Serge Gainsbourg
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Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused
Gainsbourg in 1981
Gainsbourg, Gall, and del Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest, 20 March 1965
Tributes left at his gravesite
Tribute graffiti covers the outer wall of Serge Gainsbourg's house on the rue de Verneuil in Paris, looked after by Charlotte Gainsbourg after her father's death
Jane Birkin
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Jane Mallory Birkin was an Anglo-French actress and singer. She had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in French cinema.
Serge Gainsbourg
…Whilst filling in a form to join the songwriting society SACEM, Gainsbourg decided to change his first name to Serge. According to his future partner Jane Birkin, "Lucien reminded him of a hairdresser's assistant." He chose Gainsbourg as his last name, an homage to the English painter Thomas Gainsborough, whom…
Birkin in 1970
Birkin in La Piscine, 1969
Birkin in 1985
Birkin at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival