Rendez-Vous by Jean-Michel Jarre - Released: 1986

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Vinyl professionally cleaned - Clean Labels - Vinyl has minor sleeve rub otherwise plays great

Artist Profile - Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre, born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France, is a French composer of electronic music.
Son of [a=Maurice Jarre], a composer of film music, who has written the scores to such films as Lawrence Of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago, among many others. Father of [a=David Jarre].
He is well-known for staging spectacular outdoor concerts of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, and three of which appeared in the Guinness Book of Records for their large audiences.
One of his albums, Musique pour supermarchés had a print run on only a single copy, which was auctioned to raise money for French artists.
In 1986 he worked with NASA-Astronaut Ronald McNair was to play the saxophone part of Jarre's piece Rendez-Vous VI while in orbit on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was to have been the first piece of music recorded in space, for the album Rendez-Vous.
After the Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986, the piece was recorded with a different saxophonist, retitled Ron's piece and the album dedicated to the seven Challenger astronauts.
He is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and was married to [a=Charlotte Rampling] from 1978 to 1997.

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Artist Images

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Vinyl Record available in Nottingham

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Notes

Ron McNair's part played by Pierre Gossez.
The record is dedicated to Ron McNair and the six Astronauts who died aboard the Challenger Shuttle on 28th January, 1986.

Catalogue numbers:
POLH 27 – on sleeve and label
829 125-1 – on label in parentheses

Roland JX-8P incorrectly written as Roland JX BP in credits for track A1.

℗ 1986 Disques Dreyfus, Paris

Runout A-side variant 3 has "420" under the X's.

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Companies

Disques Dreyfus | Phonographic Copyright (p)
Disques Dreyfus | Copyright (c)
Intersong Music Ltd. | Published By
Polydor Ltd. | Marketed By
Polydor Ltd. | Distributed By
Croissy Studio | Recorded At
Croissy Studio | Mixed At
Sterling Sound | Mastered At
Sterling Sound | Lacquer Cut At
PRS Ltd. | Pressed By

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Credits

Michel Granger | Cover
Jack Skinner | Mastered By
Michel Geiss | Other [Artistic Contribution]
Paul Cox (5) | Photography By
Jean-Michel Jarre | Producer, Composed By, Sleeve Notes
Denis Vanzetto | Recorded By, Mixed By | A1 to A3, B2, B3

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Identifiers

Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 A // 1 ▽130 (Runout, A-side, stamped - variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 829 125 - 1A (Runout, A-side, hand etched - variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 B // 1 ▽130 (Runout, B-side, stamped - variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 829 125 - 1B (Runout, B-side, hand etched - variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 A // 2 ▽ XXXXXXXX 130 11 (Runout, A-side, stamped - variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 829 125 - 1A (Runout, A-side, hand etched - variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 B // 1 ▽130 11 (Runout, B-side, stamped - variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 829 125 - 1B (Runout, B-side, hand etched - variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 A // 1 ▽ XXXXXXXX 420 130 11 (Runout, A-side, stamped - variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: 829 125 - 1A (Runout, A-side, hand etched - variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 B // 1 ▽130 12 (Runout, B-side, stamped - variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: 829 125 - 1B (Runout, B-side, hand etched - variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 A // 1 ▽ XXXXXXXX 420 130 11 19 (Runout, A-side, stamped - variant 4)
Matrix / Runout: 829 125 - 1A (Runout, A-side, hand etched - variant 4)
Matrix / Runout: POLH 27 B // 1 ▽130 11 18 (Runout, B-side, stamped - variant 4)
Matrix / Runout: 829-125 - 1B (Runout, B-side, hand etched - variant 4)
Matrix / Runout: ▽130 (Lacquer cutting location)

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Barcodes

042282912510

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