of times before it turned into paintball, which wasn’t as much fun for 11yr olds!
Subsequently Rendez-vous was one of the first records I ever bought and played over and over again on weekend mornings when my parents were still in bed.
Fourth Rendez-Vous was my favourite.
I was introduced to him around 1987 with Oxygène and Équinoxe, and always loved his 1970s and 80s albums, though I agree that he went out of fashion pretty early. As far as I'm concerned, he probably peaked creatively with Zoolook (1984), and I haven't really cared since Waiting for Cousteau. His later work isn't exactly bad, it's just the exact same formula he's been following for 40+ years.
More recently in a lot of interviews of djs and producers in European EDM scene, they reported that they were inspired to start a music career by him.
Jarre was known of, but records weren't easily available. We would swap cassette tapes. That changed in the mid 80s.