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Wow. What I never really understood is: how did those people finance the gear? OK, in '81 JMJ was already famous, and for the original Oxygene in '76 he probabl

by deng 10y ago

Wow. What I never really understood is: how did those people finance the gear? OK, in '81 JMJ was already famous, and for the original Oxygene in '76 he probably only had a fraction of the stuff you see in this video, but still: those machines were crazy expensive. Even one of them would have put most musicians in debt.

rusanu 10y ago
He is the son of Maurice Jarre [1], and I heard before how this helped him financially quite a bit. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Jarre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Jarre
- jacquesm 10y ago
  That says that Maurice moved to America leaving Jean-Michel with his mom when he was five years old.
  - rbanffy 10y ago
    Never underestimate the guilt of a distant divorced father.
emersonrsantos 10y ago
He was backed by French government after the launch of its first album. France, Italy, UK are places that values and market local culture very agressively since...who knows, centuries?
NTripleOne 10y ago
I like to think he gets a small cut every time a crane game plays the melody from Oxygene Pt. 4.