Serge Gainsbourg, the singer and songwriter known for his image of unshaven decadence and his songs full of provocative, sometimes tender lyrics, died late Saturday at his home here, officials said.

The words to songs such as 1967’s “Je t’aime … Moi, non plus” (“I love you … me neither”) metaphorically and not too subtly evoke the sexual act.

Jean-Jacques BERNIERWhen Serge Gainsbourg, one of France’s most influential singer-songwriters, died aged 62 on March 2, 1991, then-president François Mitterrand described him as “our ...

Serge Gainsbourg, the French pop poet and provocateur who courted controversy while scaling the heights of stardom over the course of his decades-spanning career, is the subject of an upcoming ...

Twenty years after Serge Gainsbourg’s death, thousands of people dropped by the Hollywood Bowl to hear a tribute to the late French music icon. It was an outsized show. Mike Patton of Faith No ...

This depraved, sordid story is told on a song-by-song basis by its provocative creator Serge Gainsbourg on his 1976 album L'Homme à tête de chou. The narrative of the album whose title translates as ...

As difficult as it may be to put questions of authorship and copyright aside, when we momentarily look past them, it’s possible to see some subversive thinking in how Gainsbourg and Goraguer paired ...

But, while he seems to be enjoying quite the fashion revival lately, Gainsbourg's late '60s and early '70s soundtrack work has still remained a footnote in his lengthy career. By the time 1968 ...

Serge Gainsbourg, who died 25 years ago, was well known for his eclectic songs and rebellious attitude, a French cross between Tom Jones and Johnny Rotten.