Featured Playlist
- 25 Songs
- Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg · 1969
- Gainsbourg percussions · 1964
- Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg · 1969
- Gainsbourg London Paris 1963 - 1971 · 2016
- Comme un boomerang · 1959
- Histoire de Melody Nelson · 1971
- Comme un boomerang · 1968
- You're Under Arrest · 1987
- Le Zenith De Gainsbourg · 1989
- Comme un boomerang · 1958
Essential Albums
- 1984
- 1968
Artist Playlists
- This French bad boy was also a musical genius.
- They were transformed by the French legend's mix of dark wit and lush melody.
- A selection of hidden gems as beguiling as the man himself.
- The suggestive Frenchman's jazz, country and chanson background.
- The sprawling genius of this French provocateur, sung by other stars.
- 2022
Appears On
- Michel Colombier
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About Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg made his recording debut in 1958, but it was in the late '60s that his brief affair with actress Brigitte Bardot parlayed Gainsbourg's jazz-inflected music to lushly arranged and erotic sound. Afterward, he became involved with Jane Birkin and they recorded the 1969 duet "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus," a song complete with steamy lyrics and explicit heavy breathing. Although banned in many countries, it reached the top of the charts throughout Europe. Gainsbourg returned in 1971 with Histoire de Melody Nelson, a dark song cycle which signalled his increasing alienation from modern culture: drugs, disease, suicide, and misanthropy became thematic fixtures of his work. ~ Jason Ankeny
- HOMETOWN
- Paris, France
- BORN
- 2 April 1928
- GENRE
- French Pop