Serge Gainsbourg
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Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg: Jane Sighs Her Way To Charts!
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 August 1969
IT'S ALL VERY well for people to scream and shout that the BBC won't play their records enough, thus giving them no chance of becoming ...
Deep Breathing: Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (Fontana)
Review by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 6 September 1969
THE DEEP-BREATHING GIRL, Jane Birkin, gets the boys breathless with her panting contributions to the lovely tune and deep-voiced singing of Serge Gainsbourg in 'Je ...
At Home with Sounds of Love star Jane
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 September 1969
IT'S ALL VERY well to have a public image of a fun-loving, "anything goes" girl about town, but in private life things can be very ...
Jane Birkin: That Was The Week That Was...
Report by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 18 October 1969
JANE BIRKIN: the inside story of what happened when the BBC found her at Number One... and the BBC-TV programme that played the record with ...
Banned — Why?: What Turns Censors On…
Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976
It's Donna Summer at the moment, but the Beatles, Stones even Lena Horne have all run into radio censorship. So this week, MM examines that ...
Old Cabbage Head Is Back: Serge Gainsbourg
Retrospective by Paul Gorman, MOJO, August 1996
"I WOULD LIKE to fuck 'er." With these six words, slurred in the heaviest of French accents, Serge Gainsbourg sealed his reputation as the scourge ...
Retrospective by RJ Smith, Spin, March 1997
SERGE GAINSBOURG was an unrepentant slave to lust and liquor. He recorded 'Lemon Incest' with his then 13-year-old daughter — in the video, they sang ...
Serge Gainsbourg: A Rake's Progress
Retrospective by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 2001
IF YOU WALK into the Montparnasse cemetery, the first thing you see is the enormous stone double bed where Charles Pigeon – the inventor of ...
Jane Birkin: A Legend In Her Own T'aime
Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 12 February 2001
In 1969, Jane Birkin shocked the world. Now her heavy breathing is back. ...
Intoxicated Man: The Life and Times of Serge Gainsbourg
Retrospective by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, March 2001
AN ARTISTIC DEMAGOGUE flaunting a reputation that was an unholy cross between Warhol, Dylan and the Marquis De Sade, Serge Gainsbourg performed a decadent waltz ...
The Tender Pervert: Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful Of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons (Helter Skelter)
Book Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 2001
A fine new biography brings the louche Gallic genius to life ...
Jane Birkin: Je T’Aime… Moi Aussi!
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 24 January 2003
FOR THOSE of you who missed it, the general premise of the current TV ad for Kronenberg 1664 lager is as follows: If Britain were ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, May 2003
THE REMAINS of an English breakfast stand on a table, and several bags are strewn around the room – one of them a well-worn example ...
Comment by Nick Kent, The Guardian, 15 April 2006
THROUGHOUT MY CAREER as a music journalist, I've often found myself sharing the same orbit as some of the more maladjusted talents of the late ...
Serge Gainsbourg: Behold The Dirty Old Man
Report and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, May 2006
Fifteen years after he smoked his last Gitanes, Serge Gainsbourg goes international. ...
Review by Andrew Stafford, The Guardian, 23 June 2016
Two decades after Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants, Nick Cave's right-hand man returns to Serge Gainsbourg's oeuvre to explore even stranger corners. ...
Gaz Coombes: The World's Strongest Fan
Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, July 2018
Ever been curious about what's pumping on Gaz Coombes' stereo? RC's Jamie Atkins was, so he headed to Oxfordshire to find out. ...
see also Jane Birkin
see also Charlotte Gainsbourg
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