Legion 88
| Legion 88 | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Right skirt |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 1993 |
| Last occupation | |
| Alain Pérez | |
| Jean | |
guitar |
Dominique Laffont |
| Fred Wartner | |
| Vico | |
| former members | |
singing |
Jean-Christophe M. (Géno) |
Légion 88 was a French right-wing rock band from Paris that originally came from Essonne . It existed from 1984 to around 1993. It was one of the best-known right-wing extremist skinhead groups of its time and still shapes the right-wing rock scene in France today.
Band history
The band name Légion 88 refers both to the well-known abbreviation “88” = eighth letter of the alphabet = “HH” for “ Heil Hitler ” and to the speed with which the Foreign Legion marches.
The band was formed in August 1984 and released an album and several singles on the Rebelles Européens label . Jean-Christophe M. alias Géno, the first singer of the group was arrested in 1986 because he was involved in a raid on a party venue of the Parti communiste français in Livry-Gargan . A short time later he drowned in the Loire . He was replaced by Alain Pérez.
A tribute album was released for the group on the independent label Street Fighting Records . Alain Pérez left Légion 88 and then played in the bands Short Cut and Tribal Zone.
ideology
Légion 88 were neo - Nazi oriented. In songs they demanded freedom for Rudolf Hess or used German refrains such as “Ein Volk - Ein Reich - Ein Führer”. Fred Wartner (bass) and Dominique Laffont (guitar) belonged to the Parti nationaliste français et européen (PNFE) for some time .
Discography
Albums
- 1988: Thulé ( Rebelles Européens )
Singles / EPs
- 1987: Terroristes (Rebelles Européens)
- 1991: Legion Blanche (Rebelles Européens)
- 1999: Live (Split-7 '' with Open Season, White League)
Compilations
- 1987: Debout! Vol. 1 (sampler with bunker 84 and skin corps)
- 1998: The Best of (Charlemagne Records)
- 2000: 1984–1987 (bootleg)
- 2009: Legion Francaise (Septentrion)
- 2010: Icebreaker 1985 (LP, When Typhoid Courtney Drops)
Tribute album
- 2006: Tribute to Legion 88 (2CD, Street Fighting Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jacques Leclercq: Dictionnaire de la mouvance droitiste et nationale, de 1945 à nos jours . L'Harmattan, 2008, ISBN 978-2-296-06476-8 , pp. 178 .
- ↑ Benoît Marin-Curtoud: Planète skin: les groupuscules neo-nazis face à leurs crimes . 2001, ISBN 978-2-296-14717-1 , pp. 79 .
- ↑ a b Leclercq 2008, p. 515
- ↑ Rock Haine Roll. Origines, histoires et acteurs du Rock Identitaire Français, une tentative de contre-culture d'extrême droite , May 2004, Collectif, Éditions No Pasaran, p.43
- ↑ Right- wing bands on the German market ... and their evaluation . In: Dieter Baacke , Michaela Thier, Christian Grüninger, Frank Lindemann (eds.): Rock von Rechts . Society for Media Education and Communication Culture , Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-929685-05-1 , p. 107 (media pedagogical handout 3).