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. De Gainsbourg a Gainsbarre
Search: Strip Tease
by: Serge Gainsbourg
Release Date October 01, 1999
Although an icon in his native France, people in Britain only recognise the name when you play them "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus", the saucy Sixties single on which Gainsbourg duetted with his English lover, Jane Birkin. We may laugh at the rather OTT orgasmic groans, but there's no denying it's a wonderful and really rather beautiful song. "69 - annee erotique" and "Lemon Incest" (a duet with daughter Charlotte) may carry on the self-parodying theme, but this is much more than knowing kitsch. "Initials BB" (about Brigitte Bardot) takes the best bit from Dvorak's New World Symphony as its chorus and the afore-mentioned "Lemon Incest" uses a Chopin prelude as its melody, showing ... Read More:
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