I also suspect that Jean-Michel Jarre never made a cover of Popcorn. Despite Jarre's pop status, he's an original composer, not a cover artist. His father Maur

I also suspect that Jean-Michel Jarre never made a cover of Popcorn. Despite Jarre's pop status, he's an original composer, not a cover artist. His father Maurice Jarre was a composer who wrote the score to the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", so he grew up in a privileged cultural milieu. J-M Jarre has discussed the impact that Stravinsky's Rite of Spring had on his art. Making a Popcorn cover just seems completely out of character. I suspect the misattribution happened early in the MP3 era, around 1996-99, because I vaguely recall seeing Popcorn drifting on Napster as a J-M Jarre title... Jarre was quite popular among the early adopters who traded MP3s back then, so I'm guessing anything "early synth pop" got assigned to him. (I still regularly listen to Jarre's "Zoolook" album from 1984. Brilliant use of the legendary Fairlight sampler-synthesizer.)