Always a controversial figure, Serge Gainsbourg was a multi-platform artist
working in music, literature and music... and ruffled the feathers of polite
French society at almost every turn. He's best remembered for Je T'aime...Moi
Non Plus, a Number 1 hit in 1969 with his young English wife, the actress Jane
Birkin (but originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot), which was widely banned
and caused an outrage with its explicit sexual lyrics and sound effects.
Gainsbourg was brought up in Paris by Russian Jewish parents traumatised by the
Nazi occupation of France and struggled in h...