Incorrect: Daft Punk Will Not Be Performing at the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics

While the opening and closing events of the Olympics frequently draw out the most significant music celebrities of the Games’ host nation, Daft Punk will certainly not be amongst the French musicians carrying out at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Yesterday, French electrical outlet Le Parisien released a story stating that the duo had actually been gotten in touch with concerning obtaining associated with the Games’ opening up event, which conversations with both had actually started numerous months back.

This tale points out a France Inter discussion with Thomas Jolly, the creative supervisor of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It in, Jolly claimed, “It would be very happy for them to be in this ceremony. We cannot not think of Daft Punk when we think at an international exhibition in France.” But later on in the meeting, he specified with a laugh that “I lied a little about Daft Punk.”

But as a matter of fact, a Daft Punk Olympics efficiency is not to be, as an agent for the duo validated to Billboard today (Oct. 25), that “this is just a rumor and not factual.”

Tres unfortunate, to make sure, however there is brand-new Daft Punk product coming up. On Nov. 17, the duo — that formally separated in 2021 — will release a “drumless” version of their 2013 cd Random Access Memories as component of the cd’s 10-year wedding anniversary party. As the idea shows, this brand-new variation will certainly include the initial cd, removed of its percussion.

The 10-year wedding anniversary has actually additionally consisted of a meeting collection, Memory Tapes, with cd partners consisting of Julian Casablancas, Nile Rodgers and Pharrell.

The Paris Olympics, on the other hand, happen following summertime, from July 26 to Aug. 11, 2024.

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