Originally published in Uncut Take 287 (April 2021 issue)... Originally published in Uncut Take 287 (April 2021 issue)… Released in March 1971, Histoire De Melody Nelson did little to trouble the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors to Paris will soon be able to explore the former home of French singer and actor Serge Gainsbourg, which has been ...

When Serge Gainsbourg, one of France's most influential singer-songwriters, died aged 62 on March 2, 1991, then-president François Mitterrand described him as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire. He ...

I’ll never forget the moment I first experienced the pop rapture of Serge Gainsbourg. It was sometime in the mid-’90s (I tend to catch up to stuff rather late — I didn’t hear the Velvet Under- ...

On August 28 there is a Serge Gainsbourg Tribute at the Hollywood Bowl, part of the successful KCRW World Festival series. The artists are mostly non-Francophones, with a few exceptions (Victoria ...

During the '90s, discovering Serge Gainsbourg was a record geek rite of passage. His album covers were tantalizing—Histoire De Melody Nelson, the 1971 LP that may very well be his best, suggested ...

Number 5 bis rue de Verneuil, where iconic French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg lived for more than 20 years until the end of his life, has remained virtually untouched since he died suddenly ...

Navigating to Carnegie Hall from the ground-level library of the Viceroy hotel is a straight shot: Hang a left out the front door and stroll half a block. But the old line about practice, practice, ...

On March 2, 1991, Serge Gainsbourg went to sleep in his bed on the second floor of his house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil in Paris and never woke up. A second heart attack killed him at age 62. For all of ...

Sent to France in 1968 on an assignment to photograph potential locations for an upcoming Stanley Kubrick film, Andrew Birkin soon turned his lens on his younger sister Jane and her new beau Serge ...

Cartoonist Joann Sfar’s name may not mean much in the United States, but in France he’s nearly as revered as the pop icon at the center of his directorial debut. “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life” delivers a ...