Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928-1991) · France · Musicians · Died at 62
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Something wrong?He wrote songs that made France argue with itself - provocative, sexual, bizarre wordplay set to whatever genre caught his ear that year. Over 550 tracks, more than a thousand covers, and a second heart attack that turned a divisive pop figure into a secular saint.
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Love on the BeatAlbum1981
Mauvaises nouvelles des étoilesAlbum1979Aux armes et cæteraAlbum1975
Rock Around the BunkerAlbum1973
Vu de l'extérieurAlbum1971
Histoire de Melody NelsonAlbum1969
Jane Birkin & Serge GainsbourgAlbum1964
Gainsbourg PercussionsAlbum1963
ConfidentielAlbum1962
N°4Album1959
Nº2Album1958
Du chant à la une !…Album1928Born2 April 1928Also in Deutsch
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YAYou're Under Arrest
LBLove on the Beat
MÉMauvaises nouvelles des étoiles
LCL'Homme à tête de chou
RBRock Around the Bunker
VEVu de l'extérieur
HNHistoire de Melody Nelson
JGJane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
BCBonnie and Clyde
IBInitials B.B.
GPGainsbourg Percussions
COConfidentiel
NN°4
LGL'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg
NNº2
DUDu chant à la une !…Awards
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Born Lucien Ginsburg on 2 April 1928, Gainsbourg started in jazz and chanson before the yé-yé wave caught him. His output wandered through rock, reggae, funk, zouk, electronica - whatever served the lyric, which leaned on puns, satire, and sex in ways that split French opinion down the middle. "Je t'aime... moi non plus" charted in the UK; "Bonnie and Clyde" did the same in Belgium. He wrote over 550 songs before dying of a second heart attack on 2 March 1991. The controversy that shadowed him alive turned to adoration after, and now he holds legendary status at home and a cult following elsewhere.
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