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Serge Gainsbourg [sɛʁʒ ɡɛ̃'zbuʁ] (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. Although famous in France for many years, he did not achieve his first No. 1 album until 1979, when he released Aux Armes et caetera more than twenty years after his music career had begun. Since the 1980s, his legacy has been firmly established. is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... -1... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Chanson is a French word for song, and in English-language contexts is often applied to any song with French words, particularly a cabaret song. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. ... French rock is a form of rock music produced primarily in France, but also in other francophone countries. ... French pop music is the pop music sung in the French language. ... A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... -1... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ...

Biography

Personal life

He was born Lucien Ginsburg^[1] in Paris, France, the son of Russian Jewish parents who fled to France after the 1919 Bolshevik uprising. His childhood was profoundly affected by the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, during which he and his family, as Jews, were forced to wear the yellow star and eventually flee Paris. This article is about the capital of France. ... The vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest Jewish population in the world. ... This article is about the Bolshevik faction in the RSDLP 1903-1912. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

Before he was 30 years old, Gainsbourg was a disillusioned painter but earned his living as a piano player in bars.

He had a daughter, actress Charlotte, with English singer and actress Jane Birkin; and a son, Lucien (best known as Lulu), with his last partner, Bambou (Caroline von Paulus, who is related to Friedrich Paulus). Birkin states "Serge could only show love for his child if there was a camera there to record it. He was very shy."^[2] Charlotte Gainsbourg (born July 21, 1971) is a French actress and singer. ... Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an actress and singer. ... Friedrich Paulus. ...

Birkin recollects the beginning her affair with Gainsbourg , where he first took her to a nightclub, then to a transvestite club and afterwards to the Hilton, where he passed out in a drunken stupor. He confessed to Birkin that he had been scared of Bardot's breasts. Gainsbourg married Birkin when she was 19, he was 36. Birkin left Gainsbourg when pregnant with her third daughter Lou, by the film director Jacques Doillon, whom she later married. ^[3] Jacques Doillon is French film director, born 15 March 1944, Paris, France. ...

Early work

His early songs were influenced by Boris Vian and were largely in the vein of "old-fashioned" chanson. Very early, however, Gainsbourg began to move beyond this and experiment with a succession of different musical styles: jazz early on, pop in the 1960s, reggae in the 1970s, and electronica in the 1980s. Boris Vian (March 10, 1920 – June 23, 1959) was a French writer, poet, singer, and musician, who also wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. ... Chanson is a French word for song, and in English-language contexts is often applied to any song with French words, particularly a cabaret song. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. ... Electronica refers to a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; but unlike electronic dance music, is not specifically focused on the dance floor. ...

Many of his songs would contain themes with a morbid or sexual twist in them. An early success, "Le Poinçonneur des Lilas", describes the day in the life of a Paris Métro ticket man whose job it is to stamp holes in passengers' tickets. Gainsbourg describes this chore as so monotonous that the man eventually thinks of putting a hole into his own head and being buried in another. Métro redirects here. ...

More success began to arrive when, in 1965, his song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" was the Luxembourg entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. Performed by French teen singer France Gall, it won first prize. (The song was covered in English as "A Lonely Singing Doll" by British teen idol Twinkle.) Poupée de cire, poupée de son (Wax doll, sawdust doll) was the winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1965. ... Eurovision redirects here. ... France Gall (born Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall on October 9, 1947 in Paris) is a popular French singer. ... Lynn Ripley, known as Twinkle (born 1948) was a British pop music singer in the 1960s. ...

His next song for Gall, "Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops"), caused a scandal in France: Gainsbourg had written the song with double-meanings and strong sexual innuendo, of which the singer was apparently unaware when she recorded it. Whereas Gall thought that the song was about a girl enjoying lollipops, it was really about oral sex. The controversy arising from the song, although a big hit for Gall, threw her career off-track in France for several years. Les Sucettes song (from French the lollipops) is one of France Galls most important hits along with Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son, both written by Serge Gainsbourg. ... Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. ...

Gainsbourg arranged other Gall songs and LPs that were characteristic of the late 1960s psychedelic styles, among them Gall's 1968 album. Another of Serge's songs "Boum Bada Boum" was entered in by Monaco in the 1967 contest, sung by Minouche Barelli; it came fifth. He also wrote hit songs for other artists, such as "Comment Te Dire Adieu" for Françoise Hardy. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Françoise Hardy (French IPA: ) (born Françoise Madeleine Hardy, January 17, 1944 in Paris) is a French singer, actress and astrologer. ...

In 1969, he released what would become his most famous song in the English-speaking world,^{[citation needed]} "Je t'aime... moi non plus," which featured simulated sounds of female orgasm. The song appeared that year on an LP, Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg. Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot, it was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out. While Gainsbourg declared it the "ultimate love song," it was considered too "hot"; the song was censored in various countries, and in France even the toned-down version was suppressed. The Vatican made a public statement citing the song as offensive. It reached no. 1 in the UK singles chart. For the film, see Je taime. ... An orgasm (sexual climax) is the conclusion of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, and may be experienced by both males and females. ... Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg (also known as Je taime. ... Brigitte Bardot (French IPA: ) (born September 28, 1934) is a BAFTA Awards-nominated French actress, former fashion model, singer, known nationalist, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten. ...

The seventies

Histoire de Melody Nelson was released in 1971. This concept album, produced and arranged by Jean-Claude Vannier, tells the story of a Lolita-esque affair, with Gainsbourg as the narrator and Jane Birkin as the eponymous English heroine. It features prominent string arrangements and even a massed choir at its tragic climax. At the time, sales were poor, but the album has proven influential with artists such as Air, David Holmes, Jarvis Cocker, and Beck. Histoire de Melody Nelson is a 1971 concept album by controversial French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. ... In popular music, a concept album is an album which is unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical (Shuker 2002, p. ... Jean-Claude Vannier (b. ... Lolita is a slang term for a seductive, sexually attractive, or sexually precocious young girl. ... For the Japanese band, see Air (Japanese band). ... David Holmes is a Northern Irish DJ, musician and composer. ... Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963, in Sheffield, England) is an English musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp. ... This article is about the musician. ...

In 1975, he released the album Rock Around the Bunker, a rock album written entirely on the subject of the Nazis. Gainsbourg used black humour, as he and his family suffered during World War II. While a child in Paris, Gainsbourg had worn the yellow badge as the mark of a Jew. Rock Around the Bunker belonged in the mid-1970s "retro" trend. Rock Around The Bunker was a 1975 album by French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, containing songs which combined pseudo-1950s musical arrangements in the manner of Grease or The Rocky Horror Show with lyrics relating to Nazi Germany and World War II complete with Gainsbourgs usual sex and... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with serious subjects – death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Compulsory Jewish badge under the Nazi occupation of Europe: the Star of David with the word Jew inside (this one in German) A yellow badge, also referred to as a Jewish badge, was a mandatory mark or a piece of cloth of specific geometric shape, worn on the outer garment...

The next year saw the release of another major work, L'Homme à tête de chou (Cabbage-Head Man), featuring the new character Marilou and sumptuous orchestral themes. Musically, L'homme à tête de chou turned out to be Gainsbourg's last LP in the English rock style he had favoured since the late 1960s. He would go on to produce two reggae albums recorded in Jamaica (1979 and 1981) and two electronic funk albums recorded in New York (1984 and 1987).

In Jamaica in 1978 he recorded "Aux Armes et cetera," a reggae version of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise," with Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, and Rita Marley. This song earned him death threats from right-wing veterans of the Algerian War of Independence who were opposed to certain lyrics. Shortly afterward, Gainsbourg bought the original manuscript of "La Marseillaise." He was able to reply to his critics that his version was, in fact, closer to the original as the manuscript clearly shows the words "Aux armes et cætera..." for the chorus. Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. ... This article is about the anthem La Marseillaise. A sculpture popularly called La Marseillaise is part of the sculptural program of the Arc de Triomphe. ... Sly and Robbie are probably reggaes most prolific and long lasting production team. ... Lowell Sly Fillmore Dunbar was born on 10 May 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Combatants FLN (1954-62) MNA (1954-62) France (1954-62) FAF (1960-61) OAS (1961-62) Commanders Mostefa Benboulaïd Ferhat Abbas Hocine Aït Ahmed Ahmed Ben Bella Krim Belkacem Larbi Ben MHidi Rabah Bitat Mohamed Boudiaf Messali Hadj General Jacques Massu General Maurice Challe Bachaga Said Boualam...

The next year saw him in the new look of Gainsbarre, officially introduced in the song "Ecce Homo."

Final years

After a 13 year long turbulent relationship Jane Birkin left Gainsbourg.^[4] In the 1980s, approaching the end of his life, Gainsbourg became a regular figure on French TV. His appearances seemed devoted to his controversial sense of humour and provocation. He would show up drunk and unshaven on stage. On Michel Drucker's live Saturday evening show with the American singer Whitney Houston, he exclaimed to the host, "I want to fuck her."^[1] In another talk show interview he appeared alongside Catherine Ringer, a well known singer who in the past had appeared in pornographic films. Gainsbourg shouted, "You're nothing but a filthy whore, a filthy, fucking whore." Ringer scolded back, "Look at you, you're just a bitter old alcoholic. I used to admire you but these days you've become a disgusting old parasite."^[5] Michel Drucker (born September 12, 1942) is a popular French journalist and TV host. ... Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is a six-time Grammy award winning, American R&B singer, soprano, pianist, actress, film producer, and former model. ... Catherine Ringer (born October 18, 1957, Suresnes, France) is a singer, musician, songwriter, and pornoactress. ...

By December, 1988, while a judge at a film festival in Val d'Isère, he appeared drunk and in a rage at a local theatre where he was to do a presentation. While on stage he began to tell an obscene story about Brigitte Bardot and a champagne bottle, only to stagger offstage and collapse in a nearby seat.^[5] Val dIsere ski resort A view of Val dIsere ski resort. ...

Subsequent years saw his health deteriorate. He had to undergo liver surgery - although he denied any connection to cancer or cirrhosis. His appearances and releases become sparser as he had to rest and recover in Vezelay.

During this period he released Love on the Beat, a controversial electronic album with highly sexual themes in the lyrics, and his last studio album, You're Under Arrest, (which saw him adapt his style to the hip-hop genre), as well as two live recordings. His third and last Eurovision Song Contest entry came in 1990 with the French entry "White and Black Blues," sung by Joëlle Ursull. It came second in a tie with Ireland. Love on the Beat was a 1984 album by French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... White and Black Blues was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, performed in French (with some words in English) by Joëlle Ursull. ...

His songs became increasingly eccentric during this period, ranging from the anti-drug "Aux Enfants de la Chance" to the duet with his daughter Charlotte named "Lemon Incest."^[6] This translates as "Inceste de citron", a wordplay on "un zeste de citron" (a tang of lemon). The title demonstrates Gainsbourg's love for puns (another example of which is Bowie, Beau oui comme Bowie). Charlotte Gainsbourg (born July 21, 1971) is a French actress and singer. ...

Film work

During his career, he wrote the soundtracks for more than 40 films. In 1996, he received a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Élisa, along with Zbigniew Preisner and Michel Colombier. Winners of the César Award for Best Music written for film (before 2000 it was called the César Award for Best Music) : 2007  : -M- - Ne le dis à personne 2006  : Alexandre Desplat - De battre mon cÅ“ur sest arrêté 2005  : Bruno Coulais - Les Choristes 2004  : Benoît... Zbigniew Preisner (born May 20 in Bielsko-BiaÅ‚a, 1955) is one of Polands leading film score composers, best known for his work with director Krzysztof KieÅ›lowski. ... Michel Colombier (May 23, 1939 — November 14, 2004), was a French composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor. ...

He directed four movies: Je t'aime... moi non plus, Équateur, Charlotte For Ever and Stan The Flasher. Je taime. ...

Death and legacy

Gainsbourg's grave in the Montparnasse Cemetery (he is buried with his parents).

Gainsbourg died on March 2, 1991 of a heart attack and was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery, in Paris. His funeral brought Paris to a standstill, and French President François Mitterrand said of him, "He was our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire... He elevated the song to the level of art."^[7] His home at the well-known address 5bis rue de Verneuil is still covered in graffiti and poems. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (985x667, 85 KB) Summary Grave of Serge Gainsbourg. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (985x667, 85 KB) Summary Grave of Serge Gainsbourg. ... -1... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. ... This article is about the capital of France. ...   IPA: (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). ... Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821–August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets. ... Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 _ November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic. ...

Since his death, Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France. His lyrical brilliance in French has left an extraordinary legacy. His music, always progressive, covered many styles: jazz, ballads, mambo, lounge, reggae, pop (including adult contemporary pop, kitsch pop, yé-yé pop, '80s pop, pop-art pop, prog pop, space-age pop, psychedelic pop, and erotic pop), disco, calypso, Africana, bossa nova, and rock and roll. He has gained a following in the English-speaking world with many non-mainstream artists finding his arrangements highly influential. Yé-yé is a style of pop music, popular in France in the 1960s. ... Calypso might refer to one of several things: Calypso is the name of a sea nymph in Greek mythology; Calypso music is a style of Caribbean folk music; Calypso is the name of an album sung by Harry Belafonte; Calypso is the name of a moon of Saturn; 53 Kalypso... For other uses, see Bossa nova (disambiguation). ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...

He is also considered to be one of the first music pop artists of the late 1960s. While artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein explored modern iconographic consumer culture through painting, Gainsbourg explored similar territory in music with songs such as "Comic Strip," "Ford Mustang," "Qui est In Qui est Out," and "Teenie Weenie Boppie." Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who was a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. ... Roy Lichtenstein (27 October 1923–29 September 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being as artificial as possible. // Roy Lichtenstein was born on 27 October 1923 into an upper-middle-class family in...

One of the most frequent interpreters of Gainsbourg's songs was British singer Petula Clark, whose success in France was propelled by her recordings of his tunes. In 2003, she wrote and recorded La Chanson de Gainsbourg as a tribute to the composer of some of her biggest hits. Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. ...

His lyrics are collected in the volume Dernières nouvelles des étoiles.

In 2005, the album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited was released by Virgin Records. The album consisted of specially-recorded English-language cover versions of Gainsbourg's songs, recorded by artists as diverse as Franz Ferdinand, Portishead, Placebo, and Michael Stipe. Monsieur Gainsbour Revisited was a tribute album to the works of late French Singer/Songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. ... Franz Ferdinand are an indie rock band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2001. ... Beth Gibbons, Portishead For the town, see Portishead, Somerset. ... Ashtray Heart redirects here. ... REDIRECT Template:Infobox Musician John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) is the lead singer of the American rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the mumbling style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well...

Trivia

• The first English-language version of a Gainsbourg song was Dionne Warwick's 1965 version of Mamadou.
• Australian rock musician Mick Harvey released two CDs worth of Gainsbourg's songs translated into English.
• Reggae star Bob Marley was furious when he discovered Gainsbourg made his wife Rita Marley sing erotic lyrics.^[1]
• He once burned a 500 French franc note (roughly 75 €) on television to protest against heavy taxation.^[8]
• Placebo did a cover of Gainsbourg's "The Ballad Of Melody Nelson".
• Gainsbourg's song "Bonnie and Clyde" is featured in the burlesque show scene of Rush Hour 3.
• American alt-rock band Luna included a cover of "Bonnie and Clyde" as a hidden track on their 1995 album Penthouse.
• Australian pop singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue extensively sampled his duet with Brigitte Bardot "Bonnie and Clyde" on the song "Sensitized" off her 2007 album X. In 2003, she sampled "Je t'aime... moi non plus" in a modified version of her song "Breathe" (which originally did not contain any samples) for a special one-off live performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in promotion of her album Body Language.
• Senegalese French rapper MC Solaar sampled Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot's song "Bonnie & Clyde" in his song "Nouveau Western", on his 1994 album, Prose Combat
• Okkervil River covers "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" in english ("I Came Here To Say I'm Going Away").

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Discography

• 1958: Du chant à la une
• 1959: Disque N°2
• 1961: L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg
• 1962: Disque N°4
• 1963: Gainsbourg Confidentiel
• 1964: Gainsbourg Percussions
• 1967: Anna
• 1967: Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot: Bonnie & Clyde
• 1968: Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot: Initials B.B.
• 1968: Ce Sacré Grand-Père
• 1969: Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg
• 1970: Cannabis
• 1971: Histoire de Melody Nelson
• 1974: Vu de l'extérieur
• 1975: Rock Around the Bunker
• 1976: L'homme à tête de chou
• 1979: Aux armes et cætera
• 1980: Enregistrement public au Théâtre Le Palace
• 1981: Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles
• 1984: Love On The Beat
• 1985: Serge Gainsbourg live (Casino de Paris)
• 1987: You're under arrest
• 1988: Le Zénith de Gainsbourg
• 1989: De Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre (Box Set)
• 2001: Gainsbourg Forever (Integral Box Set)
• 2001: Le Cinéma de Gainsbourg (Box Set)
• 2001: I Love Serge: Electronicagainsbourg (Remix album)
• 2005: Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited (Tribute album)

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Noted songs

• "Aux armes et caetera"
• "Baby Pop"
• "Black Trombone"
• "Bonnie and Clyde"
• "Comment te dire adieu"
• "Couleur Café"
• "Dieu fumeur de havanes"
• "Élisa"
• "Hold Up"
• "Initials B.B."
• "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais"
• "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
• "La Gadoue"
• "La Javanaise"
• "Lemon Incest"
• "Les Incorruptibles"
• "Les Sucettes"
• "L'homme à Tête de Chou"
• "Lola Rastaquouère"
• "Marilou"
• "New York U.S.A."
• "Poupée de cire, poupée de son"
• "Sorry Angel"
• "Sea, Sex and Sun"
• "You're Under Arrest"
• "Mon légionnaire"
• "White and black blues" (lyrics)
• "Shanghaï (Petite fille sans âme)" Submitted by Noone.

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References

External links

• Serge Gainsbourg official site (French)
• Serge Gainsbourg all songs (French)
• Biography of Serge Gainsbourg, from Radio France Internationale
• Serge Gainsbourg at the Internet Movie Database
• Serge Gainsbourg - A Wolf in the Sheep Pen
• Inside Serge's Paris Home
• "Sweet Sixties" - "Slogan"-Review

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