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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Originally published in Uncut Take 287 (April 2021 issue)... Originally published in Uncut Take 287 (April 2021 issue)… Released in March 1971, Histoire De Melody Nelson did little to trouble the ...

“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 ...

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 ...