How electronic music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre formed an unlikely collaboration with Edward Snowden

Jean Michel Jarre and Edward Snowden might seem an unlikely duo, but the electronic music pioneer tells Ed Power why they were an ideal match

ON THE face of it, Jean Michel Jarre is an unlikely thorn in the side of the establishment. He is famous for his grandiose synth pop and even grander outdoor concerts, which have raised public spectacle into an art-form.

Some 120,000 saw him play at the pyramids of Giza on New Year’s Eve 1999, more than 1.5m attended his 1986 Rendezvous Houston performance, staged amid the skyscrapers of Texas’s financial capital. How strange, almost perverse, to imagine him as a subversive figure.