Portal:Houston/Music, Arts & Culture/September 2007

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Rendez-vous Houston was a concert performed by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the skyscrapers of downtown Houston on the evening of April 5, 1986. For a period of time, it held a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest outdoor "rock concert" in history, with figures varying from 1 to 1.5 million in attendance. Rendez-vous Houston is remembered for being the concert which celebrated the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which had happened only three and a half months beforehand. One of Jarre's friends, astronaut Ron McNair, was supposed to play the saxophone from space; his substitute for the concert was Houston native Kirk Whalum.