A quarter century that Serge Gainsbourg left us. He left us 17 studio albums, 4 live opus, nearly fifty B.O for film where it appeared about thirty times as well as five films made by him. Besides some works such as the novel “Yevgeny Sokolov,” and a handful of scandals in the artistic happening-like.
Therefore, impossible to trace some lines in the immensity of the work of Lucien Ginsburg, his real name, though carried away by the Grim Reaper just 62 years. It is a totally arbitrary manner that “Obs” chose 7 Key dates in the career of the genius songwriter and performer.
1958 the Puncher des Lilas
with this song Serge Gainsbourg entered the public’s ears. First success of Serge Gainsbourg, who is none other than the first track of their debut album, “Singing in the A!” March 29, 1958, Gainsbourg made his baptism of fire on television with this song in the show “At home tonight.” Presented by the animator Michèle Arnaud, it shows a Gainsbourg intimidated by the camera and already complexed by his unusual physique.
1965 Eurovision
Mid-1960s: Gainsbourg went successfully to conquer a younger audience with Françoise Hardy and “How do you say Goodbye.” And especially thanks to the voice of France Gall, to which he entrusted in 1964 the songs “Do not listen to the idols” and “Forget the girls”.
The following year, the latter to conquer Eurovision (under Luxembourg flag) and won with “Wax doll, her doll.” Some saw in this kind of jingle borrowings Prestissimo of the Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor op.2-1 Beethoven. Several times this pianist son musician drew from the classical repertoire for his compositions.
1968 The meeting with Jane Birkin
This is thanks to the filming of “Slogan” drama Pierre Grimblat which portrays the complicated romance of a director of advertising films with a young English girl, Jane Birkin Serge meeting. The lightning between the singer-actor upset by her romance with Bardot and baby doll does not appear immediately, Gainsbourg mocking emphasis british Jane sulking and even a dinner with her at Maxim organized by Grimblat. But thanks to a slow, the ice is broken. Jane says:
I trained on the dance floor, and there intimidated, he stepped on my foot. As it was lovely! Coming from an arrogant, clumsiness has a seductive power over me “
The mythical couple is born, sealed with love and artistic complicity: it re-registers.” I love you me either ” , originally written for BB one year earlier, and interprets the equally sulphurous “erotic 69 year” a decade of love will give birth to Charlotte and many other songs. “Ex fan des sixties”, “Baby Alone in Babylon “,” feints Amours “… Even after the break-up in 1980.
1976 the cabbage-headed man
Dedicated by “Rolling Stone” as one of the best albums of french rock, the concept album “the man with the cabbage head” has not yet received an enthusiastic crowd to its release in 1976. It will take years for this story of passionate madness between a scandal sheet reporter and a sassy carpet cleaner is recognized as a masterpiece.
1979 La Marseillaise reggae
Inspired by the abbreviation of the chorus in the dictionary,” Aux armes et cetera, “reggae version of La Marseillaise, was a success and a fight for Serge Gainsbourg. Success, since gold. Fighting since pretext for a virulent attack by Michel Droit in the columns of “Figaro Magazine”, where the future academician even suggests that the singer fuels hatred of the Jewish community over what he sees as a provocation.
Gainsbourg retorted with another article entitled “We have no right to be as con”. But he must also deal with veterans. In early January 1980, he is alone on stage – his Jamaican musicians left after a bomb threat in their hotel – Strasbourg facing paras. Gainsbourg then proclaims:
I am a rebellious … and that restored La Marseillaise its original meaning. I ask you to sing with me! “
Before singing a cappella the national anthem before the Red Berets at attention. The following year, new hand he acquires an auction Rouget de Lisle original script …
1984 the case of the ticket
March 11, 1984 , show “7 on 7″ on TF1. in this great weekly appointment, Gainsbourg pulls a 500 franc note that ignites with his lighter to three quarters. He then hears illustrate “racketeering tax” that the taxing 74%
He added, before setting fire to what is a very large sum for the time. “I know it is illegal what I’ll do.” although he says. “it’s my money, I’m not care,” the gesture ruffles the hair of many crisis-hit French
1988 The concert at the Zenith
in March 1988, Serge Gainsbourg is 60 and has his last stage performance. It is the Zenith, to an audience of fans of the first hour but also kids, which had the gift of touch. Accompanied by American musicians and singers, he reinvents his repertoire, “Who is in, who is out” to excellent “Dispatch Box” by even offering a version of “My Legionnaire” created by Piaf. A stage on which he then brought his son Lucien (then two years old), born of her romance with Bamboo.
Jean-Frédéric Tronche
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