Newsgroup: it.fan.musica.carmen-consoli
Titolo: Carmen e i francesi

La cover di Serge Gainsburg che Carmen canta nell'ultimo tour secondo me è
bellissima! Qualcuno ha notizie su questo Gainsburg e sulle sue canzoni?
Sempre in tema di francesi, Carmen sarà accompagnata da Damien Saez nelle
date di Bologna, Faenza e Perugia.
Ovviamente non conosco neanche lui, so solo che il suo disco si chiama
"Jours étranges" (Strani giorni) e la cosa mi fa pensare a Battiato e di
riflesso a Carmen. Direi che il cerchio si chiude ma come vedete vado avanti
solo ad associazione di idee...
ciaociao, Luigi

 riflesso a Carmen.
"it's rock but the text are "young spirit" (i don't know how to say
immature)"
così un'amica francese ha commentato D.S.
bohhhh
non sembrava molto entusiasta...
ciao
Marco

 bellissima! Qualcuno ha notizie su questo Gainsburg e sulle sue canzoni?
Serge Gainsbourg was the dirty old man of popular music; a French
singer/songwriter and provocateur notorious for his voracious appetite for
alcohol, cigarettes and women, his scandalous, taboo-shattering output made
him a legend in Europe but only a cult figure in America, where his lone hit
"Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus" stalled on the pop charts -- fittingly enough --
at number 69.
Born Lucien Ginzberg in Paris on April 2, 1928, his parents were Russian
Jews who fled to France following the events of the 1917 Bolshevik uprising.
After studying art and teaching, he turned to painting before working as a
bar pianist on the local cabaret circuit. Soon he was tapped to join the
cast of the musical Milord L'Arsoille, where he reluctantly assumed a
singing role; self-conscious about his rather homely appearance, Gainsbourg
initially wanted only to carve out a niche as a composer and producer, not
as a performer.
Still, he made his recording debut in 1958 with the album Du Chant a la
Une!; while strong efforts like 1961's L'Etonnant Serge Gainsbourg and
1964's Gainsbourg Confidentiel followed, his jazz-inflected solo work
performed poorly on the charts, although compositions for vocalists ranging
from Petula Clark to Juliette Greco to Dionne Warwick proved much more
successful. In the late 1960s, he befriended the actress Brigitte Bardot,
and later became her lover; with Bardot as his muse, Gainsbourg's
lushly-arranged music suddenly became erotic and delirious, and together,
they performed a series of duets -- including "Bonnie and Clyde," "Harley
Davidson" and "Comic Strip" -- celebrating pop culture icons.
Gainsbourg's affair with Bardot was brief, but its effects were irrevocable:
after he became involved with constant companion Jane Birkin, they recorded
the 1969 duet "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus," a song he originally penned for
Bardot complete with steamy lyrics and explicit heavy breathing. Although
banned in many corners of the globe, it reached the top of the charts
throughout Europe, and grew in stature to become an underground classic
later covered by performers ranging from Donna Summer to Ray Conniff.
Gainsbourg returned in 1971 with Histoire de Melody Nelson, a dark, complex
song cycle which signalled his increasing alienation from modern culture:
drugs, disease, suicide and misanthropy became thematic fixtures of his
work, which grew more esoteric, inflammatory and outrageous with each
passing release. Although Gainsbourg never again reached the commercial
success of his late-1960s peak, he remained an imposing and controversial
figure throughout Europe, where he was both vilified and celebrated for his
shocking behavior, which included burning 500 francs on a live television
broadcast and recording a reggae version of the sacred "La Marseillaise."
Gainsbourg also created a furor with the single "Lemon Incest," a duet with
his daughter, the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. In addition, he posed in
drag for the cover of 1984's Love on the Beat, a collection of songs about
male hustlers, and made sexual advances towards Whitney Houston on a live TV
broadcast. Along with his pop music oeuvre, Gainsbourg scored a number of
films, and also directed and appeared in a handful of features, most notably
1976's Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus, which starred Birkin and Andy Warhol
mainstay Joe Dallesandro. He died on March 2, 1991. ~ Jason Ankeny, All
Music Guide

 Gainsbourg's affair with Bardot was brief, but its effects were
irrevocable:
vorrei vedere... stare con Brigitte Bardot negli anni '60 (adesso non è più
quella di una volta...) avrebbe avuto effetti "irrevocabili" su chiunque :)
ciaociao, Luigi

"Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus"   [....]
Effettivamente Serge Gainsburg ebbe un momento di straordinaria notorietà in
Italia quando pubblicò questa canzone cantata in coppia con l'allora moglie
Jane Birkin. In pratica la canzone consisteva in un amplesso. Lo scandalo fu
enorme con tanto di stroncatura da parte dell'Osservatore Romano e censura
della Rai che ne proibì la messa in onda (Radio e TV). Di lui, in Italia, si
persero le tracce e se ne riparlò quando gli venne un infarto e fu piantato
dalla compagna. Questo per il grande pubblico. Il resto lo ha riportato
Alberto Brumana. Bene ha fatto Carmen a ricordare quest'artista che
altrimenti rimarrebbe nella memoria solo per la suddetta canzone che, a
riascoltarla oggi, fa solo sorridere.
Ciao a tutti