Retrieved from 'Categories: Bronze Artists. Artists with MySpace profile. Wikipedia articles/Artist. Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music, he was renowned for his often provocative and scandalous releases, as well as his diverse artistic output, which embodied.

The late great Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. He was also a babe-hound while being a whisky connoisseur and swordmaster supreme! Gainsbourg's varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorise. Garmin G Tunes Installer Gta. Although famous in France for many years, he did not achieve his first No. 1 album until 1979, when he released Aux Armes et cetera more than twenty years after his music career had begun. Since the 1980s, his legacy has been firmly established. Gainsbourg is probably best know for his fantastic duet with the lovely Brit Jane Birkin: (RealPlayer) Born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris, France, the son of Russian Jewish parents who fled to France after the 1917 Bolshevik uprising.

His childhood was profoundly affected by the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, during which he and his family, as Jews, were forced to wear the yellow star and eventually flee from Paris. Before he was 30 years old, Gainsbourg was a disillusioned painter but earned his living as a piano player in bars. His ex wife, Jane Birkin recollects the beginning her affair with Gainsbourg, where he first took her to a nightclub, then to a transvestite club and afterwards to the Hilton, where he passed out in a drunken stupor. He confessed to Birkin that he had been scared of one time beau, and collaborator, uber hotty Brigitte Bardot's breasts.

Gainsbourg married Birkin when she was 19, he was 36. Birkin left Gainsbourg when pregnant with her third daughter Lou, by the film director Jacques Doillon, whom she later married. In 1969, he released what would become his most famous song in the English-speaking world, 'Je t'aime. Moi non plus,' which featured simulated sounds of female orgasm. The song appeared that year on an LP, Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg. Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot, it was released with future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out.

While Gainsbourg declared it the 'ultimate love song,' it was considered too 'hot'; the song was censored in various countries, and in France even the toned-down version was suppressed. The freaks in the Vatican made a public statement citing the song as offensive.