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QUÉBEC (AFP) – Jane Birkin became the muse of her late partner, Serge Gainsbourg, with her very flirtatious and breathing voice.
Birkin revived the legendary song of the French songwriter singing accompanied orchestra – a format that would have pleased Gainsbourg, who often brought classical motifs.
Birkin, who took his Gainsbourg Symphonique on Saturday, July 8 at the giant summer festival in Quebec City, the Quebec City Summer Festival, told AFP some of the memories behind the songs:
I love you … Me No More
When Birkin met Gainsbourg in 1968, the singer-songwriter was heartbroken by a failed romance with the film icon Brigitte Bardot. Birkin, a fledgling actress from England, had just arrived in France after the divorce of composer John Barry.
I love you … Me No More – which means, clumsily, "I love you … me neither" – has become infamous for his racy character, including moans recorded erotic pleasure. The song was banned on radio in several countries and even condemned by the Vatican.
Gainsbourg had written the song for Bardot, which he dubbed "the most beautiful song of love you can imagine," in 1967 and had imagined it as duet. But in 1969, he ended up registering with Birkin.
Birkin, who had a strong English accent in French, says that she was not surprised when Gainsbourg invited her to sing because he was afraid to team up with one. many actresses eager to collaborate with him, like Mireille Darc.
"So when he asked me to sing it, after Bardot, I understood correctly," she said. "I did it, but an octave higher, but not intentionally, happened like that."
"It gave him a choirboy side he liked a lot, of course, he was transposed to our relationship – he was 40, I was 20, but we were both acting younger.
"He also liked that I was English Even the fact that I was married to John Barry, the James Bond composer, who flattered him a little, with him just leaving Bardot."
Jane B
Gainsbourg wrote the song for Birkin even before he asked her to sing on I love you … Me No More, "she Recall that the song – which appeared as a B-face of I love you … Me No More – has become an introduction of Birkin to listeners
"It's funny to sing it 50 years later. Later, "said the 71-year-old, remembering the line," Age: between 20 and 21. "" It makes me smile a little. People crack up hearing me say that. "
The Chic Bottoms
In 1983, Gainsbourg and Birkin are separated for three years but he continues to write songs to him, Birkin remembers him intensely when she sings" The C is the most beautiful song about the separation you could have, "she says," it's probably my favorite song because all there is in it is really it. "" There is a great modesty in all its songs. separation. Serge never stopped writing about me until the end. "
Lost Song
In 1987, Jane was involved for seven years with director Jacques Doillon with whom she had a daughter, Lou
She misled me on my identity, that's why she was not married. she is more French or English, and on aging, "she said," Serge refused to write me a song on this theme and said: "You will never grow old." "
After telling Gainsbourg how she hummed a melody of Edvard Grieg in an advertisement, the author wrote her a song based on the Norwegian composer's Peer Gynt, but he insisted on choosing the theme. One of them, who asks you knowingly, and no one else, to sing them Serge was crying during the recording and I was singing as best as I could and as high as possible to make an impression. "
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