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- ...

He may not have been terrifying, but his rap sheet is. His music inspires chills, but of a different kind — more soul-penetrating than spine-tingling. His eccentricity, while alarming, lends itself to ...

Last week, Seattle-based Light in the Attic Records became the first label to release Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson in the United States. Knowing this, the question is: Why didn’t ...

He never really left. A hero in his home-country, beloved to foreigners we now call "hipsters" since before The Bollock Brothers covered his "Harley David Son Of A Bitch." A carefully disheveled ...

This depraved, sordid story is told on a song-by-song basis by its provocative creator Serge Gainsbourg on his 1976 album L'Homme à tête de chou. The narrative of the album whose title translates as ...

Actors who think they can sing are commplace. But unlike other truant thespians – Scarlett Johansson with her wretched album of Tom Waits covers, say – Charlotte Gainsbourg has what you might call a ...

“I don’t think the French’s taste in rock music is that good most of the time,” Mick Harvey says with a laugh. “There’s not a great history of really high-quality rock there. They do a lot of things ...

“I’ve succeeded at everything except my life.” Somehow, this statement rings true for the man who coined it, Serge Gainsbourg. Provocative, clever, intriguing and singular are just some of the words ...

Serge Gainsbourg would have turned 85 on April 2, 2014. (Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikimedia Commons) French musical oddity Serge Gainsbourg, who passed away in 1991, would have turned 85 on Wednesday, April ...

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 ...

The time capsule Paris home of Serge Gainsbourg, one of France's most notorious singer-songwriters, will finally open to the public on 20 September, three decades after the musician's death. The house ...