Gainsbourg The Biography

Author : Gilles Verlant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966234671
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gainsbourg written by Gilles Verlant and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: François Mitterand himself proclaimed him "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mambo-influenced jazz artist to the ironic "yé-yé" beat and lush orchestration of his 1960s work to his launching of French reggae in the 1970s to the electric funk and disco of his last albums. But mourned as much as his music was Gainsbourg the man: the self-proclaimed ugly lover of such beauties as Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, the iconic provocateur whose heavy-breathing "Je t'aime moi non plus" was banned from airwaves throughout Europe and whose reggae version of the "Marseillais" earned him death threats from the right, and the dirty-old-boy wordsmith who could slip double-entendres about oral sex into the lyrics of a teenybopper ditty and make a crude sexual proposition to Whitney Houston on live television. Gilles Verlant's biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language. Drawing from numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant provides a fascinating look at the inner workings of 1950s-1990s French pop culture and the conflicted and driven songwriter, actor, director and author that emerged from it: the young boy wearing a yellow star during the German Occupation; the young art student trying to woo Tolstoy's granddaughter; the musical collaborator of Petula Clark, Juliette Greco and Sly and Robbie; the seasoned composer of the Lolita of pop albums, Histoire de Melody Nelson; the cultural icon who transformed scandal and song into a new form of delirium.

Author : Sylvie Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781900924405
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serge Gainsbourg: a Fistful of Gitanes written by Sylvie Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first English biography to capture Gainsbourg in all his contradiction and gleeful outrageousness, Simmons tells the fascinating story of the Gallic star. Drawing on hours of new interviews with his intimates-among them Jane Birkin, Sly & Robbie, Marianne Faithfull, and celebrated producer Philippe Lerichomme-Simmons describes in crackling prose the scope of Gainsbourg's achievement while doing full justice to his complicated emotional life. Simmons's work will stand as the definitive take on a dizzying genius.

Author : Felicity Chaplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526142979
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Gainsbourg written by Felicity Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sylvie Simmons
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771080425
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm Your Man written by Sylvie Simmons and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the most emigmatic, beloved, and celebrated artists of our time. Leonard Cohen's extensive and successful recent worldwide tour has demonstrated that his popularity across generations and borders has never been greater. Cohen's life is one of singular mystique. This major in-depth biography is the book Cohen's fans have been waiting for. Acclaimed writer/journalist Sylvie Simmons has interviewed more than 100 figures from Cohen's life and work, including his main muses; the women in his life -- from Suzanne and Marianne to Rebecca de Mornay and Anjani Thomas; artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, David Crosby, Judy Collins, and Philip Glass; his record producers; his closest friends, from childhood to adulthood; and many of the spiritual figures who have influenced his life. Cohen, notoriously private, has granted interviews himself. Thoroughly researched and thoughtful, penetrating and lively, fascinating and revealing of stories and facts never read before, I'm Your Man offers new perspectives on Cohen and his life. It will be one of the most talked-about books of the season, and for years to come.

Author : Sylvie Simmons
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serge Gainsbourg written by Sylvie Simmons and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in English of the priapic pop genius, drawing on new interviews to capture the debauched heart of the chain-smoking French cultural icon

Author : Darran Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623565979
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson written by Darran Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation, humour, exoticism and ultimately tragedy. Composed and arranged with the great Jean-Claude Vannier, its score of lush cinematic strings and proto-hip hop beats, combined with Serge's spoken-word poetry, has become remarkably influential across a vast musical spectrum; inspiring soundtracks, indie groups and electronic artists. In recent years, the album's reputation has grown from cult status to that of a modern classic with the likes of Beck, Portishead, Mike Patton, Air and Pulp paying tribute. How did the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, hounded during the Nazi Occupation, rise to such notoriety and acclaim, being celebrated by President François Mitterand as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire"? How did the early chanson singer evolve into a musical visionary incorporating samples, breakbeats and dub into his music, decades ahead of the curve? And what are the roots and legacy of a concept album about a Rolls Royce, a red-haired Lolita muse, otherworldly mansions, plane crashes and Cargo Cults?

Author : Alan Clayson
Publisher : Sanctuary Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781860742224
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book View from the Exterior written by Alan Clayson and published by Sanctuary Pub Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French cult figure, Serge Gainsbourg is forever synonymous with Je T'Aime -- Moi Non Plus' on which he and Jane Birkin simulated the sounds of erotic congress. But this 1969 Number One was a mere sideshow to an eye-stretching career in which he bestrode Gaelic culture as a singing composer, novelist, film director and actor. In this first full biography in English, Clayson reveals the whole, outrageous story, of this unlikely pop star: lover of icons, a natural at courting controversy via outrageous recordings.

Author : Véronique Mortaigne
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785785044
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Je t'aime written by Véronique Mortaigne and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 18-22nd FEBRUARY 2019 Marking the 50-year anniversary of the legendary banned song Je t'aime... moi non plus, Véronique Mortaigne's brilliantly-written book skilfully identifies the pairing of Gainsbourg and Birkin as an expression of the spirit of the age. Synonymous with love, eroticism, glamour, music, provocation, their affair would set France aflame as the sixties ebbed, and set in motion many of the ideas we have by now come to think of as specifically 'French'. Skipping back and forth in time, Je t'aime takes the reader from the foggy Normandy landscapes where Serge and Jane retreated, to their carefree summers on the coast. En route to their superstardom in films and music, we experience their intrigues, triangular relationships, and jealous rages, the genius and the self-torture. Tenderly told, via new interviews with key players in their story, Je t'aime details the coming together of two massive personalities, who together created a model of the rebel couple for the ages.

Author : Birkin (Jane.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serge Gainsbourg written by Birkin (Jane.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Birkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836549974
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane & Serge. a Family Album written by Andrew Birkin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This album contains, in chronological order, 160 photographs taken between 1963 and 1979 by Andrew Birkin of his sister Jane Birken, Serge Gainsbourg, and their relatives."--Preliminary page.