French singer-songwriter

Renaud Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (; born 11 May 1952 in Paris), known as Renaud, is a French singer-songwriter. With twenty-six albums to his credit, selling nearly twenty million copies, he is one of France's most popular singers. Several of h ...

'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"), from the first song on the album.

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

References

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