For its June 1972 issue, BritishVogue captured Serge Gainsbourg and JaneBirkin in matching polka-dotted ties – one of their many great couple’s style moments.
But he is perhaps best remembered for a provocative repertoire that included a concept album exploring the Third Reich in breezy pop terms, a reggae version of “La Marseillaise” that earned him death threats and, most scandalously, “Je t’aime… moi non plus” – a hymn to desire and sexual liberation recorded with
Birkin in 1968. Despite its nonsensical title and half-gasped, half-sung, barely intelligible lyrics, Birkin’s breathy simulated orgasms, punctuating a cheerful organ riff, led to it being banned from the airwaves throughout Europe . The Vatican denounced it and, of course, the song became a huge commercial success.
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