Serge Gainsbourg – Aux armes et caetera
In January 1979, at Dynamic Sounds in Kingston, Serge Gainsbourg set La Marseillaise to a Sly and Robbie rhythm.
Histoire de Melody Nelson – Rolls, bicycle, red hair, Vannier
Histoire de Melody Nelson, Gainsbourg's 1971 concept album, opens on a Rolls-Royce, a bicycle and a red-haired girl named Melody, with Vannier's orchestra.
What if Serge Gainsbourg had opened a musical in Paris in 1970?
In 1970, Gainsbourg, Birkin and Jean-Claude Vannier build Les Couloirs de verre, a Paris musical that redirects songs written before Melody Nelson.
Serge Gainsbourg – La Javanaise
In the summer of 1962, after an evening at Juliette Gréco's, Serge Gainsbourg came back the next night with La Javanaise.
Initials B.B. – Orchestral pop between London and Paris
In June 1968 Serge Gainsbourg released Initials B.B. on Philips, an orchestral-pop set cut between London and Paris with Brigitte Bardot on Bonnie and Clyde.
L’homme à tête de chou – Marilou concept with Vannier’s shadow
In November 1976 Serge Gainsbourg released L'homme à tête de chou on Philips, a Marilou concept album cut at Mercury Studios in London with Philippe Lerichomme producing.
Serge Gainsbourg – Dirty talk with an arranger’s ear
Lucien Ginsburg became Serge Gainsbourg in postwar Paris cabarets, then wrote three-minute songs that people kept repeating at home.
Serge Gainsbourg – I’m the Boy
In June 1984, at House of Music in West Orange, Serge Gainsbourg hid a Stravinsky motif inside a funk track about the night.