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. […]
The In Deep Music archive goes controversial and posts Serge Gainsbourg’s Les Sucettes (Lollipops) as performed by the unknowing teenage France Gall. This was the beginning of Gainsbourg’s controversial arc that made him a legend in France. Sexual exploitation provokes rage in all of us, as does torture and any humiliation or disrespect of human dignity […]
Although awards events are low on my priorities list, the results are often helpful in discovering the new. This is especially true in the case of the Cannes Film Festival. (Photo – Serge and Jane, Cannes in 1969). It originally came into being in 1946 to compete with the Venice Film Festival although the date […]