As a side note. I think Le Parc marks the point where Jive Electro realised that TD weren't selling as many records as they did under Virgin in 74/75 (slightly shortsighted of them...but they were a young label so perhaps they thought of success as top 10 or nothing). They then promptly did exactly what Virgin had done at the end of TD's contract: ie get the band to record an album and then promote it so poorly that fans had to rely on spotting the new album in their local record shop, otherwise they had no idea the was a new album out at all. You can read into that whatever you want. There were some complaints about Le Parc from fans in the press. Graham High's
'Le Strop' letter in the December 1985 of E&MM springs to mind (apologies to Graham if he reads this). Although this prompted a bit of activity, both pro (
"Dreamers Defended") and anti TD (
"Dreamers Attacked") in response (again in E&MM's march issue of the following year). Even when the magazine covered TD's 1986 Paris Olympia gig, describing them as
'still the world's greatest electronic band'...they had to put a label on the front cover (again featuring TD) with the headline
'Is there room for this band in 1986'? Some things never change it seems. Build 'em up, knock 'em down