The (old) song of the end of oil

After COP 28, one might believe that the end of the main fossil energy would be a question of foresight. But, for popular music, this is already a story dating back several decades.

It is necessarily refreshing to hear such a lovely reverie from the Jacques Brothers, in 1975, precisely when the question of the end of oil was explicitly being raised – and we spoke to you about it daily on France Info, throughout the COP 28, which ended this week with an ambiguous agreement regarding the exit from fossil fuels.

And we inevitably begin to measure the progress made since, in the 1970s, the rise in prices caused a sort of dizziness regarding the need, willingly or unwillingly, to put an end to oil. A song by Johnny Hallyday, in 1978, seems to fail to envisage an alternative.

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

The Jacques Brothers, No more oil, 1975

Johnny Hallyday, Oil, 1978

Advertisement, “In France, we have no oil”…, 1976

Michel Sardou, They have the oil but that’s all, 1979

Peevox Orchestra, Elf Gabon, 1982

Rockin’ Squat, We don’t have oil, 2010

Juliette Gréco, Song of Margaret, 1954

André Dassary, It’s Shell that I love, 1961

Michel Magne, Anne Germain, Oil Pop (BOF I want some money), 1973

The Jacques Brothers, No more oil, 1975

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