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Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a French poet-songwriter, singer, actor, novelist, painter and director. Gainsbourg's varied style and individuality made him diffi read more View full artist. The artful and fast-paced French biopic, “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life,” starring Eric Elmosnino, depicts Gainsbourg’s success as a pop musician and his romantic liaisons with the movie. Jane Birkin has been determined to honor the musical legacy of her late lover, Serge Gainsbourg. The British actress, model and singer took to the stage on Friday at New York City’s Beacon.

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Serge Gainsbourg (French pronunciation: sɛʁʒ ɡɛ̃sbuʁ; born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. Driver navigator keygen free download.

In a remarkable feat for a man who was not considered good looking, Serge Gainsbourg was celebrated as much for his loves as for his art. He began life in Paris as Lucien Ginsburg, the son of Jewish refugees from the 1917 Russian Revolution. Like his parents, he survived the Holocaust in hiding.

The artful and fast-paced French biopic, “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life,” starring Eric Elmosnino, depicts Gainsbourg’s success as a pop musician and his romantic liaisons with the movie superstar Brigitte Bardot and other women. He was married four times, including to the English actress and singer, Jane Birkin, who is the mother of the best known of his four children, the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. It is a bizarre curiosity that his last wife — an actress, singer and model known by the stage name of Bambou — is the granddaughter of Friedrich Paulus, the German field marshal who surrendered at Stalingrad.

Gainsbourg’s physical awkwardness is graphically represented in the film, fittingly directed by the graphic novelist and animator, Joann Sfar. A surreal doppelganger called “La Grueule” (“The Mug”), played by American actor Doug Jones, evolves from a grotesque humpty-dumpty inflated head, taken from a Vichy-era poster for an anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda movie, to a hawk-faced monstrosity with devilishly long fingernails.

Parodying Gainsbourg’s supposed ugliness, La Grueule initially appears to give the youthful protagonist a sense of transcendence over his physical self. (Kacey Mottet-Klein, who plays him as a boy is, to my eyes, rather cute, but this may be beside the point.) Yet, in virtually stalking him as an adult, La Grueule’s presence becomes sinister. He may represent Gainsbourg’s self-destructive impulses, which undermine his marriages and damage his health. Elmosnino won a César (French Oscar) for his portrayal of the adult Gainsbourg, who drank and smoked incessantly and died of a heart attack in 1991 at the age of 62.

Gainsbourg is probably best remembered for the enigmatic, sensual words and entrancing rhythm of “Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus” (“I Love You… Me Neither”), in versions recorded separately with Brigitte Bardot (1967) and Jane Birkin (1969). The lyrics include this more than suggestive line: “Je vais et je viens, entre tes reins” (“I go and I come, in between your loins”), accompanied by heavy breathing. This song is now being featured in a French television commercial for perfume, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Natalie Portman.

Sfar, the film’s writer and director, also won a César for Best First Film. His experience as a cartoonist and graphic artist is evident in the vividly colorful animation of the opening credits. Gainsbourg also began in the visual arts as a painter, performing at piano bars to finance his initial artistic passion. Also like Gainsbourg, Sfar is a French Jew.

If you’re like me, you may struggle to find a profound or moral message to this breezily-told story of a child Holocaust survivor who makes it big — but you shouldn’t bother. This is an entertaining movie about a French cultural icon whom most Americans hardly knew.

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The Life and Loves of Serge Gainsbourg

L’Homme à tête de chou is a concept album by Serge Gainsbourg, released on Philips Records in 1976.

Concept[edit]

L'Homme à tête de chou Games of thrones dragon. (1976) is a concept album by Serge Gainsbourg. Like its predecessors Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971), Vu de l'extérieur (1973) and Rock Around the Bunker (1975), the album received little attention when it was first issued.

'L’Homme à tête de chou' tells the story of a man in his forties falling in love with a rather free-minded shampoo girl. After the narrator meets the young woman at the barber shop where she works ('Chez Max coiffeur pour hommes'), he asks her out and they begin an affair ('Ma Lou Marilou'), her solo erotic games ('Variations sur Marilou'), and ultimately about Marilou's murder by the narrator, turned jealous lover after he saw her in bed with two rockers ('Meurtre à l’extincteur', 'Marilou sous la neige'), and finally his decline into madness ('Lunatic Asylum').

'Ma Lou Marilou' is inspired by a section of the first movement of Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, known as the 'Appassionata' composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.

The album was inspired by the sculpture by Claude Lalanne of a man with a cabbage for a head, which Gainsbourg had purchased and which appears on the sleeve.

History[edit]

Music genre[edit]

'Marilou Reggae' is the singer's first attempt to make a reggae song, although it's a pop song. He revisited it on his 1979 album Aux armes et cætera.

Show Gainsbourg / Bashung / Gallotta / Clavaizolle[edit]

The choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta created a contemporary dance show for Alain Bashung, with arrangements and additional music by Denis Clavaizolle. This project, initiated in 2008, was disrupted by the death of Bashung, who was to interpret the album on stage in a version slightly modified and completed by Denis Clavaizolle (to make it longer). Denis Clavaizolle tried in late 2008 to realize a satisfactory soundtrack during meetings and discussions with Bashung, with ambiances and sonorities inspired by The Doors, Mahler, and Captain Beefheart, to allow Gallotta to achieve the choreography project which he finally presented on 12 November 2008 at the MC2 in Grenoble.^[2]

About the album, Denis Clavaizolle conceptualized the additional music and the arrangements and orchestrations as a movie soundtrack evocating tension, jealousy, sex, madness, violence all along the ballet: 'je pense qu'il faut envisager cet album comme un scénario, et créer dans la musique les sentiments que l'on ressent dans le texte' ('I think this album must be seen like a scenario, and the music must reflect the feelings expressed by the words'.

The cover album by Alain Bashung was issued on 7 November 2011, on Barclay Records and became his first posthumous release.

Critical reception[edit]

In 2010, the French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 28th greatest French rock album.^[4]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Serge Gainsbourg.

Personnel[edit]

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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• Serge Gainsbourg – Vocal, jew harp, arrangement
• Alan Hawkshaw – Keyboards, arrangement

Charts[edit]

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Certifications and sales[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^http://www.discogs.com/Serge-Gainsbourg-LHomme-T%C3%AAte-De-Chou/release/572787
2. ^http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2009/11/13/pour-l-homme-a-tete-de-chou-bashung-s-est-coule-dans-la-peau-de-gainsbourg_1266757_3246.html
3. ^Neate, Wilson. 'L'Homme à tête de chou'. AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
4. ^Magazine Rolling Stone, n°18 February 2010, ISSN1764-1071
5. ^'Lescharts.com – Serge Gainsbourg – L'Homme à tête de chou'. Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
6. ^'Les Albums Or'. infodisc.fr. SNEP. Archived from the original on 18 October 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
7. ^'French album certifications – Serge G – L'Homme à tête de chou' (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.

External links[edit]

• L'Homme à tête de chou at Discogs (list of releases)
• L'Homme à tête de chou at MusicBrainz (list of releases)