Serge Gainsbourg described himself as a Russian Jew. More precisely, his musician parents fled Tsarist Ukraine before emigrating to Paris in 1921, escaping pogroms and the Bolsheviks. In Ukraine, ...
When 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 Baudelaire, our Apollinaire. He ...
Jane Birkin has been determined to honor the musical legacy of her late lover, Serge Gainsbourg. The British actress, model and singer took to the stage on Friday at New York City’s Beacon Theatre ...
On March 2, 1991, Serge Gainsbourg went to sleep in his bed on the second floor of his house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil in Paris and never woke up. A second heart attack killed him at age 62. For all of ...
During the '90s, discovering Serge Gainsbourg was a record geek rite of passage. His album covers were tantalizing—Histoire De Melody Nelson, the 1971 LP that may very well be his best, suggested ...
I’ll never forget the moment I first experienced the pop rapture of Serge Gainsbourg. It was sometime in the mid-’90s (I tend to catch up to stuff rather late — I didn’t hear the Velvet Under- ...
It’s rare that an act of sexual aggression gets celebrated in American culture. But when the Hollywood Bowl’s tribute concert to the late French singer-actor-director-composer-provocateur Serge ...
Cartoonist Joann Sfar’s name may not mean much in the United States, but in France he’s nearly as revered as the pop icon at the center of his directorial debut. “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life” delivers a ...
The new film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is an unconventional biopic about French musician Serge Gainsbourg. He is celebrated in France for the songs he wrote, and the affairs he had with beautiful ...
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