When Serge Gainsbourg, one of France’s most influential singer-songwriters, died aged 62 on March 2, 1991, then-president François Mitterrand described him as “our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire. He ...

Nostalgia can be a powerful force. Just ask actress-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. “I think I’ve been very much turned towards the past,” she admits. Perhaps that’s a consequence of losing her father, ...

On August 28 there is a Serge Gainsbourg Tribute at the Hollywood Bowl, part of the successful KCRW World Festival series. The artists are mostly non-Francophones, with a few exceptions (Victoria ...

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- ...

Sent to France in 1968 on an assignment to photograph potential locations for an upcoming Stanley Kubrick film, Andrew Birkin soon turned his lens on his younger sister Jane and her new beau Serge ...

"His style did not shout -- it whispered," says Nick Jonas' stylist Avo Yermagyan, who explains how Serge Gainsbourg's "discreet elegance" is surfacing in male artists today. By Shannon Adducci “His ...

On March 2, 1991, Serge Gainsbourg went to sleep in his bed on the second floor of his house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil in Paris and never woke up. A second heart attack killed him at age 62. For all of ...

The new film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is an unconventional biopic about French musician Serge Gainsbourg. He is celebrated in France for the songs he wrote, and the affairs he had with beautiful ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Jane Birkin molded [her partner, French singer-songwriter] Serge Gainsbourg into the man of her fantasies ...

British actress and singer Jane Birkin has defended her late lover Serge Gainsbourg against claims he was the 'Harvey Weinstein of songs'. Birkin, 73, was in a relationship with French ...