songs, long before the museum

While fans are upset by the unexpected financial difficulties of Maison Gainsbourg, his personal museum, let’s return to the singular aura of Serge Gainsbourg, celebrated by the singers…

Ecce homo, 1981: you are never as well served as by yourself, and Serge Gainsbourg showed this by dedicating songs to Serge Gainsbourg himself. This would almost make us forget that no French singer has been so celebrated by his peers.

And when we talk about Gainsbourg’s ability to ingest alcoholic beverages, we must not forget that, during his lifetime and even before he started talking about his double, Gainsbarre, we often saw him with a glass in his hand in the songs of others – for example with Carlos in 1987, with Claude François in 1967, with Léo Ferré in 1969.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news, broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

Serge Gainsbourg, Ecce homo, 1981

Carlos, Tcha tcha, 1987

Claude François, Tonight I’m going to drink, 1967

Léo Ferré, Pepe, 1969

Dave, Hello Elisa, 1979

Caroline Grimm, Love à la Gainsbourg, 1988

Serge Lama, Music and Love, 1986

Alkpote, Without comment, 2012

Alkpote, Gainzbeur, 2012

Alkpote, Shetan rap, 2008

Alkpote, Gainzbeur, 2012

Alain Souchon, New, 1978

Christophe Maé, Art and Manner, 2007

Renaud, My favorite bistro, 2002

Eddie Mitchell, At the Lutetia bar, 2004

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