Old Gainsbourg has become
New editions, films and unpublished remember two decades of the singer's death
ANTONIO JIMENEZ BARCA - Paris - 23/01/2011
- Bonnie and Clyde (1968). A night of too much alcohol and little success led to the item title track. It was the first meeting between Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, the other voice on this album .- Jane Birkin / Serge Gainsbourg (1969). The album went on record for the song Je t? aime ... moi non plus. A song about love and sex that the couple singing on a bed with final orgasm included .- Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971). It tells the story of a middle-aged man comes upon a lolita. A partly autobiographical work produced by the composer Jean-Claude Vannier .- Aux Armes et cetera (1979). Reggae version of the French anthem La Marseillaise, with Robby Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar and Rita Marley. It took death threats from war veterans Algeria .- L 'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg (1961). Third album orchestrated and arranged by Alain Goraguer, French pianist who also collaborated with Boris Vian. Highlights, La chanson de Prévert.
Simply approach your usual Parisian house has been empty for 20 years, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to realize that Serge Gainsbourg is telling: blinds, fence, wall, door ... everything is crammed with graffiti, graffiti, drawings, phrases ("you were the best, you were handsome, you were an artist.") Many are recent, and all belong to followers of this artist ugly and big ears, who seduced the most beautiful women of the era, including Brigitte Bardot, shy to the disease in its early and provocative obscene and vulgar at the end of his career, he died alone while having a nap in the same house on March 2, 1991. France prepares to celebrate the 20 th anniversary: \u200b\u200ball songs will be published again in a series of 20 CD will be released on 28 February. Previously, an anthology of his writings were published in a volume of 700 pages done by reference to his biographer, Gilles Verlant. In parallel, radiate exhumed and unpublished supposedly old issues: a version in an essay accompanying the singer Dani, for which he composed the song Like a boomerang.
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Old Gainsbourg has become, then, with his Gitanes and a cocktail of something in hand, next to the prettiest girl ever. The truth is that Gainsbourg was already there. Last year, a film director Joann Sfar (Gainsbourg, life of a hero), returned from his fame and since then, as in good times, it has not fallen from the pages of French newspapers or screens television.
Gainsbourg, known in Spain especially for its famous, and scandalous in its time, "Je t'aime ... moi non plus, played with Jane Birkin, the track more explicitly sexual has ever made, was born in Paris in 1928. The territory of childhood was Montmartre. He wanted to be a painter, but to make a living playing the piano in the slums of transvestites Pigalle. Obsessed with success, making money, fame and recognition, he began composing. By Juliette Gréco then offered a gem in a song entitled The Javanaise, he also played in his time with his style somewhat self-conscious and timid then. His first recording dates from 1957 and TV to remember in a documentary broadcast on France 2 months ago Gainsbourg called hidden faces, Greco threw his hands to his head, asserting: "It was scary." After years of appearing to Jacques Brel and earning fame or money, left the stage and devoted himself to writing songs for others. In 1965, almost adolescent writes for France Gall Poupée de cire, poupée de son with which it wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1965. Farewell to the costumes and Existentialism: welcome to the world Yeye, much more profitable and happy
met Bardot in 1967. They fell in love in a restaurant. She asked one night, according to legend, he composed the most beautiful love song in the world and he rescued a melody he had used years ago to a soundtrack and wrote Je t'aime ... moi non plus. The recorded together. Bardot's version is more explosive than Birkin. Both the actress, married by then, seeing the monumental scandal to be held in France at the time, asked his lover who withdrew from the market. Gainsbourg, as ugly as a gentleman, agreed. Two years later he recorded again, this time with his then wife, singer and actress Jane Birkin. The song catapulted them both forever.
Gainsbourg recorded over 19 albums, directed four films, participated as an actor in many others, composed hundreds of songs and lived a strange moment of glory and redemption in 1979, in a concert in Strasbourg, a group of military and members of the French far-right fierce occupied the front rows of the room. They came prepared to prevent Gainsbourg interpret his latest hit, Aux armes et cetera, a reggae version of La Marseillaise, considered by many an outrage. Seeing the big picture, the singer told his musicians dreadlocks not get out of the bus. Took the stage alone even though the owner of the room warned of the danger. He said: "Those who have kept the concert have been returned to its original meaning La Marseillaise." Then, this apolitical man with a reputation for cool and degenerated, probably drunk, raised his right arm, the cigar-and gaining dignity and greatness unexpected began to sing a solo anthem of France. Military amazed watching him could not help but
squared.
drunk, psychologically depressed, abandoned by Birkin, depressed, emaciated, his last years were a nightmare sometimes broadcast on television, where he continued playing the character was created provocative: even burned a bill of 500 francs in direct protest taxes paid or proposed to Whitney Houston to sleep with him.
died at age 63 in his house forever, she bought to live with Brigitte Bardot and where he lived with Jane Birkin, after have tried unsuccessfully to get rid of alcohol and snuff. Since then her admirers wrote sentences in your door.
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