Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg (1981)

Serge Gainsbourg [ gɛ̃zˈbur ] (* April 2, 1928 as Lucien Ginsburg in Paris ; † March 2, 1991 ibid) was a French chansonnier , film actor, composer and writer. After his death, he is considered one of the most influential and creative singer-songwriters (French: auteur-compositeur-interprète ) of his era in France .

Gainsbourg significantly influenced French pop music, but also cinema and literature . He wrote the scripts and score for over forty films. He often appeared provocative in public and cultivated the image of the brilliant artist.

Childhood and youth

Gainsbourg was born the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. His father, Joseph (Iossip) Ginsburg, was born in Charkow in the Ukraine ( Russian Empire ) in 1898 . He was interested in the fine arts and studied piano at the conservatory . His mother was the singer Olga Besman, a native of the Crimea . In 1919, Joseph and Olga Ginsburg fled Russian Bolshevism via Istanbul and Marseille to Paris. Joseph was a piano player in bars and cabarets . The family lived in simple neighborhoods in Paris, Lucien received classical piano training from his father. He also tried to interest his son in art painting. His comrades teased Lucien in elementary school by calling him Ginette because he was shy and looked like a girl. Lucien enrolled at the Académie Montmartre as early as 1940 and took part in the lessons of the two post-impressionists Charles Camoin and Jean Puy . Looking back on his childhood, Gainsbourg described himself as the "sad and strict boy".

During the war years and the German occupation of France in World War II , the family moved to the countryside. As a Jew, Gainsbourg was also forced to wear the Jewish star. After the war the family returned to Paris. After graduating from high school, Lucien enrolled at a university but never graduated. The 19-year-old had few friends but was in close contact with an old Catalan poet who lived in Clichy and called himself Puig i Ferrara . In the years 1948/1949 he did his military service in the 93 ^e régiment d'infantry from. Around this time, Lucien met his first wife Elisabeth Levitsky, who worked for Georges Hugnet as a secretary and had contacts with various other surrealistic artists and was a mannequin . It was Elisabeth who brought Lucien Salvador Dalí closer. They married on November 3, 1951 and divorced in October 1957.

Career

Until the age of 30, Gainsbourg lived from occasional assignments and work. He gave lessons in drawing and singing. His main occupation was painting. He admired Francis Bacon , Fernand Léger and Gustave Courbet . He learned to paint with André Lhote and Fernand Léger and was friends with Salvador Dalí . It was not until 1958 that Boris Vian put him away from painting and led him to chanson.

In 1957 he accompanied the singer Michèle Arnaud on the piano during several appearances in various Parisian nightclubs. The artist heard chansons from her companion and sang them during the joint performances. In 1958 she also recorded some of his songs on vinyl, making her the first of many artists to interpret Gainsbourg's chansons.

Confirmed by this success, Gainsbourg composed a large number of chansons and a revue.

Gainsbourg wrote songs for a number of singers. In 1965 France Gall finally won the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 with an interpretation of his composition Poupée de cire, poupée de son . This made Gainsbourg popular with the young Yéyé fans, the French followers of beat music , and promoted his career as an interpreter, since from 1966 he increasingly switched to pop music and thus appealed to a wider, but above all younger, audience.

He had his greatest success as an interpreter in a duet with Jane Birkin , with whom he published his song Je t'aime… moi non plus in 1969 . Je t'aime… became a worldwide hit and outraged moralists, including the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano , who described the song and the pleasurable moaning clearly heard on it as “shameful obscenity”. Gainsbourg had previously recorded the title with Brigitte Bardot . The work was not published, however, as Bardot, out of consideration for her marriage to Gunter Sachs, found the song too daring and asked Gainsbourg not to bring it out. It wasn't until 1986 that she gave her consent to publish the recording.

The popularity and success of the Je t'aime… scandal prompted Gainsbourg in 1971 to release another erotic song, La décadanse , sung again in a duet with Jane Birkin.

In the concept album Histoire de Melody Nelson , Serge Gainsbourg tells the story of 15-year-old Melody, played and sung by Jane Birkin, who is hit by a man, Serge Gainsbourg, in a Rolls-Royce (Ballade de Melody Nelson) . He falls in love with the young girl (Valse de Melody) , spends his best time with her (L'Hôtel particulier) and finally loses her in a plane crash (Cargo culte) . The album, which Gainsbourg composed with the musician and arranger Jean-Claude Vannier , was not even 28 minutes long and was filmed in full.

After a heart attack in 1973, Gainsbourg brought out more concept albums. In 1975 Rock around the bunker was published , where he dealt with the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II , his Jewish origins and his experiences with the SS . In 1976, L'Homme à tête de chou, a surrealist love story followed, in which the woman is finally killed while her lover and murderer ends up in a closed institution.

Serge Gainsbourg

Musically, Gainsbourg broke new ground in 1979 when he turned to reggae . With musicians from the band Black Uhuru and Bob Marley's accompanists, the I-Threes , he recorded the album Aux armes et cætera in Kingston (Jamaica) . Many French found his reggae version of their national anthem La Marseillaise , which he released in 1979 as the single Aux armes et cætera , as a scandal .

Also in 1979 Serge Gainsbourg went on tour again for the first time since 1963 to present his songs live. His performance in Strasbourg in 1980, when numerous paratroopers from the French army tried to prevent him from playing the Marseillaise as reggae, gained fame . Gainsbourg went on stage without his musicians and sang the original a cappella with the audience. Further tours followed in 1985 and 1988.

From the late 1970s on, Gainsbourg created and perfected his alter ego Gainsbarre , the smoker and drinker he described in his song Ecce Homo . He was the counterpart of the Gainsbourg's life, which was marked by self-doubt. However, Gainsbarre increasingly took possession of Gainsbourg in the course of the 1980s, who now had to be hospitalized several times because of the consequences of his alcoholism .

From October 2008 to March 2009, the Paris Cité de la musique Gainsbourg dedicated a large exhibition, in which pieces from the private collection of his daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg were shown for the first time . a. the manuscript of the Marseillaise , which Serge Gainsbourg bought at auction in 1981, and the sculpture L'Homme à tête de chou , which inspired him to write his album.

Provocations and scandals

• In 1966, 18-year-old France Gall sang the song Les sucettes , which is about a girl and her constant lollipop , but can also be understood as a description of oral sex . The singer emphasized in retrospect that she did not recognize the ambiguity of the song, otherwise she would never have sung it.
• The duet Je t'aime… moi non plus with Jane Birkin was in parts more moaned than sung by both duet partners. The song was indexed at times and caused controversial discussions.
• Thirty years after the end of World War II, Gainsbourg released Rock Around the Bunker , an album that linked Nazis to rock music and provoked Uruguay with titles like Nazi Rock and SS .
• In 1979 Gainsbourg sang the French national anthem La Marseillaise as a reggae version Aux armes et cætera , which outraged many French. The following tour was overshadowed by numerous threats and calls for boycotts from indignant traditionalists and nationalists.
• In 1980 Gainsbourg published the novella Evguénie Sokolov (German Die Kunst des Furzens ), a frivolous artist's life that traces the curse and blessing of genius using the example of a dying painter.
• In protest against the French taxes, Gainsbourg burned a 500-franc note on French television in 1984, a criminal offense in France that also brought Gainsbourg the indignation of many less well-off.
• With his then twelve-year-old daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg sang the duet Lemon Incest in 1984 , a song about incest between father and daughter. In the accompanying video, Charlotte lay in bed wearing a nightgown, while father Serge posed with a bare torso and jeans.
• The film Charlotte for Ever made headlines in 1986 when Charlotte Gainsbourg was just 15 years old. Father Serge Gainsbourg was not only a writer, but also a director and leading actor in the film. This film also dealt with incest.
• In a French television show in 1986, after a performance by Whitney Houston , the drunk Gainsbourg announced in front of the astonished singer: "I want to fuck her!"

music

Gainsbourg began as an accompanist, playing the piano and guitar. He brought the first release under his name in 1958 under the title Du chant à la une! ... out. The album was not a great commercial success, but contained the hit Le poinçonneur des Lilas , which is about a ticket clipper for the Paris Metro. In the following years, Gainsbourg was in demand primarily as a composer and lyricist, less as an interpreter. Above all, his composition La javanaise - sung by Juliette Gréco and later by himself - attracted the general public's attention and became one of his most famous titles. His phase of the early 1960s, which was very influenced by jazz , culminated in the album Gainsbourg confidentiel (1963). In 1964 he brought some African rhythms to Gainsbourg percussions , a. a. the often-covered piece Couleur café . This album is heavily influenced by Babatunde Olatunji's LP Drums of Passion (1959); two pieces, Joanna and New York - USA , have been taken over from Olatunji without mentioning the source, albeit with a new French text. His breakthrough as an interpreter was the pop album Initials BB (1968), on which Bonnie and Clyde , a duet with Brigitte Bardot, and the playful comic strip can be heard in addition to the hit of the same name . This was also where his preference for classical music came into play. The chorus of the song Initials BB is based on a passage from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 From the New World .

Until the end of his life, Serge Gainsbourg succeeded time and again in creatively integrating and further developing the most diverse musical styles and directions. In addition to the classic, e.g. B. in the piece Lemon Incest (1984) sung together with his daughter Charlotte , which is based on an étude by Chopin , Gainsbourg brought jazz, z. B. Gainsbourg confidentiel (1964), Pop, e.g. B. Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg (1969), Reggae - e.g. B. Aux armes et cætera (1979) and Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles (1981), and rock albums, e.g. B. Rock Around The Bunker (1975), "classic" French chansons, e.g. B. La javanaise (1963), disco songs, e.g. B. Sea Sex and Sun (1978), concept albums such as Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) and L'Homme à tête de chou (1976) as well as numerous erotic to erotically aggressive songs, e.g. B. Je t'aime… moi non plus (1969), La décadanse (1971) and Love on the Beat (1984). His musical style cannot therefore be narrowed down. What all of his songs have in common, however, are enormously expressive texts, which are often characterized by masterful word and sound games, haunting images, unexpected twists and turns, and sometimes provocative utterances.

Numerous Gainsbourg songs deal with the death of women. In Cargo Culte (1971), South American natives use cultic acts to crash an airplane in which the beloved is killed; La noyée (1972) treats suicide just like Sorry Angel (1984), whereby the (partly) guilt of the narrator in La noyée implicitly, in Sorry Angel very explicitly. In the songs Meurtre à l'extincteur and Marilou sous la neige from the album L'Homme à tête de chou (1976), the woman is finally murdered by her jealous lover with the fire extinguisher, as the title of the first-mentioned song suggests.

Movies

Gainsbourg starred in numerous films, which are of very different quality. Gainsbourg starred with Jane Birkin in the 1969 film Slogan by Pierre Grimblat , and other joint films such as Cannabis ( Angels of Violence ) followed. The latter was tailored entirely to the “dream couple” Birkin / Gainsbourg. More interesting than such appearances are his own directorial work and, above all, his film music compositions. His films Je t'aime (1976) and Charlotte forever (1986) have strong autobiographical traits and - although they were anything but commercial successes - are masterpieces of French art cinema, which, despite their content-wise discussion, are characterized above all by their aesthetic design .

Gainsbourg has had success as a film music composer since 1960. Between 1960 and 1985 he contributed the soundtrack to 27 films. Many of his best-known titles come from films, such as L'Eau à la bouche (1960) from the film of the same name, Ne dis rien (1968) in a duet with Anna Karina from the film Anna , Requiem pour un con (1967) from the film Le Pacha with Jean Gabin and Manon (1968) from the film Manon 70 .

A representative selection from Gainsbourg's oeuvre as a film composer has been available since 2001 with the 3-CD box Le Cinéma de Gainsbourg .

In 2010 the feature film Gainsbourg - The man who loved women (original title: Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) ) by Joann Sfar was released . This largely follows Gainsbourg's life, without claiming a real portrait of the artist, and comes up with numerous surrealistic elements. The title role was taken on by the French actor Éric Elmosnino , who won the French César film award for his portrayal . Lucy Gordon as Jane Birkin, Laetitia Casta as Brigitte Bardot and Anna Mouglalis as Juliette Gréco can also be seen in other roles .

Private life

Serge Gainsbourg's house on rue Verneuil in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of Paris

Serge Gainsbourg, who was said to have had numerous relationships with women in French show business, was married twice and had a total of four children with three different women.

In 1951 Serge Gainsbourg married Elisabeth Levitsky, the daughter of an emigrated Russian aristocrat. The marriage lasted until 1957 and remained childless.

In 1964 Gainsbourg married Françoise-Antoinette Pancrazzi, known as Béatrice. His daughter Natacha (* 1964) and his son Paul (* 1968) come from this relationship, although Paul was born more than two years after their parents divorced.

In 1968 Gainsbourg met the English actress Jane Birkin . They became a couple in 1969 and lived together until 1980. Their daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg was born in 1971 and grew up with Kate Barry , Birkin's daughter from his first marriage to the composer John Barry .

His last son, Lucien Gainsbourg, called Lulu, was born in 1986. His mother is the French singer Bambou (actually Caroline Paulus, a great niece of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus ).

Gainsbourg, who was a heavy smoker all his life and often performed under the influence of alcohol in the last years of his life, died on March 2, 1991 of a heart attack . He was buried next to his parents in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris with great public sympathy . His grave is one of the most visited and is regularly decorated with flowers, poems and pictures. His fans also decorate the grave with cigarettes, preferably Gainsbourg's favorite brand Gitanes without a filter, metro tickets alluding to his song Le poinçonneur des Lilas and whiskey glasses.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
1958	You chant à la une! ...	FR137 gold (1 week)FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2001
1969	Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg	FR128 gold (2 weeks)FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2016 with Jane Birkin
1971	Histoire de Melody Nelson	FR56 gold (13 weeks)FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2001
1976	L'homme à tete de chou	FR85 gold (5 weeks)FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2001
1979	Aux armes et caetera	FR29 platinum (23 weeks)FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only started in 2001 with The Revolutionaries
1981	Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles	FR47 gold (11 weeks)FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only recorded in 2003 with Bob Marley's background band the I-Threes

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More studio albums

• No. 2 (1959)
• L'étonnant Serge Gainsbourg (1961)
• No. 4 (1962)
• Gainsbourg confidentiel (1963)
• Gainsbourg percussions (1964)
• Initials BB (1968)
• Vu de l'extérieur (1973)
• Rock around the bunker (1975)
• Love on the beat (1984, FR:platinum)
• You're under arrest (1987, FR:platinum)

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
1963	Théâtre des Capucines	FR141 (1 week) FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2001
1986	Gainsbourg Live	FR136 (1 week) FR	BE W77 (4 weeks) BE W	-	Chart entry in FR and BEW only started in 2015 1985 at Casino de Paris
2006	Gainsbourg et cætera - Live au Palace	FR50 (8 weeks) FR	-	-

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More live albums

• Enregistrement public au Théâtre Le Palace (1980)
• Le Zénith de Gainsbourg (1989, recorded in 1988 at the Zénith in Paris , FR:× 2Double platinum )

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
1991	De Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre	FR171 × 2 Double gold (1 week)FR	BE W9 (11 weeks) BE W	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2016; in BEW only 2 CDs in 1995
1997	Comic strip	FR63 (19 weeks) FR	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2009 pop compilation
1998	Classé X - Les 20 chansons les plus "sexe" de Gainsbourg	-	BE W16 (5 weeks) BE W	-	Compilation of erotic songs
2001	Gainsbourg ... Forever	-	BE W6 (18 weeks) BE W	CH71 (8 weeks) CH	Case with all 16 studio albums , numerous bonus tracks and the Inédits CD with unreleased material
2006	Les 100 plus belles chansons	-	BE W31 (16 weeks) BE W	CH57 (4 weeks) CH
2007	Les 50 plus belles chansons	-	BE W173 (1 week) BE W	-	Chart entry in BEw only in 2014
2010	Gainsbourg (vie héroïque)	FR44 (9 weeks) FR	BE W44 (6 weeks) BE W	-	Soundtrack
2011	Best Of Gainsbourg - Comme un boomerang	FR3 gold (18 weeks)FR	BE W4 (28 weeks) BE W	CH49 (4 weeks) CH
	Gainsbourg - Intégrale 20ème anniversaire	FR53 (2 weeks) FR	BE W29 (14 weeks) BE W	-
2015	Le cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg	FR120 (1 week) FR	-	-
2016	London Paris 1963-1971	-	BE W49 (8 weeks) BE W	-
	Gainsbourg & Co	FR47 (6 weeks) FR	BE W32 (16 weeks) BE W	-
	Gainsbourg In Jazz	-	BE W132 (1 week) BE W	-
	Serge Gainsbourg & Friends	-	BE W168 (1 week) BE W	-
2018	90 séquences	-	BE W77 (4 weeks) BE W	-
	Intoxicated Man	-	BE W185 (1 week) BE W	-
2019	In studio with Serge Gainsbourg	FR158 (1 week) FR	BE W86 (5 weeks) BE W	-

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More compilations

• Du jazz dans le ravin (1997, jazz compilation)
• Couleur Café (1997, compilation of his songs with African and Latin American rhythms)
• D'autres nouvelles des étoiles (2005, 2 DVDs with a lot of unpublished film and song material)
• Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited (2006, compilation sung in English by well-known artists such as Franz Ferdinand , Marianne Faithfull , Jarvis Cocker and others)
• Mister Melody (2006, 4 CDs)
• A Son Meilleur - Essential Collection (2012, 2 CDs)

Singles (selection)

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		FR	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1962	La javanaise	FR87 (1 week) FR	-	-	-	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2011
1967	Initials BB Initials BB	FR93 (1 week) FR	-	-	-	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2011
1969	Je t'aime… moi non plus Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg	-	DE3 (28 weeks) DE	AT1 (24 weeks) AT	CH1 (17 weeks) CH	UK2 (20 weeks) UK	US58 (10 weeks) US	with Jane Birkin
	Mister Freedom	FR80 (1 week) FR	-	-	-	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2009
1970	La horse	FR94 (2 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2009
1973	Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais Vu de l'extérieur	FR73 (2 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2011
1985	Lemon Incest Love on the beat	FR2 silver (18 weeks)FR	-	-	-	-	-	with Charlotte Gainsbourg
1987	You're Under Arrest You're Under Arrest	FR47 (5 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-
1988	Aux enfants de la chance You're Under Arrest	FR35 (9 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-
1991	Requiem pour un con	FR8 (8 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-
	Le Pacha	FR49 (6 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-	Chart entry in FR only in 2010
1995	Élisa	FR36 (5 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Comme un boomerang Best Of Gainsbourg - Comme un boomerang	FR40 (2 weeks) FR	-	-	-	-	-

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Film music / soundtracks (selection)

Serge Gainsbourg's grave on the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris

• 1960: L'Eau à la bouche , film soundtrack
• 1960: Les Loups dans la Bergerie , film soundtrack
• 1963: Strip-tease , film soundtrack
• 1963: Comment Trouvez-Vous Ma Soeur? , Movie soundtrack
• 1966: Vidocq , TV film soundtrack
• 1966: Les cœurs vertes , TV film soundtrack
• 1966: Le Jardinier D'Argenteuil , TV film soundtrack
• 1967: Anna , TV film soundtrack
• 1967: Toutes Folles De Lui , TV film soundtrack
• 1967: Si j'étais un espion , TV film soundtrack
• 1967: L'Horizon , TV film soundtrack
• 1968: Manon 70 , film soundtrack
• 1968: Ce Sacré Grand-Père , film soundtrack
• 1968: The Bull (Le Pacha) , film soundtrack
• 1969: Mister Freedom , film soundtrack
• 1969: slogan , film soundtrack
• 1969: La Horse , film soundtrack
• 1969: Un Petit Garçon Nommé Charlie Brown , film soundtrack
• 1970: Cannabis , film soundtrack
• 1972: Sex shop , film soundtrack
• 1976: Je t'aime… moi non plus , film soundtrack
• 1977: Goodbye Emmanuelle , film soundtrack
• 1980: Je vous aime , film soundtrack
• 1985: Tenue de soirée , film soundtrack
• 2001: Le cinéma de Gainsbourg , 3-CD compilation

Singers for whom he wrote songs

• Isabelle Adjani : Pull Marine ;
• Elisabeth Anais : Mon père un catholique ;
• Michèle Arnaud : La Femme des uns sous le corps des autres ;
• Isabelle Aubret : Il n'y a plus d'abonné au numéro que vous avez demandé ;
• Brigitte Bardot : Bonnie and Clyde , Harley Davidson ;
• Minouche Barelli : Boum badaboum ;
• Jane Birkin : Duet with Serge Gainsbourg: Je t'aime… moi non plus , 69 année érotique , La Décadanse and solo: Jane B. , Ballade de Johnny-Jane , ex-fan of the sixties , baby alone in Babylone ;
• Petula Clark : La Gadoue ;
• Pia Colombo : Défense d'afficher ;
• Dalida : Je préfère naturellement ;
• Mireille Darc : La Cavaleuse ;
• Catherine Deneuve : Dieu est un fumeur de havanes ;
• Diane Dufresne : Suicide ;
• Marianne Faithfull : Here ou demain ;
• Charlotte Gainsbourg : Lemon Incest (duet with Serge Gainsbourg);
• France Gall : Poupée de cire, poupée de son , Les sucettes ;
• Juliette Gréco : Accordéon ;
• Françoise Hardy : Comment te dire adieu ;
• Zizi Jeanmaire : Bloody Jack ;
• Anna Karina : Sous le soleil exactement , Roller Girl ;
• Valérie Lagrange : La Guérilla ;
• Viktor Lazlo : Amour puissance six ;
• Lisette Malidor : Y'a bon ;
• Michèle Mercier : La Fille qui fait tchic-ti-tchic ;
• Nana Mouskouri : Les Yeux pour pleurer ;
• Vanessa Paradis : Dis-lui toi que je t'aime , tandem ;
• Régine : Les P'tits papiers ;
• Catherine Sauvage : Baudelaire ;
• Stone (French singer) : Buffalo Bill ;
• Joëlle Ursull : White and Black Blues ;
• Marie-Blanche Vergne : Au risque de te déplaire ;
• Jacques Dutronc ; Alain Chamfort;
• Alain Bashung ; u. a.

Awards for music sales

Golden record  France 1983: for the album Grandes Chansons 2006: for the album Les Cent Plus Belles Chansons 2 × gold record  France 1998: for the album Master Série - Vol. 2 1998: for the album Master Série - Vol. 3

Platinum record  France 1990: for the album Live 1995: for the album Master Série - Vol. 1

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
France (SNEP)	silver1	14 × gold14th	7 × platinum7th	3,365,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
All in all	silver1	14 × gold14th	7 × platinum7th

Filmography (selection)

• 1960: The slaves of Rome (La rivolta degli schiavi)
• 1961: Hercules in Cleopatra's Net (Sansone)
• 1962: Samson, Liberator of the Enslaved (La furia di Ercole)
• 1966: Blossoms, crooks and the night of Nice (Le jardinier d'Argenteuil)
• 1967: Anna
• 1968: Unrestrained Manon (Manon 70)
• 1969: slogan
• 1969: Erotissimo
• 1970: Cannabis - Angel of Violence (Cannabis)
• 1970: The Merciless (La horse)
• 1976: Je t'aime (Je t'aime moi non plus)
• 1980: The Men I Loved (Je vous aime)
• 1983: Equateur
• 1985: Clip for the song (Lemon Incest)
• 1986: Charlotte for Ever
• 1990: Stan the Flasher

Publications

• Serge Gainsbourg: Three Variations for a Sonnet. In: Jacques Bourboulon : Girls, of course. Sonnets by Serge Gainsbourg. Swan Verlag, Kehl am Rhein 1980, ISBN 3-88230-014-0 .
• Serge Gainsbourg: The Art of Farting. The explosive life of Evguénie Sokolov. Popa Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-442-08662-0 .
• Serge Gainsbourg: Pensées, provocs et autres volutes. le cherche midi, 2006, ISBN 2-7491-0497-1 .

Literature on Serge Gainsbourg

• Tony Frank, Ulrike Lelickens: Serge Gainsbourg . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-923-2 .
• Sylvie Simmons: Serge Gainsbourg - For a handful of Gitanes . Heyne Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-40668-1 .
• Christophe Marchand-Kiss: Gainsbourg. Le génie sinon rien . Les Éditions Textuel, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84597-167-2 (French).
• Gilles Verlant: Gainsbourg . Albin Michel, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-226-12060-2 (French).

Web links

Commons : Serge Gainsbourg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Serge Gainsbourg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Serge Gainsbourg, A Tribute to Gainsbourg (French)
• Serge Gainsbourg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Serge Gainsbourg at laut.de
• Serge Gainsbourg's photos in TV shows
• Oleg Yuryev . Heroic flatulence . In: Der Tagesspiegel ( Berlin ), JURJEWS KLASSIKER (about Serge Gainsbourg's novel "Evguenie Sokolov")
• Pronunciation of the name "Serge Gainsbourg" on Forvo.com
• Provocateur and poet - Serge Gainsbourg. Podcast with many audio examples. In: www.srf.ch/sendung/jazz-collection. SWR , accessed April 8, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Marchand-Kiss, Christophe: Gainsbourg. Le génie sinon rien. Les Éditions Textuel, Paris 2005, p. 20.
2. ↑ See Marchand-Kiss, as above, p. 40.
3. ↑ See Marchand-Kiss, as above, p. 36.
4. ↑ See Marchand-Kiss, as above, p. 42.
5. ↑ ARTE on Je t'aime moi non plus from September 10, 2007 ( Memento from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
6. ^ Gainsbourg's 20 most scandalous moments The Guardian, February 28, 2011.
7. ↑ See: Notes on Gainsbourg Percussions at Discogs , accessed on August 19, 2010.
8. ↑ Bambou, la dernière compagne de Gainsbourg, dévoile ses blessures de famille. In: purepeople.com. October 28, 2010, accessed on May 1, 2018 (French, Bambou confirms that her father was a nephew of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus ). 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: FR BEW CH