On July 3, 1980, under a beautiful early summer sun, 50,000 people converged on Le Bourget to attend the concert given by Bob Marley on a field near the Ile-de-France airport.
Where, a month earlier, John Paul II celebrated a mass, on the occasion of his first visit to France as pope.
Never has a single concert brought together so many people in France.
As a result, access to the site is complicated.
It takes a good two hours to get there from Paris.
And, once there, wait again to get through the numerous security barriers.
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This is the price of the privilege of seeing on stage someone who has become, in just a few years, a global star and a cultural phenomenon mixing music and religion, hedonism and spirituality.
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