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 ...

In April 1979, the legendary French singer Serge Gainsbourg showed a TV crew around his home in Paris. He lived in a townhouse, a hôtel particulier, at 5 bis Rue de Verneuil on the Rive Gauche ...

a new animated documentary based on an interview with Serge Gainsbourg two years before his death is on its way. The animation film, titled Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil, is presented as part of ...

Touring the world, singing Gainsbourg songs backed by a full orchestra, this singer, actress, model and muse is getting ready to play Carnegie Hall on Thursday. Serge Gainsbourg, who died 25 years ...

After a disappointing date with his then-girlfriend actress and singer, Brigitte Bardot, who was married at the time, Serge Gainsbourg was tasked by the French actress with writing her “the most ...

After her father Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, actor Charlotte Gainsbourg left the house she inherited in stylish Saint-Germain-des-Prés exactly as it was. A packet of Smarties stayed by the bed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After more than 32 years under wraps, the doors to French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg's Paris residence ... entire album around his "Histoire de Melody Nelson"), to pop (Kylie Minogue ...

After years of planning, Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of the late singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, has opened up her Parisian childhood home to the public. The former home of French ...

Fans of chanson française have been making pilgrimages to 5 bis rue de Verneuil, the house on the Left Bank of Paris where Gainsbourg spent the last 22 years of his life, ever since he died on 2 ...