Rendez-Vous is an album of instrumental electronic music composed and produced by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in 1986 on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor. It sold some three million copies worldwide and remains Jarre's longest-running chart album in both the USA and UK, with a 20 week run in the U.S. and an impressive 38 week run in the UK. The last track on the album was supposed to have the saxophone part played in outer space by astron...
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Rendez-Vous is an album of instrumental electronic music composed and produced by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in 1986 on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor. It sold some three million copies worldwide and remains Jarre's longest-running chart album in both the USA and UK, with a 20 week run in the U.S. and an impressive 38 week run in the UK. The last track on the album was supposed to have the saxophone part played in outer space by astronaut Ron McNair, but on January 28, 1986 he and the entire Space Shuttle Challenger crew were killed 73 seconds after lift-off when the shuttle exploded. In memory, this piece was dedicated to him. On the album the saxophone part is played by saxophonist Pierre Gossez.
The album reached #9 in the UK charts and #52 in the US charts.
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