Boris Vian Serge Gainsbourg predicted would mark a before and after in the history of the song. And he did, immersed in a cloud of nicotine from which renewed the chanson française while wearing a bohemian life with Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin and Bambou.
25 years of his death due to a heart attack at the age of 62 years, the singer still generates fascination for an artist of late maturity, with discreet voice, unusual features and protruding ears, attraction emanating from a lyrical sensibility portentous and a boundless charisma .
the Parisian Galerie de L’Instant devoted to him, March 11 to May 31, a photo exhibition with snapshots of Tony Frank, documentarian of show business during 15 years followed Gainsbourg.
Almost always smoking, shows a thoughtful, cheerful creator, who manipulates a puppet or kiss Jane Birkin, in a series whose common denominator is “beauty” according to the gallery.
beauty always embraced Gainsbourg, but grew up and lived feeling ugly. It’s not like, or in the fifties, when he aspired to be a painter and played piano in cabarets, or decades later, already recognized as a musical and elegant international seductive precursor.
Divorced from his first two wives and eight albums released, though with moderate success in 1967 Gainsbourg met actress Brigitte Bardot, to whom he owed a song.
“We live a very pure and very romantic love. a love as dreams, once in life. it’s been 40 years, but our history is still a sublime moment of passion, “he recalled decades later Bardot.
They sang together songs like” Bonnie and Clyde “and” Harley Davidson “and the embedded forever in the title of a disc: Initials BB also recorded with Bardot” Je t’aime … moi non plus “, his hymn to love intermittent, although he kept copy for 20 years.
the world famous version, seasoned with carnal sighs, is that recorded in 1968 a duet with Jane Birkin, which had met during the filming of the movie Slogan .
Birkin was 18 years younger and tore as a singer and actress, while Gainsbourg had made his fortune after surrendering to commercial music and enjoyed the money and fame and stardom.
Her song “Poupée of cire, poupée de son” had won the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 in the mouth of France Gall; Also with her was monetized “Les Sucettes” a musical allegory fellatio that Gall innocent thought a song about candy.
The provocateur Gainsbourg and sweet Birkin became one of the most media couples world during the 12 years that remained together, a union of born actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (1971) and propelled the careers of both.
Tired of his alcoholism, his disordered life and some violent episodes, Birkin ended up leaving him in 1980, while he continued splashing in a puddle of alcohol and a character born to provoke invented, Gainsbarre , which eventually engulf.
Gainsbarre was stammered, which burned tickets in interviews or who told Whitney Houston who wanted to sleep with her, on television, live and in a country as poor as forceful English.
Then went out with Bambou a former singer and addicted model who was his partner until his heart stopped beating in a Parisian night in March, and who had to Lucien Gainsbourg (1986).
a Gainsbourg, whose remains rest in the cemetery of Montparnasse, has left a legacy of 17 studio albums, a movie, more than 650 letters and scores of jazz, rap, rock, reggae and Afro-Cuban music with an unknown brash hitherto in French music.
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