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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...