Released on 13/02/12. Serge Gainsbourg was known outside France
primarily for the steamy duet J'taime moi non plus but to those at home
he stood as the ultimate rebel artist. He has been described as
debauched, irreverent, misanthropic, dissolute, a provocateur, a genius,
an alcoholic, a poet, a national treasure and a romantic who handled
language with cynical humour. His poetry was compared to Rimbaud and
Baudelaire, his morality to the Marquis de Sade. He wrote and directed
four controversial movies, published a scurrilous novel, his records
were often denounced as obscene and he was perpetually embroiled in
scandal, whether for turning up drunk on a TV show and offering to F***
fellow guest Whitney Houston, recording a reggae version of Le
Marseillaise or burning a 500 franc banknote on prime-time
television.Gainsbourg was surely the only man ever to have written hit
songs about the joys of incest, sodomy, motorcycles and cigarettes and
to still be awarded the Chevalier Des Arts et Lettres, his country’s
highest artistic honour. Summarising his approach to life and art, he
said: "Without controversy it would all be very boring. For me,
provocation is oxygen."Brigitte Bardot the very name signals instant
revolution in films, fashion, lifestyles and sexuality. She is
undoubtedly one of the most famous French women of all time, indeed
there has rarely been any woman of any one land commanding so much
impact upon her times reverberating still in her retire-ment, as
film-makers, actresses, designers and jet-setters, continue to pour
through the various doors of permissivity she has sundered with
immeasurable elan.In 1967, Bardot and Gainsbourg would record the
original Je t'aime moi non plus and conduct a clandestine affair. At the
start of the sixties, however, while Gainsbourg was.......
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