Oxygène: New Master Recording
In August 2007 Jarre signed for EMI France. He released an anniversary package containing a special live recording of his classic work, Oxygène, in 3D DVD, live CD and normal 2D DVD formats in November 2007, named Oxygène: New Master Recording. A first for Jarre, the album was recorded live, without tape or hard disk playback, with help from Francis Rimbert, Claude Samard, and Dominique Perrier. The album also contains three extra tracks not found on either the original or remake, which form links between the main movements. Jarre plans to integrate the original analog synthesizers from Oxygène into his next album, and is building a new private recording studio on the outskirts of Paris. In the same year Disques Dreyfus released The Complete Oxygène, containing the original versions of Oxygène and Oxygène 7–13, and remixes of tracks from Oxygène 7–13.
...there are several Eminent String Machines that make up one of the main Oxygene string sounds. Having four of us meant I had to multiply the number of instruments, and finding the equipment was quite a headache, especially as I tried, as much as I could, to avoid using instruments produced after Oxygène. There are one or two exceptions but 95 percent of the instruments are of that time. For me it was really important for the radicalism of the process.
—Jean Michel Jarre,
Jarre performed 10 concerts (Oxygène Live) in Paris, from 12–26 December 2007. The concerts took place inside the Théâtre Marigny, a small 1000 seat theatre in the Champs-Élysées. Later in 2008 Jarre performed several concerts to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oxygène, in theatres in Europe. Following one such performance at the Royal Albert Hall Jarre met Brian May, who proposed he create a concert in Tenerife for the International Year of Astronomy. A lack of sponsorship meant that the concert did not take place.
In 2009 he was selected as the artistic director of the World Sky Race, and also accepted a role as Goodwill Ambassador for the International Year of Astronomy. In 2009 he started an indoor tour in arenas throughout Europe.
2010
On 1 March 2010, Jean Michel Jarre started the second leg of his 2009–2010 indoors tour, and on 10 June he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo Magazine
Personal life
Jarre met his second wife Charlotte Rampling at a dinner party in St Tropez in 1976.
I knew who she was because I had admired her films — The Night Porter, The Damned — and I was immediately struck by Charlotte's stillness and her remote quality. I remember thinking she seemed less sophisticated than she was on the screen. She didn't say very much, I learnt very early on that Charlotte is not a chatterbox.
—Jean Michel Jarre,
Michel was magnetic. Having just flown in from Los Angeles I was tired, rather silent and didn't pick up on the intensity of what I felt until three days later. I went to Paris the next day to promote Farewell My Lovely. I must have mentioned where I was staying to Jean-Michel because he phoned me and we met, and that's when it all started. A long weekend at the Lancaster — still my favourite hotel.
Charlotte Rampling,
Both were already in failing marriages, but they each obtained a divorce (Rampling was married to Bryan Southcombe). The two married, Jarre gaining custody of his daughter Émilie Charlotte,and Rampling her son Barnaby. Together they have a son, David. In 1995 photographs in Hello! showed Jarre apparently romantically involved with 31-year old secretary Odile Froument, and in 1996 Jarre and Rampling separated. They divorced in 2002. He had a brief relationship with Isabelle Adjani, but married French actress Anne Parillaud in May 2005. Jarre has a half-brother and a half-sister from his father's other marriages, Kevin Jarre and Stéphanie Jarre, and remained estranged from his father. On his father's death in 2009, however, Jarre paid tribute to his legacy.
My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime. When you are able, at my age, to count the times you have seen your father, it says something...I think it's better to have conflict, or, if you have a parent who dies, you grieve, but the feeling of absence is very difficult to fill, and it took me a while to absorb that.
Jean Michel Jarre.
Awards and recognition
• 1976 - Grand Prix du Disque by L'Académie Charles Cros, for Oxygène[8]
• 1976 - "Personality of The Year" by People magazine (U.S.)[8][88]
• 1978 - Midem award
• 1979 - Guinness Book of Records entry for the biggest concert ever (La Concorde
• 1981 - Honorary member of the Beijing Conservatory of Music.
• 1984 - Grand Prix du Disque by L'Académie Charles Cros, for Zoolook.
• 1985 - Instrumental album of the year, at the Victoires de la Musique in France, for Zoolook
• 1986 - Instrumental album of the year, at the Victoires de la Musique, for Rendez-vous
• 1986 - Musical spectacle of the year, at the Victoires de la Musique, for the Rendez-Vous Houston concert
• 1987 - New Guinness Book of Records entry for the biggest concert ever (Rendez-Vous Houston)
• 1987 - "European musician Person of the Year" by People magazine • 1990 - New Guinness Book of Records entry for the biggest concert ever (Paris La Defense: A City in Concert)
• 1993 - UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
• 1994 - Victoire de la Musique for Chronologie.
• 1995 - Awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur from the French Government
• 1997 - New Guinness Book of Records entry for the biggest concert ever with 3.5 million watching at Moscow's 850th anniversary
• 1998 - IFPI's Platinum Europe Award
• 2005 - HCA Ambassador for the Hans Christian Andersen 2005 Bicentenary Festival
• 2006 - Polish Television Academy's "Super Wiktor" award for "Space of Freedom"
• 2006 - Gdańsk's Man Of The Year 2005 Award
• 2007 - Eska Music Awards Special Award
• 2008 - Doctor Honoris Causa by the Mendeleev Russian University of Chemistry and Technology
• 2010 - MOJO Lifetime Achievement Award.
An asteroid, 4422 Jarre, has been named in his honour.
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