L'Aventurier (song)
"L'Aventurier" () is an Indochine (band), Indochine song on the album of the L'Aventurier (album), same name in 1982. It reached No 4 in the French music chart. Conception ''L'Aventurier'' evokes the world of Bob Morane, mentioning characters (, Miss Ylang-Ylang) and titles from his novels. It is also implicitly referred to other novels, such as '' La Couronne de Golconde '' ('' Crocodiles ''). In an interview with '' Figaro '', Nicola Sirkis recounted how he found the theme for this song, which he wrote in four hours. «At the time, we were in the middle of the trip Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo, the invincible heroes ... I went to search the library that I had brought back from Belgium, I found Bob Morane with incredible titles, which matched the music very well. So I stole all the titles of all the books that Henri Vernes had written, I moved them, relocated, to recompose a story. Indeed, the lyrics of the song relate to several titles of Bob Morane novels: ''La Vallée ...
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Indochine (band)
Indochine () is a French pop rock and New wave music, new wave band formed in Paris in 1981. They became very successful in the Francophonie, Europe and Latin America in the 1980s, with songs like "L'Aventurier" and "Canary Bay". Following the release of several critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, albums in the 1990s, the group returned to stardom with the release of ''Paradize'' in 2002. The band has sold over 13 million albums and singles. History 1980s Indochine (French for Indochina) was formed in 1981 by two Frenchmen in their early twenties, Nicola Sirkis and Dominique Nicolas, in Paris. They soon added Dimitri Bodiansky, the cousin of one of Nicola's friends. They gave their first concert at Le Rose Bonbon, a café in Paris on 29 September 1981. This brief performance on stage earned them their first contract with a record company. They recorded their first single in November 1981. It included two songs, "Dizzidence Politik" and "Françoise", but d ...
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