Le trou (French Edition)
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A ban by the BBC and the Vatican helped it sell more than 4m copies to date worldwide and precipitate a mini baby boom as the 60s became the 70s. If Birkin was the defining relationship of Gainsbourg's life, her arrival was timely, too.
Nursing a broken heart after amorous assignations with Bardot came to an abrupt end, Gainsbourg did what any other shameless, prolific songwriter would do — he wrote an album all about it. Initials BB was conceptually lamentable, though the title track is a banger.
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Gainsbourg was overtly larcenous where the classics were concerned, co-opting hook, line and sinker from Chopin for Jane Birkin's glorious Jane B. More shamefully he made what would now be called a world music album, 's Percussions, and lifted three songs from Babatunde Olatunji's Drums of Passion, adding his own French words but forgetting to credit Olatunji.
In , Gainsbourg had his first heart attack. Forever the attention seeker, he called a press conference around his hospital bed in order to announce that he intended to smoke and drink more.
One of Gainsbourg's last truly great songs — of which there had been many — the expressed sentiments of regret at the ending of a fictitious relationship could just as easily be interpreted as the fears of a man suddenly deeply aware of his own mortality. If, come the end of the 70s, people thought Gainsbourg was a spent force they could think again.
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The album Aux Armes et caetera was as welcome as it was unexpected, a collaboration with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare that sent reggae into the mainstream in France and sold a millions copies, though not everyone was happy with a Jew reinterpreting the words of La Marseillaise aided and abetted by two black Jamaicans for the title track. The far right took issue in the press and called for Gainsbourg's citizenship to be revoked.
Death threats ensued, then paratroopers crashed a gig in Strasbourg with the intention of silencing the singer , and with the threat of violence palpable, Serge sent his band home. Cutting a lonely figure on stage, he sang the national anthem a cappella. The patriots assembled could only join in and salute what was ironically intended as a chanson of rebellion in the first place.
Characteristically, the scallywag had pulled victory from the jaws of defeat once again.
La Javanaise By Gainsbourg's career as a frontman was floundering. It featured a mock interview with a Westerner talking about his first experience of being cursed at by Thai people.
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