The song of the lifetime license

Our popular culture does not explicitly reject the idea of ​​a driving license, dependent on a periodic medical examination, but it invests the little pink card with an almost existential value…

When a lyricist writes, he doesn’t necessarily know that a line from his song will hit the news, seven years later. And so, in 2017, the duo Angle Mort and Clignotant sing “Permit permit, the project of a lifetime”.

And in 2024, you heard this week on France Info, the European Parliament rejected the proposal to establish a compulsory medical examination every 15 years. So the driving license remains a license for life – even if this license arrives late.

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

Blind Spot and Flashing, The license, 2017

Bach and Laverne, Ah, this driving license, 1932

Jo Bouillon and his orchestra, Driving license, 1936

Georgio, The raised fist, 2014

More Bifluorinated Song, At the wheel of Space, 2012

Sefyu, Am I my brother’s keeper, 2008

Renaud, La Tire in Dédé, 1980

Assault Section, Itinerary of an unemployed person, 2010

Suzanne Gabriello, My license in August, 1966

The Phlegmatic, At the driving school, 2016

Serge Christophe and Henri Debs, You stalled the engine my daughter, 1971

Maurice Biraud and Louis Velle in, Driving license by Jean Girault, 1973

Philip Clay, Driving license, 1973

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