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Serge Gainsbourg

Always a controversial figure, Serge Gainsbourg was a multi-platform artist working in music, literature and music... and ruffled the feathers of polite French society at almost every turn. He's best remembered for Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus, a Number 1 hit in 1969 with his young English wife, the actress Jane Birkin (but originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot), which was widely banned and caused an outrage with its explicit sexual lyrics and sound effects. Gainsbourg was brought up in Paris by Russian Jewish parents traumatised by the Nazi occupation of France and struggled in h...