Serge Gainsbourg
Histoire De Melody Nelson

Though he’s likely better known as the hound-dog face of caricatured pervy Franco pop (what other recording artist would possibly want themselves phot...

Conceived by the late, great French songwriter as a tribute to his young actress girlfriend Jane Birkin, this 1971 concept disc plays like a European ...

The raw-voiced Serge Gainsbourg may have been one ugly fuck, but he sure made the ladies swoon whenever he lit up a Gitane and sang. This reissue of 1...

The album Histoire de Melody Nelson ranks among the most influential works ever released by the late French singer, poet, writer, actor, and director ...

Serge Gainsbourg already had a well-established reputation for outrage when he released Histoire De Melody Nelson in 1971. He sent a teenage France Ga...

Serge Gainsbourg had no great attachment to genre. By the time he came to rock music, in his early 40s, the French star had traced his oblique, provoc...

As much as classic French pop music is fetishized by American artists, it's somewhat remarkable at how limited access to it is in the United States. I...