La Javanaise – Serge Gainsbourg: Written overnight for Juliette Gréco
In the summer of 1962, after an evening at Juliette Gréco's, Serge Gainsbourg came back the next night with La Javanaise.
I’m the Boy – Serge Gainsbourg: Stravinsky under a New Jersey funk track
In June 1984, at House of Music in West Orange, Serge Gainsbourg hid a Stravinsky motif inside a funk track about the night.
Aux armes et caetera – Serge Gainsbourg: A reggae Marseillaise cut in Kingston
In January 1979, at Dynamic Sounds in Kingston, Serge Gainsbourg set La Marseillaise to a Sly and Robbie groove.
Histoire de Melody Nelson – Rolls, bicycle, red hair, Vannier
A Rolls-Royce, a bicycle, a red-haired girl named Melody: Histoire de Melody Nelson opens Gainsbourg's 1971 concept with Vannier's orchestra.
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 turned three-minute songs into arguments that followed people home.