We have known it for a long time: the air in the Paris metro is more polluted than the air outside the largest French city. We told you this week on France Info about a study by the National Health Security Agency, but the singer Sarthel was already claiming it in The Martyrs of the Metro, song which did not incriminate the fine particles but quite another pollution.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Sartel, The Metro Martyrs1932
George Tabet, To get to my office1945
You have the ticket Chic ticket, shock ticket1982
Yves Montand, Subway1949
Pierre Rapsat, The Subway Bats1977
Fabe, It’s part of my past1995
Supreme NTM, Paris under the bombs1995
The Army of 12, Exquisite Corpse2002
Henry Tachan, In first class carriages1965
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.