Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) 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 and scandalous releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorise, although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
==Links to Peel==
Peel wasn't much of a fan of Serge Gainsbourg's music, describing his single ('La Decadanse') with Jane Birkin, as the "son of "Je T'Aime" and is about as sexually arousing as the treaty of Dover of 1760", when reviewing it for Singles in the Disc & Music Echo paper on 8th April 1972. 
However, Peel did play Serge's "Aux Armes Et Cætera" in 1979, a reggae version of "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem, which was controversial in France, with some critics seeing it as an insult to the country. It was the title track of an album recorded in Kingston, Jamaica and featured the Revolutionaries, a group that JP often played on his radio programmes. Gainsbourg followed it with a second reggae album in 1981, which the DJ seems to have ignored, but after his death in 2004 it was later found that Peel had a copy of Serge's 'Aux Armes Et Cætera' album in his Record Collection: G.
==Shows Played==
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*27 August 1979: Aux Armes Et Cætera (LP - Aux Armes Et Cætera) Island
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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