Gainsbourg’s obsession with American culture continued in 1968 with a collaboration with Brigitte Bardot on the track Bonnie And Clyde. The song is a Gainsbourg classic and features an odd eerie repetitive vocal with the lyric based on a poem called The Trails End written by Bonnie Parker shortly before her death. It was released on the […]

Controversy, sexual innuendo and later on more blatant sexual matters were a thread through Gainsbourg’s work but his talent to make meaningless pap appealing was unprecedented, especially when accompanied by his inherent musical skills. Here’s Brigitte Bardot, at the time, the sexiest woman on the planet having a go at singing one of Gainsbourg’s nursery rhymes. […]