#Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg

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Cette sensation insurmontable d'être l'un contre l'autre...

Même si séparés, se dire qu'une part de nous se retrouvera un jour.

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Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg (1969)

Undeniably cool and infamous to this day, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s joint effort is one of the former’s lesser works. While the arrangements and lyrics are as scintillating as one would expect Gainsbourg’s peak period, Birkin’s singing is difficult, amateurish not in a charmingly naive way but breathy, high and arguably more grating than any act of Gainsbourgian provocation.

Pick: ‘Je t'aime... Moi non plus’

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Jane Birkin “Jane B”

• Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg aka Je t'aime... moi non plus (1969)

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Vitrine iconiqueParis 20Photographie©FrançoiseLarouge

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Bon soir ❤️🌹❤️

Jane Birkin 🎶 Le moi et le je

(Lost Song)

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Remembering Jane Birkin 1946-2023

British-French singer/actress/fashion icon Jane Birkin has died at 76. Along with her then-husband Serge Gainsbourg, they did the 1969 pop album Jane Birkin / Serge Gainsbourg, which sits in my music collection and featured possibly one of the sexiest songs in history "Je t'aime… moi non plus". Even if you don't speak French, you get that it is dialogue between two lovers having sex.

Birkin on right in Blow-Up

For her acting career, she appeared as a blonde model in Michelangelo Antonioni's excellent Blow-Up, played Penny Lane in Wonderwall (featuring an awesome score from George Harrison) and in one of her last roles I saw she appeared in the Oscar-nominated short film La femme et le TGV (read my coverage in my 2017 Oscar Short Film Guide here). Birkin had three children, including singer/actress Charlotte, who I saw in concert in 2019.

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

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RIP Jane Birkin 1946-2023.

Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg (Triumph Spitfire) photo d'Andrew Birkin. - source Luis Cesar.

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Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin

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ALAIN NOGUÈS

"Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin tournent dans Cannabis", 1961.

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Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin par Richard Melloul, 1990.

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Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Kate Barry et Charlotte Gainsbourg. 1972

Photo: Andrew Birkin

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Je pense qu'il m'aime et je l'aime. Je ne peux rien faire sans son regard, pour ou contre. J'ai besoin de son regard, j'ai besoin de sa force, même si ça m'inspire d'aller contre sa volonté. Il doit être là, toujours là, il garde mes grands pieds sur terre et parfois il m'aide à m'envoler.

Jane Birkin on Serg Gainsbourg

Jane Birkin will always be France’s favourite “petite Anglaise”, but few will have even guessed at the depth of the insecurity suffered by the “little English girl”. The British-born actress and singer captured Gallic hearts when, aged 21 and the epitome of London’s Sixties cool, she took up with singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg – 20 years her senior and the bad boy of French popular music. The public was fascinated by his excesses and his outrageous behaviour – he once burned a 500 franc note live on television to protest at his tax bill and had made a reggae version of La Marseillaise – and by her Sixties style and heavily accented French.

Their turbulent relationship hit the headlines many times during a 13-year affair which saw the release of their controversial duet ‘Je t’aime… moi non plus’ (I love you…me neither), which Gainsbourg originally wrote for Brigitte Bardot, a record condemned by the pope and banned by radio stations in the UK for being sexually explicit.

The decades passed, the couple split, Gainsbourg’s drinking and smoking caught up with him, and he died, but in her adopted homeland Birkin, now dead, will always be remembered as his muse but also as a muse and style icon in her own right.

RIP Jane Birkin (1946-2023)

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Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin photographiés par Andrew Birkin

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Je t'aime... moi non plus - Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin / lyrics

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Serge Gainsbourg

photographies de Tony Frank

avec la participation de Jane Birkin, Bambou et Charlotte Gainsbourg

Seuil, Paris 2009, 168 pages, 23,8 x 27,9 cm, ISBN 9782020993463

euro 35,00

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En 1968, la maison de disques Philips fait appel à Tony Frank pour réaliser des portraits destinés à une pochette de disque. Cinq photos seront finalement retenues de cette série. Serge Gainsbourg dira plus tard que ces portraits figurent parmi ses préférés. Ce moment marque le début d’une longue collaboration, d’une relation de confiance et d’amitié. Tony photographiera régulièrement Serge chez lui rue de Verneuil, en studio, en famille et en concert. Il réalisera notamment la célèbre photographie de la pochette de Melody Nelson, son disque mythique.

Tout le talent de Tony Frank se révèle dans cet ouvrage qui se regarde comme un album de photos de famille. On y découvre des portraits chaleureux et touchants de Serge Gainsbourg et de ses proches (Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou, Lulu…) en grande partie inédits, révélant la part humaine, parfois fragile, mais toujours attachante d’un artiste hors du commun.

03/07/23

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Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg photographiés par Giancarlo Botti, 1971