Some songs for the toll

“In front of the toll motorway we will be done, it’s a vulture that will give the tickets”, sings Johnny Hallyday. In this 1982 title, We’ll give you some rockit evokes a kind of wild team that gives birth to brutal and angry music.

But this week, we told you about it on France Info, it was the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, who was exceptionally frank in admitting that the State had made a mistake in privatizing motorways, and that the profits of the concession companies are too high. As if we didn’t know that the tolls were too expensive; and the acknowledgment of this error by the State does little to console the current feeling of being trapped, when one arrives at the tollbooth.

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

• Johnny Hallyday, We’ll give you some rock1982
• Nekfeu, Vinyl, 2016
• Kery James, Scum2016
• Sadek, Little Prince2017
• Jul, At the toll2019
• Wildcat, Letter to Zoe2014
• Fred Merpol, Along the A1 motorway1999
• Vincent DelermA time for everything2008
• Vincent DelermCharlotte Carrington, 2002
• Hubert-Felix Thiéfaine, Lorelei Sebasto Cha1982
• Clarika, Nothing goes1996
• Vincent Delarm, A time for everything2008

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