After leaving Tai Phong, 's solo career gradually took off between 1981 and the release of , the best-selling French recording of 1986. He followed it with in 1987, which sold even better. Part of this has to do with the ubiquitous presence of on French radio and , but the rest is the sound on the recording, which balances rock dynamics with very stylized '80s production: glossy keyboards, heavily treated guitars, drum machines and programs, etc. And then there are the hooks, as evidenced in the first single "La Bas." ~ Thom Jurek