The garbage collection strike in Paris has sparked a lively political controversy that reminds us that artists often express their gratitude to garbage collectors.
Jacques Duvall sings The Garbagemen’s Strike, and this song is already twelve years old. Because, if the Parisian garbage collectors’ strike has turned into a political confrontation in recent days, it is nonetheless an almost classic event. And, each time the garbage collectors are on strike, in the capital or elsewhere, we realize the vital need for the city to be rid of its waste, a need which is, in normal times, met, almost without us being aware of it. realize it.
Moreover, when we talk about Paris at dawn, we ritually evoke the garbage collectors and sweepers who clean the city. From 1968 to 2010, Jacques Dutronc, Pierre Perret, Sexion d’Assaut.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news, airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Jacques Duval, The Garbagemen’s Strike2011
Jacques Dutronc, It’s five o’clock, Paris is waking up1968
Pierre Perret, This is how we live in Paris1986
assault sex, Panama get up2010
Mafia K’1 Fry, For those2003
Pierre Perret, Lily1978
Bigflo et Oli feat. MC Solar, good students2022
Pigalle, The Garbage Collector1987
Antonio Placer, The Garbage Collector2011
Donzella (feat. Henri Salvador), The Garbage Collector of Saint-Tropez2006
Jacques Duval, The Garbagemen’s Strike2011
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