Destination Docklands was an event consisting of two concerts by musician Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

 on the Royal Victoria Dock

Royal Victoria Dock

The Royal Victoria Dock is the largest of three docks in the Royal Docks of east London, now part of the redeveloped Docklands.-History:...

s, Docklands, London

London

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 on Saturday, October 8 and Sunday, October 9, 1988, to coincide with the release of Jarre's new album Revolutions. The concerts were attended by 100,000 people and the October 8 show was broadcast on BBC Radio One.

Accompanied by heavy wind, rain and fireworks, the concert also featured The Shadows

The Shadows

The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...

 guitarist Hank Marvin

Hank Marvin

Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...

 who joined Jarre on the tracks "London Kid" and "Fourth Rendez-Vous". A live album and a VHS were released afterwards, in 1989.

Track listing for concert

Part 1: Industrial Revolution

- Industrial Revolution: Overture
- Industrial Revolution: Part 1*
- Industrial Revolution: Part 2*
- Industrial Revolution: Part 3*
- Équinoxe 5^
- Ethnicolor^

Part 2: Swinging Sixties

- Computer Weekend^
- Les Chants Magnétiques II / Magnetic Fields II
- Oxygène 4
- Équinoxe 7^
- London Kid (with Hank Marvin

Hank Marvin

Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...

)

Part 3: The Nineties

- Third Rendez-Vous / Laser Harp^
- Tokyo Kid^
- Revolutions*
- Souvenir de Chine / Souvenir of China^
- Second Rendez-Vous
- Fourth Rendez-Vous

Part 4: The Finale

- September
- The Emigrant

(* Indicates that the songs were on the official VHS release, but in trimmed formats, whereas ^ indicates the songs had been omitted from the official VHS, released in 1989)

Musicians

• Jean-Michel Jarre: Synthesizers
• Michel Geiss
  Michel Geiss
  Michel Geiss is a French sound-engineer, instrument designer and musician who was a long-time collaborator of Jean Michel Jarre.He has also collaborated with different famous French artists such as Marc Lavoine, Patrick Bruel or Laurent Voulzy....
  
  : Synthesizers
• Dominique Perrier: Synthesizers
• Francis Rimbert
  Francis Rimbert
  Francis Rimbert is a French musician and composer.- Biography :Francis Rimbert started playing classical piano when he was 5 years old. At the conservatory, he studied harmony, counterpoint, the fugue and orchestral leading...
  
  : Synthesizers
• Guy Delacroix: Bass
• Jo Hammer: Drums
• Dino Lumbroso: Percussions
• Sylvain Durand: Synthesizers
• Christine Durand: Soprano

• Hank Marvin
  Hank Marvin
  Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...
  
  : Guitar on London Kid and Fourth Rendez-Vous
• Mireille Pombo: Vocals on September
• Sori Bamba: Conductor of Mali Choir on September
• Kudsi Erguner: Turkish Flute on Revolutions
• Bruno Rossignol: Choir Conductor
• Xavier Bellenger: Ethnical Music Advisor
• Setsuko Yamada: Solo Dance Performance

External links

• Pictures of the Event