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The groundbreaking China Concerts, 30 years on
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:44 pm
by tinmachine
Today is the 30th anniversary of JMJ's opening concert in Beijing for The Concerts In China.
Still don't really know the set-list(s)!
What I'd give for a remastered dvd/blu ray of this
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:53 pm
by shadow
What I'd give for more information and real footage of the concert, rather then weird footage of China... To bad, my fav live album also
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:52 pm
by jarresantiago
For those who want to see and ear the concert in 5.1 sound....
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 1:35 pm
by jarrepaul
How much GBP.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:53 pm
by jarresantiago
answered via private mail
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:01 pm
by melo
Ok, I not open another topic about China/81, I will use this old topic.
D&AD Silver Award - 1983
D&AD's design awards have enthralled the industry for over half a century. In the third in our series of articles, R/GA's George Prest looks back at some of the winners from the '80s.
Design and Art Direction (D&AD) was founded in 1962 by a group of London-based designers and art directors including David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes (who designed the original D&AD logo). The group was dedicated to celebrating creative communication, rewarding its practitioners, and raising standards across the industry.
Today D&AD has evolved into a major global organisation that exists to promote excellence in design and advertising everywhere through educational programmes and rewarding great work through its annual Yellow Pencil awards. Here D&AD's George Prest (above) recalls some of the most memorable winners in the 1980s...
Maggie, the Falklands war, Afghanistan, Rent-a-Ghost, my mum getting a Mini Metro, Lockerbie, Airwolf, the massive storm, the bombing of Libya, Northern Ireland, Chernobyl, playing Revs on a BBC Micro, Acid House music, drainpipe jeans, Reebok Silver Shadows, skateboarding, Chariots of Fire and Ronald Reagan.
This is some of what I remember of the 1980s, in no particular order and unsure of the significance of any of it. To look at the D&AD winning work from that decade is a kaleidoscopic experience as well. There’s humour and attitude, tradition and change and the conventional and the downright bizarre. I think that the industry looks back at this time as a golden age. Let’s examine the evidence to see if this is a rose-tinted approach.
05. Jean-Michel Jarre 'China Promotion'
So the 1980s were an outstanding decade, classic, peerless and the true foundation of advertising as we know it today? Well, yes but check out this promo for Jean Michel Jarre’s China tour. In contrast to everything above it seems dated and rooted in its time. So '80s, a bit off-beam and culturally naïve, like JMJ himself. This would probably go down well in Dalston today, I think, until the next fad came along.
Year: 1983
Award: D&AD Silver Award for the most outstanding Record Promotion
Client: Francis Dreyfus Music
Art Director: Kate Hepburn
Copywriter: Jean-Michel Jarre
Photographer: Mark Fisher
Illustrator: Kate Hepburn
Typographer: Kate Hepburn
Advertising Manager: Mark Fisher
Words: George Prest
George Prest is executive creative director at R/GA London and a member of the Board of Trustees at D&AD.
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 7:53 pm
by jeanbatman
melo wrote:Ok, I not open another topic about China/81, I will use this old topic.
D&AD Silver Award - 1983
D&AD's design awards have enthralled the industry for over half a century. In the third in our series of articles, R/GA's George Prest looks back at some of the winners from the '80s.
Good share… I initially thought it was for Music for Supermarkets, based upon the year of the reward…
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:15 pm
by Robi
It hurts to read but I get a different point of view I haven't known about the great Jarre.
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:45 pm
by Finaero
It's one thing to dislike someone's music ( some do it with more tact than Norwegian comedians, though
) but to actually sabotage them for that reason? Ah, journalists.
(Even though that's the first time any "technical glitches" during the Zermatt playback-fest have been brought up)
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:34 pm
by Dr_Jones
Wow, that's a pretty vile review. He's probably one of those Bob Dylan-generation journalists.
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:37 pm
by jeanbatman
Only owe to the respect for the great artist that was Roger Rizzitelli, I will not comment on this, made most of stupidity and hate…
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:59 am
by Jakob BC
True or not true... I don't care that much. Still the cultural differences would perhaps make it difficult to Jarre's china tour concept.
I have decided that I will never listen to reviews of music. It's like making a review of mona lisa... some a facinated enough to spend their Whole life breaking codes about it. Others like it because it's famous, others maybe hate it while others simply don't care about it. It's indiscussable.
We have a famous music journalist here in Denmark... he is mostly famous for shooting Down 99 of 100 music reviews that he makes. Of course he has stamped on music I liked, while he has praised music I really dislike. He's just famous for being an ass, and it makes him occupied/earning for a living for whatever magazine as long as he continues his path.
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 9:54 pm
by jarrepaul
Not bothered about some daft arse that has a grudge. Concerts in China is some of Jarre's best music in my opinion.
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:57 am
by GlennFolkvord
How much is actual fact and how much is Yan's interpretation, misunderstanding or lie we will never know. All we know that he hates Jarre's music and he sometimes doesnt even know what it means to be a journalist and critic.
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:22 am
by qube
It's probably true-ish but regardless it's IMO one of his best albums and certainly the best live one. I think it's wonderful but wouldn't have surprised me if it had been too 'out there' for the audience to really understand.