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''Rendez-vous'' is an album of instrumental electronic music composed and produced by Jean Michel Jarre, and released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 1986. It is his fifth overall studio album. It sold some three million copies worldwide and remains Jarre's longest-running chart album in both the U.S. and UK, with a 20 week run in the U.S. and an impressive 38 week run in the UK. The last track on the album was originally scheduled to include a saxophone part recorded by astronaut Ron McNair on the Space Shuttle Challenger, making it the first piece of music to be recorded in outer space, but on 28 January 1986, 73 seconds after lift-off, the shuttle disintegrated and the entire Challenger crew were killed. The track was dedicated to McNair and the other astronauts on board Challenger. On the album the saxophone part is played by saxophonist Pierre Gossez. The album reached #9 in the UK charts and #52 in the U.S. charts.〔http://www.connollyco.com/discography/jeanmichel_jarre/rendezvous.html〕 The album was nominated for Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in 1987, although it didn't win the award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1987-235.html )〕 In April 1986, Jarre performed the large-scale outdoor concert ''Rendez-vous Houston'' in Houston, Texas, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Texas. The show attracted a then-world-record live audience of 1.3 million people. The concert was originally to have included a video projection of Ron McNair's performance, recorded in space. Jean Michel returned to the stage in October for another concert, the ''Rendez-Vous Lyon'', marking the Pope John Paul II visit to Jarre's hometown (Lyon). == Track listing == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rendez-Vous (Jean Michel Jarre album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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