French singer-songwriter

Renaud Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (), known as Renaud (), born 11 May 1952, is a French singer, songwriter and actor. His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style. Several of his songs are popular classics in F ...

's second unnamed studio album is commonly known as ''Laisse béton'', although it is sometimes referred to as ''Place de ma mob'' after the wall inscription on the album cover. It was released in 1977 by

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. The title is

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for "laisse tomber" ("drop it, forget about it", lit. "let it fall").

Track listing

All songs were written by

Séchan except where noted.

Side one

# "Laisse béton" – 2:30 # "Le blues de la Porte d'Orléans" – 3:10 # "La chanson du loubard" (Muriel Huster, Renaud Séchan) – 2:35 # "Je suis une bande de jeunes" (Renaud Séchan, François Bernheim) – 3:00 # "Adieu Minette" – 3:48 # "Les charognards" – 4:22

Side two

# "Jojo le démago" – 2:26 # "Buffalo débile" – 2:19 # "La boum" – 3:00 # "Germaine" – 3:15 # "Mélusine" – 1:37 # "La bande à Lucien" – 2:52 Tracks 1 and 3 were included on the compilation ''The Meilleur of Renaud (75–85)''. Track 1 was also included on the CD ''Ma Compil''. Tracks 1, 4 and 5 were covered for the tribute album ''

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''.

Personnel

*Renaud – vocals, lead guitar *Alain Le Douarin – guitar *Patrice Caratini – double bass *Alain Labacci – guitar,

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*Joss Baselli –

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*Christian Lété – percussion *

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– harmonica ;Technical *Georges Blumenfeld - recording, mixing *David Séchan - photography

References

1977 albums Renaud albums Polydor Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub