This article originally appeared in Uncut Take 287 (April 2021) “I think I called him Serge Bourguignon,” says Jane Birkin, recalling her first meeting with Gainsbourg on the set of the film ...

PARIS — Serge Gainsbourg’s apartment at 5 bis rue de ... reggae and funk — 1971’s groovy “Histoire de Melody Nelson” (a concept album about an affair between a middle-aged man and ...

When Serge Gainsbourg died ... the greatness of Histoire De Melody Nelson, but even if our French is decent, many of us miss the slang, the puns, the allusions, the syncopated intonation, alliteration ...

It seems like only yesterday we were commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of the grand-père terrible of French pop, Serge Gainsbourg ... Histoire de Melody Nelson, Gainsbourg's ...

After Serge Gainsbourg met you ... me so after [French singer-songwriter Georges] Brassens' death. The best? "Ah, [Charles] Trenet and [Léo] Ferré thank you for that!" I retorted.

On March 2, 1991, Serge Gainsbourg ... to live with Gainsbourg at 5 bis. For a few years, the sun shone brightly on Gainsbourg and Birkin. In 1971, he released Histoire de Melody Nelson, a concept ...

Visitors to Paris will soon be able to explore the former home of French singer and actor Serge Gainsbourg, which has been preserved as a time capsule since his death three decades ago. Maison ...

“I couldn’t speak French,” she’d later recall in Sylvie Simmons’ book Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes. “I had about two hours to learn it.” She nevertheless got both the role ...

With Jane Birkin’s passing, France loses both an icon and one of its greatest enigmas. To focus on France is not to diminish the fact that Birkin’s death will be mourned around the world.

By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way ... A video accompanying the song, a melody from Chopin with a disco beat, showed father ...

On a visit to Serge Gainsbourg’s former home in Paris, the tour stops momentarily before a tiny glass-walled placard. One could barely describe it as a wardrobe, it’s more a cubby, in which ...