History Trivia / JeanMichelJarre

** He can play the guitar. In the late 60s, his role model was mostly Hank Marvin of The Shadows (little did he know that both the band and Marvin as a soloist would later cover his own big hits, or that he'd even collab with Marvin). There's even a French film, ''Des garçons et des filles'', in which Jarre can be seen playing with his band--and singing. Almost half a century later, during the ''Electronica'' tour, he brought the guitar back, but this time heavily distorted.

** As of January 2011, this is HilariousInHindsight.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes

** ''Oxygène – New Master Recording'' also came along with a video disk containing the ''Oxygène – Live In Your Living-Room'' performance recording.

* OldShame: After ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' was released, Jarre acted as if he hadn't made anything prior to it. In fact, his use of pseudonyms for some of his works (Jamie Jefferson, Pop Corn Orchestra, Foggy Joe Band, 1906) indicates that they were going to be Old Shames right away. Jarre didn't re-release anything he had made before ''Oxygène'' until 2011, and even the ''Les Granges Brûlées'' CD was released by Francis Dreyfus so that he could cash in on die-hard fans with not enough money to acquire the bootleg LP, let alone the original.

** Jarre's first two albums, ''Deserted Palace'' and the soundtrack to ''The Burned Barns'', went out of print by the time ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' released and were never reissued for decades. Jarre himself chose to ignore the existence of both records, instead treating ''Oxygène'' as his true debut album. Dreyfus Records would eventually reissues ''The Burned Barns'' on CD in 2003, but ''Deserted Palace'' remains AWOL.

* BuryYourArt: Enforced as an artistic decision. Jarre printed just one copy of ''Music for Supermarkets'' and auctioned it off before destroying the master tapes and pressing plates, intending to treat the album like a work of fine art (as it was based around music Jarre composed for an art exhibit). Keeping in line with this intention, Jarre refuses to re-release the original album apart from reusing the multitrack recordings in other songs and including a demo version of "Music for Supermarkets Part I" on the GreatestHitsAlbum ''Planet Jarre'', instead [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes encouraging the circulation of pirate copies]] sourced from a single radio broadcast in 1983.

** Jarre was approached by Mick Jagger after his 1979 debut concert in Paris and asked if he could play the keys on Music/TheRollingStones' next album, ''Music/EmotionalRescue''. Jarre turned the offer down, but would eventually provide synth parts for another British rock band: Music/{{Gorillaz}} (as a session musician on ''Music/{{Humanz}}'').

** He played not exactly a small part in the French music of TheSeventies. He composed songs and wrote lyrics for even more, catering to artists like Christophe (whose big and often-covered hit "Les mots bleus" got lyrics from Jarre), Françoise Hardy, Patrick Juvet or Gérard Lenorman. He sometimes even produced albums for them.