53 years of “Earth Days”, 53 years of green songs

We can’t say we didn’t know, since even Johnny Hallyday spoke about it in his songs – in this case, a title written by Jacques Lanzmann, and published in 1970. And, in this same year 1970, on April 22 , was held on the first Earth Day, created by US Senator Gaylord Nelson and which has since been celebrated every year around the world to mobilize around environmental issues. Because, already, at the time, we knew the possible solutions.

In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

• Johnny Hallyday, Pollution, 1970
• Companions of the Song, L‘Man who remembers, 1970
• Dick Rivers, L‘Man who remembers, 1971
• Joe Dassin, The Large Parking Lot1970
• Nolwenn Leroy, sixth continent2013
• The Fatal Picards, 20,000 leagues under polymers, 2019
• Charles Trenet, The Ecologistnineteen eighty one
• Christopher Mali, We do not care2006

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