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- Serge Gainsbourg Essentials
- 24 Songs
- Monsieur Gainsbourg Originals · 1968
- Monsieur Gainsbourg Originals · 1969
- Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg · 1969
- Initials B.B. · 1968
- Histoire de Melody Nelson · 1971
- L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg (N°3) · 1961
- Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited · 2006
- Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg · 1968
- Histoire de Melody Nelson · 1971
- Laisse Tomber Les Filles - Single · 2018
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- This French bad boy was also a musical genius.
- They were transformed by the French legend's mix of dark wit and lush melody.
- The suggestive Frenchman's jazz, country, and chanson background.
- The sprawling genius of this French provocateur, sung by other stars.
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- Michel Colombier
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
- April 2, 1928