The French pioneer of electronic music celebrates 50 years of Oxygène with one London night at The O2 arena, on his Oxygene & Beyond tour.
Jean-Michel Jarre, the French composer whose 1976 album Oxygène took electronic music into charts worldwide, performs at The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Tuesday 19 October 2027.
Jarre studied harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris. He then worked with Pierre Schaeffer’s Groupe de Recherches Musicales, and in 1971 brought electronic music to the Paris Opera with the ballet AOR.
Oxygène sold around 12 million copies. In 1979 his concert at the Place de la Concorde drew a live audience of one million, the first of his Guinness world records.
His catalogue now runs to more than 20 studio albums and over 85 million sales. He played the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
London has followed him from the start. In 1988 he staged two concerts in the Docklands in poor weather, and 250,000 tickets sold. He played the Royal Albert Hall in 2008 and sold out The O2 on his first arena tour a year later.
The tour celebrates 50 years of Oxygène, whose anniversary edition BMG releases on 20 November 2026. This is the only London date in its 2027 programme.