Umg on behalf of universal music division mercury records. Produced by jeanclaude desmarty, the album was released on march 24, 1971 through philips records. Issued on inedits, les archives 19581981from gainsbourg forever boxset une production philips. He sent a teenage france gall up the charts singing a song about enjoying a sucker, without alerting her to the lyrics double meaning. A concept album that tells the story of an accidental meeting with a teenage melody nelson and the romance that follows, this was named by rolling stone france as the fourth greatest french rock album of all time. The intersection of gainsbourgs louche gallic pop with eruptions of lush burt bacharachstyle strings and staccato funkrock make histoire.
Despite selling poorly on first release, it now holds a huge influence on many artists of various styles. Here we look back at the serge gainsbourgs delightfully depraved magnum opus, which turns 45 years old this week. If youre a fan of the man as are air, beck, pulp, portishead, and many many others but that list somehow doesnt do him. With help from actress, amour, and inspiration jane. I just discovered serg gainsbourg through the documentary, a heros life. This item is a picture disc and comes in a plastic wallet, as pictured. This 1971 release from serge gainsbourg is considered one of his greatest and most influential.
Although famous in france for many years, he did not achieve his first no. Serge gainsbourg was born in france to russian parents. The lolitaesque pseudoautobiographical plot of the album involves the middleaged gainsbourg unintentionally colliding his rollsroyce silver ghost into teenage girl melody nelson s bicycle, and the. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and. Theres little doubt that melody nelson, a short 27 minute album released in 1971 is gainsbourgs masterpiece. With help from actress, amour, and inspiration jane birkin, arrangerconductor and coconspirator jeanclaude vannier lenfant assassins des mouches, not to mention a tight hand. Gainsbourgs varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. Serge gainsbourg april 2, 1928 march 2, 1991 was a french poetsongwriter, singer, actor, novelist, painter and director. This is a brilliant album,circa 1971, absolutely haunting, and too quickly over. Quite often, attempts fall flaccid, missing the titillating mark by a mile. Courtesy of lucien rioux and simone copfermann with the kind assistance of philippe manoeuvre and laurent didaller. So here i am and i feel, perhaps appropriately, naked. We define this particular use of the album to be a transformative commentary on the album and its content, for the purposes of extracurricular academic research.
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