Patrick Hernandez and Phil Barney, inseparable from the music of the 1980s, spoke about this decade, marked by tense current affairs. "The 1980s were anything but funny (...), for me, it was the oil shocks, unemployment which rose quite unbelievably...

It was a bit of a slump, and I think that the music we made at that time was a way of clinging to very happy things because the period was not,” he explained. Listen to the excerpt again. You can react at 01.80.39.21.