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Famous Songs of Le Tour de France: Which One Do You Like the Most?

Here are some of our favourite tunes to get you in the mood for Le Tour 2017!

Tour de France by Kraftwerk

The symbiosis of techno and road-cycling may never be fully understood, but there are some obvious common themes – both require endurance, focus, a love of repetition, and an almost fetishistic reverence of the machinery that leads you to a transcendental plateau.

Released in 1984 by electronic super-group Kraftwerk, the song used state-of-the-art digital sound samplers to record vocal panting and chain noises. Anyone who’s exerted themselves on the bike can instantly identify the quintessential sound of the cycle ride. It doesn’t get more iconic that this.

Bicycle Song by Queen

The most iconic song on this list, Freddie Mercury’s love song to the bicycle and everything it represents – freedom, rebellion, and therapy. In a true rock’n’roll fashion, Freddie tells his audience he likes to ride his bike where he likes.

Inspired by Le Tour de France, the video infamously features some of the sexiest machinery any cycle fan could lay eyes on – Campagnola groupsets, Gitane steel framed and lug-welded frames. Beautiful. That is why Škoda is using this song to evoke all the joys of cycling in the video below.

Walking Indurain by Fred Poulet

Miguel Indurain won five Tour de France Yellow Jerseys in a row between ’91 and ’95, so arguably he earned a song in his honour. However, the song is as much a meditation on the pleasures of watching Le Tour as it is of Indurain himself.

Poulet stated that he actually watched Le Tour for the strange and crazy things that happen along the route, saying he preferred the parts like, “a stage in the Ardennes, slightly hilly, with a horse that runs next to the peloton for a while – it suits me”. The lyrics are minimal and you can hear the humour as Poulet mimics a TV commentator.

Le Champion Espagnol by Jean-Louis Murat

Not one to follow convention, Jean-Louis Murat penned what can only be described as a deeply spiritual song about the Toledo Eagle, Federico Bahamontes, winner of the 1959 Tour de France. Bahamontes also won the mountain classification six times and is widely regarded as one of the sports great climbers.

The lyrics to Murat’s 2011 opus are a tone poem of competitive life on Le Tour as well as a sympathetic portrait of one of cycling’s most popular characters – the Toledo Eagle is described as having kind eyes, of being tenacious, and of throwing everything into the beautiful madness that is Le Tour.

Vive Poulidor by André Verchuren

You’ll want to turn this one up loud – if this doesn’t get the blood pumping in anticipation of Le Tour 2017 I don’t know what will. The music instantly takes you back to Poupou’s heyday of the 60s’ and early 70s’, when French riders were very much in contention.

Poulidor’s career coincided with another French great – Anquetil, but this song is testament to Poupou’s enduring popularity with race fans who were happy to see him wear the Yellow Jersey in 14 Tours, including his final Tour de France when, at the age of 40, he finished in 3rd place.

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Tour de France – Cycling Playlist

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Tour de France is here and we have the best tracks for it. We kick-it-off with some classics then, for the final sprint, some fast-paced jams that will keep you cycling for more.

July may be the month when most of us are contemplating a quiet and restful afternoon at the beach. July may also be the month when we run away from the city's confusion and head to the cliffs for a short break. What July is also known for - at least for the keen followers of cycling - is the one and only Tour de France.

Tour de France is an annual cycling spectacle held primarily in France and its first edition - known then as the world's greatest bicycle race - took place in 1903. Believe it or not, the Tour de France, the world's most recognized cycling event, started as a publicity stunt for a sports magazine. Since then, the Tour became one of the most popular sports events worldwide. 

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Since it is a bit too late to try to participate in the Tour de France, we suggest you try to keep it up - at least for a while - with this year's competitors. To help you achieve the perfect rhythm, we have prepared the perfect playlist for you. 

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Tour de France is a classical competition - that is why we decided to start with some classics. Start the race with the help of The Grateful Dead and The Doors. We keep the groove with the electro-punk of another classic band: Suicide, before definitely embracing the Tour spirit the help of Kraftwerk; this German band released, in 1983, the song "Tour de France" peaking at number 22 in the United Kingdom singles charts. 

For the final sprint, we choose songs that will add the extra stamina you need: from Primal Scream to Altin Gun, LCD Soundsystem or Sensible Soccers we will cross the finish line hearing "Cyboogie" by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

Keep up the rhythm and check our previous playlists here .

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Taylor Swift Eras tour adds Tortured Poets Department and combines Folklore and Evermore eras – as it happened in Paris

Join us live as the epic show begins again at La Défense Arena in Paris

• Read more: Taylor Swift debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour
• 17h ago End Game
• 18h ago The missing songs
• 18h ago Eras Tour Europe: the new setlist
• 18h ago First Europe show ends
• 19h ago On to Midnights...
• 19h ago It's the acoustic set
• 19h ago Taylor moves to I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
• 19h ago Taylor sings The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
• 19h ago Taylor sings Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
• 19h ago Taylor performs But Daddy I Love Him
• 19h ago Taylor moves to The Tortured Poets Department
• 20h ago On to 1989!
• 20h ago Evermore and Folklore eras combined.
• 20h ago On to Folklore
• 20h ago Another shift, with several Folklore songs skipped
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• 20h ago Another change: Long Live skipped
• 21h ago Taylor sings epic 10-minute All Too Well
• 21h ago International crowd in Paris
• 21h ago Moving on to the Red era
• 21h ago Second setlist change: Red instead of Evermore!
• 21h ago Taylor moves to Fearless era
• 21h ago First setlist change…
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Eras Tour Europe: the new setlist

Will this be the new lineup for this leg of the show? Time will tell, but here’s what we witnessed in Paris tonight.

Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince

Cruel Summer

You Need to Calm Down

You Belong With Me

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

I Knew You Were Trouble

All Too Well (10-minute version)

… Ready For It?

Don’t Blame Me

Look What You Made Me Do

Folklore/Evermore

Now combined as one Era

champagne problems

illicit affairs

my tears ricochet

Blank Space

Shake It Off

Wildest Dreams

The Tortured Poets Department

But Daddy I Love Him

So High School

Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

Surprise songs

Paris (from Midnights)

loml (from TTPD)

Lavender Haze

Midnight Rain

Vigilante Shit

Thanks so much to everyone who followed the blog, to the fans in Paris who shared their thoughts throughout the day and to the readers who sent tips. It’s been a memorable evening.

Special thanks to the Guardian’s head of digital (live) Claire Phipps , a fellow Swiftie.

You can read more about tonight’s show here:

Taylor has three more nights at Paris La Défense Arena before heading to Stockholm, Lisbon and Madrid in the coming weeks.

1/4 ✅ Thank you @taylorswift13 🥹💖 #ParisTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/KKF3X4rlUA — Paris La Défense Arena (@ParisLaDefArena) May 9, 2024

The missing songs

To make way for seven new performances of songs from The Tortured Poets Department, some songs that previously were staples of the Eras tour weren’t there tonight and presumably have now disappeared from the setlist … for now.

The Archer (from Lover era)

Long Live (from Speak Now era)

the 1 (from folklore era)

the last great american dynasty (from folklore era)

’tis the damn season (from evermore era)

tolerate it (from evermore era)

Thanks to Phoebe Woodward for compiling this list.

Catch up here on Taylor’s performance of the song Paris… in Paris!

🚨| Taylor Swift performing "Paris" for the first time ever in Paris! #ParisTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/eQOCYAAm6p — The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) May 9, 2024

Fans will certainly be analysing this evening’s performance for some time.

New setlist, new performances, new outfits – while some songs were cut.

First Europe show ends

“I love you so much,” Taylor tells the crowd in the Paris arena, closing the first night of the Europe leg of her Eras tour, where she revamped her setlist and performed new music for the first time.

Taylor is singing Karma.

‘Cause karma is my boyfriend Karma is a god Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend Karma’s a relaxing thought Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not? Sweet like honey, karma is a cat Purring in my lap ‘cause it loves me Flexing like a goddamn acrobat Me and karma vibe like that

We’re on the last song :(

“This has been an unforgettable night in Paris, we love you so much!” Taylor tells the audience.

We’re close to the end of the show…

Taylor is now singing Mastermind. Love these lyrics:

What if I told you none of it was accidental And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me? I laid the groundwork and then, just like clockwork The dominoes cascaded in a line

“So on the weekends She don’t dress for friends Lately she’s been dressing for revenge”

She’s moved to Vigilante Shit.

And here’s footage from the earlier TTDP set:

🚨| Taylor Swift performing "The Smallest Man Who Ever Liver" on 'The Eras Tour' #ParisTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/c4OI2lkcl9 — The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) May 9, 2024

Midnight Rain is up now.

“It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me At tea time, everybody agrees I’ll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero”

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If you’re still not feeling Tour de France excitement, the great people of Danish TV are on hand to change that.

With football’s Euro 2020 tournament hogging sports coverage and social media conversation, it’s almost forgotten that the Tour starts in less than two weeks on June 26.

Three weeks of stage watching (this year, most probably only from the sofa and not on the roadside) is upon us and that evokes so many summery cycling memories.

As part of their build-up to their Tour coverage, Danish channel TV2 have released a magnificent one minute advert that perfectly encapsulates everything that is great and wonderful about the Tour.

Because, whether we admit it or not, most of u have been there: we’ve watched the pros , been inspired them and then gone out and tried to emulate them. And that’s what the advert is about.

Beginning with the actual definition of a MAMIL, the actor shaves his legs, straps on his bib tights and walks sheepishly past his family eating breakfast, not so-discreetly silently screaming: “Look at me!”

The actor then roars as he climbs up a residential street, a literal world way from the challenges of the Alps and Pyrenees, but the same metaphorical intensity.

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Struggling to clip into his pedals at the traffic light, the cyclist then takes a look at the other side of the road where he sees a larger cyclist soaking himself in cold water, before the advert finishes with an impromptu peloton climbing together.

It’s magical, it’s poetic and it’s got us excited for three weeks of binge watching the greatest bike race of the lot.

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Taylor Swift's European Eras Tour leg kicked off in Paris with a new setlist. See which songs are in and out.

May 9, 2024 / 8:24 PM EDT / CBS/AFP

Taylor Swift fever struck Paris on Thursday as the highest-grossing tour in history finally arrived in Europe, with fans treated to the first-ever performance of songs from her latest album.

The Eras Tour began its European leg with four dates at the La Defense Arena in Paris.

"I wish I could have toured Europe more. This is a dream crowd," the 34-year-old megastar told the ecstatic audience.

There were deafening shrieks as images of typewriter sheets indicated that songs off the new album "The Tortured Poets Department" were starting late in the show.

Emerging in a lyrics-covered dress, she ran through several of the darker new tracks starting with "But Daddy I Love Him" and "Fortnight", a particularly furious rendition of "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" and an elaborate "I Can Do it with a Broken Heart," with a golden-era Hollywood dance routine.

Other "The Tortured Poets Department" songs performed included "So High School," "Down Bad" and "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived," according to ETonline .

"You were the first crowd to see songs from 'The Tortured Poets Department'," she said, before adding: "Or, as I like to call it, 'Female Rage: the Musical.'"

That was a dream come true for many in the audience.

"I've been so excited for so long, I can't believe it's actually happening," said 11-year-old Emma, who had flown in with her mother from New York.

Adding songs from "The Tortured Poets Department" wasn't the only change to the show and its 45-song setlist.

Perhaps the biggest change, according to ETonline, is the "Folklore" and "Evermore" setlists were combined, cutting four songs across the two albums: "'Tis the Damn Season," "Tolerate It," "The 1" and "The Last Great American Dynasty."

"On the Eras Tour, we have now reunited the sisters, combined them into one chapter," Swift said, according to video posted to social media. "You can call it "Folklore, Evermore" or you can call it the Sister Albums! You can call it whatever you want as long as you promise to sing 'Champagne Problems' with me."  

"The Archer" was removed from the "Lovers" portion of the show and "Long Live" was cut from the "Speak Now" era setlist, according to ETonline.

One of the secret songs was, fittingly, the "Midnights" bonus track "Paris."  

Parts of the show were also rearranged to make room for the newest era. The "Red" era was moved from the fifth to the third slot, according to ETonline, and the newest album was introduced following the "1989" set.

The venue said a fifth of the crowd were from the United States — many attracted by Europe's rules against charging huge mark-ups on resale tickets that can save Americans thousands of dollars compared with shows at home.

Georg'Ann Daly decided to celebrate her 23rd birthday with the Paris show. It meant flying from Nashville to Chicago to London and catching the Eurostar to Paris.

"I've always been obsessed with Taylor Swift," she told AFP.

A handful of superfans camped out from Tuesday in Paris to ensure they got a prime spot.

"I didn't plan to, but I came to check it out and I saw the first tents and I panicked a little," said Chris, 30.

Noah, 20, is seeing all four Paris concerts — he used 22 email addresses to get through the lottery system and secure the tickets.

After wrapping up her run in Paris, Swift will head for dates in Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland and Austria.

The Eras Tour has worked its way across North and South America and Asia since starting in March 2023.

By the end of the year, it had already become the first to sell more than $1 billion in tickets and is on track to more than double that by the time it concludes in Vancouver this December.

Swift's popularity shows no sign of dimming — the new album sold 1.4 million copies on its first day and broke every streaming record , reaching a billion streams on Spotify within five days.

Swift's tell-all dissections of her love stories have been the fuel powering her global domination, and fans have been poring over "The Tortured Poets Department" for cryptic clues about ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn, her short-but-dramatic fling with Matty Healy (lead singer of The 1975), and her current partner, American football star Travis Kelce.

"Taylor talks about toxic relationships, impossible love, politics, mental health, and so much more," said Chris as she waited by her tent for the big moment. "I think we can all find a song that resonates with our experiences." 

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Taylor Swift’s 2024 Eras Tour Setlist Features A Huge Change-Up

The singer resumed her record-breaking tour in Paris, France.

It’s me, hi, I’m the setlist, it’s me — and welcome to the Eras Tour , again . Taylor Swift resumed her record-breaking Eras Tour in Paris, France, on May 9, and it came with quite the twist. For the first time in the tour’s run, the singer significantly upheaved her setlist , rearranging the order of the show’s ten acts representing her landmark studio albums to squeeze in a new era.

As fans have suspected for months, Swift added a whole new section to the show including songs from her latest album The Tortured Poets Department , all of which are being performed live for the first time. Understandably, Swift had to cut a good number of songs, including “The Archer” and “Long Live,” to add seven Tortured Poets tracks into her show’s usual run time of three-and-a-half hours.

She’s also changed the running order of the eras significantly. While she started with the Lover era and transitioned into Fearless as usual, she then went into the Red era sooner than expected. ( Evermore usually had followed the Fearless act.) She even combined the Folklore and Evermore eras into one act. (They’ve always been called “sister albums” after all).

Swift has made the occasional change on the road, like switching out her Folklore track “invisible string” for “the 1,” adding “Long Live” to the Speak Now act, and performing “Nothing New” and “no body, no crime” at shows where duet partners Phoebe Bridgers and HAIM opened for her. But this is the first time she’s amended the setlist to this extent. Read on for Swift’s revised Eras Tour setlist.

Taylor Swift’s 2024 Eras Tour Setlist

• “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” (short)
• “Cruel Summer”
• “You Need to Calm Down”
• “You Belong With Me”
• “Love Story”
• “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
• “I Knew You Were Trouble”
• “All Too Well (10-Minute Version)”
• “Enchanted”
• “...Ready For It?”
• “Don’t Blame Me”
• “Look What You Made Me Do”
• “champagne problems”
• “illicit affairs” (short)
• “my tears ricochet”
• “Blank Space”
• “Shake It Off”
• “Wildest Dreams”
• “Bad Blood”
• “But Daddy I Love Him”
• “So High School” (short)
• “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
• “Fortnight”
• “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”
• “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”
• Surprise Song #1
• Surprise Song #2
• “Lavender Haze”
• “Anti-Hero”
• “Midnight Rain”
• “Vigilante Sh*t”
• “Bejeweled”
• “Mastermind”

Taylor Swift has changed upcoming Eras Tour dates for exciting reason

Taylor Swift 's worldwide Eras Tour resumes tonight after a two-month break following the end of her Singapore shows as the 34-year-old kicks off the European leg in Paris, France .

Ahead of the highly anticipated show, which will also mark her first performance since the release of her record-breaking album The Tortured Poets Department , her tour manager Arnaud Meersseman set the fanbase into a frenzy with some quick comments.

The AEG Presents manager revealed Taylor's appearance in Paris had a major role in defining her European leg as she had to be in town on specific dates due to the Olympics preparations happening in the French capital.

He explained that the Grammy winner wasn't able to perform at the Stade de France due to the work happening on the stadium and had to find another venue capable of seating the sensational crowd her shows attract.

The manager told France Info : "She postponed the start of her tour to be able to join Paris and do La Défense Arena."

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However, this threw another spanner in the works as she had to bring her Paris dates forward because the Arena is also being used for the Olympics and work to turn it into an Olympic swimming pool is expected to start days after her final performance there.

The songstress is performing four shows at the Arena, with roughly 42,000 concertgoers expected, before heading to Sweden but Arnaud insisted she could've done many more.

He claimed: "We could have filled 12 or 14 La Défense Arena without any problem."

"I hope we're not going to crack the Grande Arche de La Défense!"

In an exciting update, Arnaud seemingly confirmed that concertgoers can now expect the singer to include a brand new era in the show.

Taylor's latest album The Tortured Poets Department released on April 19, marking a new era for the singer who is cycling through her entire catalogue of songs for the ambitious tour.

Arnaud teased: "We are going to discover a slightly modified show."

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Taylor Swift Adds TTPD Songs (and Subtracts Others) from Eras Tour Setlist as European Leg Kicks Off in Paris

The singer's May 9 show marks her first since releasing 'The Tortured Poets Department' — see all the setlist changes

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• Taylor Swift resumed her Eras Tour in Paris on May 9
• The concert marked her first since releasing her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department
• She added songs from TTPD to the tour setlist, while removing a handful of other album tracks throughout the show

Taylor Swift is back and better than ever!

After a nearly two-month break from her historic Eras Tour , during which she released her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department , the singer has taken the stage once again, and this time, she’s in Europe.

The pop star, 34, took the stage at Paris La Défense Arena in France on May 9 to perform her career-spanning set list — which has been edited to make room for TTPD tracks, meaning some others have been cut (at least for now). New outfits, set pieces and choreography were also present.

Fans realized they were in for a fresh Eras Tour experience when the concert's introduction video was changed to include a TTPD section of the Lover house representing each of Swift's eras.

As per usual, she opened the show Thursday with the Lover section — but skipped "The Archer." From there, the Grammy winner went into Fearless followed by Red , performing the sections in a different order than during the previous tour legs. Another nod to the setlist switch-ups? Swift sported a t-shirt that read, "This Is Not Taylor's Version," while performing "22."

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Next came the Speak Now section, and she removed "Long Live," which was initially added following the July 2023 release of the album's rerecorded Taylor's Version .

The Reputation segment then arrived, followed by a combined Folklore and Evermore section with "The 1," "The Last Great American Dynasty," "Tolerate It" and "'Tis the Damn Season" getting cut.

"I have always talked about Folklore and Evermore as sister albums," explained Swift on stage. "On the Eras Tour, we have reunited the sisters, combined them into one chapter, you can call it 'Folkmore,' 'Everlore,' you can call it whatever you want as long as you promise to sing 'Champagne Problems' really loud."

The 1989 section came afterwards, and then The Tortured Poets Department . The section highlighting Swift's latest album featured "But Daddy I Love Him," "So High School," "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me," "Down Bad," "Fortnight," "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" and "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart."

Swift then performed two surprise songs: "Paris" from Midnights and "loml" from TTPD .

The show concluded with the Midnights section, with all seven tracks from previous shows remaining in the setlist.

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Since Swift's last round of Eras Tour shows in Singapore in March — which the pop star dubbed an “unforgettable way to end this leg of the tour” — she has kept busy, attending Coachella , enjoying date nights with boyfriend Travis Kelce and, of course, releasing her latest album.

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The ”Florida!!!” singer will play three more shows at the Paris La Défense Arena on May 10, 11 and 12 before heading to the rest of her May tour stops, which include Stockholm, Lisbon and Madrid.

Then, the Eras Tour’s European leg will continue, returning to France (Lyon this time!) and hitting the U.K. before heading to Dublin in late June.

Swift will continue performing in Europe throughout the summer before wrapping in London in August and heading back to North America for a slew of shows in Toronto and, finally, Vancouver.

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