French president in docu sights Variety By John Hopewell, Elsa Keslassy Following Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg and Nicolas Sarkozy, France's new president Francois Hollande will be the subject of a bigscreen docu in "Le Pouvoir" (The Power). Helmed by Patrick Rotman, who wrote Sarkozy ...
Queen of disco Donna Summer dead at 63 Nashville Scene By the time Summer hit the charts with the 1976 single "Love To Love You Baby" (a record reportedly inspired by the success of Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus"), disco had become a byword for ephemerality and shallowness.
Media-Mind: How to Make It in the Music Biz Mobiledia Grizzled punk legend Iggy Pop is releasing his new record, a collection of interpretations of French cafe classics by Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf and Georges Brassens, directly to fans via digital outlets like iTunes. Pop's label Virgin EMI rejected ...
Blog Community AJ Blog Network Launches Its New Music Mondays Feature Designed ... PR Urgent (press release) The extensive playlist, which features musicians ranging from legendary singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg to the band Foreigner, compiles a compelling selection of songs that all loosely adhere to the central theme. As the songs are selected by a ...
Film club screens biopic of enigmatic French singer Serge Gainsbourg This is Somerset Joann Sfar's imaginative film charts the tumultuous life of Serge Gainsbourg, beginning with Serge as a precocious child in Nazi-occupied Paris. There he struggles to live up to the expectations of his parents Joseph (Razvan Vasilescu) and Olga (Dinara ...
Donna Summer's Heavy-Breathing Blueprint for Pop The Atlantic The song was Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's "Je t'aime . . . moi non plus," a short sex scene set to guitar and organ, climaxing with Birkin, well, climaxing. According to Anthony Haden-Guest's The Last Party, Summer told Moroder, ... Donna Summer Dead at 63Nashville Scene
Coeur de Pirate set to change course Straight.com All cinematic strings and wide-eyed sadness one second, and springtime-in-Paris retro pop the next, the album finds the chanteuse haunting the same smoky clubs and coffee bars that icons like Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin once did, ...
May 23, 1934: Bonnie & Clyde ventilated by a hail of bullets Death and Taxes Another Gallic artist, Serge Gainsbourg, was also infatuated with the myth of Bonnie & Clyde, constructing a theme around the criminal lovers for his collaborative album with Brigitte Bardot entitled ?Bonnie & Clyde.? Merle Haggard tapped into the ...
Hear highlights and remixes from Words and Music by Saint Etienne The Guardian (blog) ... to put handclaps on something ? it didn't bother me too much that he called me 'Lawrence'," Bob Stanley told me recently. "It was an ideal setup, like the Brill Building, but with soft furnishings and a big picture of Serge Gainsbourg on the wall."
We Were Evergreen (No 1273) The Guardian "Most of our songs are between the past and the present, the differences between childhood and growing up," says Michael Liot, who trades vocals with Fabienne Débarre like a Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin who are still at the kissing stage.
Dum Dum Girls drummer Sandra Vu doubles as SISU's lead singer San Francisco Bay Guardian SV Some unexpected influences are Serge Gainsbourg, DJ Shadow, and Vashti Bunyan. There is one DJ Shadow song that I was sure inspired our bass sound, but I went back and listened to it, and it was much different than I remembered.
Famous musical offspring Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) (UMG) Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of French pop icon Serge Gainsbourg, says her father downplayed his fame at home: "He was very modest about what he did." (UMG) Natalie Cole sold over seven million copies of "Unforgettable... with Love," an album ...
Acne launches the Snowdon Blue project wallpaper.com Pictured here is Snowdon's portrait of Serge Gainsbourg By Apphia Michael Acne Studios' latest undertaking is a study in the colour blue, or blue shirts to be precise. The Swedish brand has published its first book - a collection of portraits taken by ...
Canada: student protests in Quebec FRANCE 24 The images are quite simply shocking, and the creators of the video have chosen a somewhat ironic backing track: Serge Gainsbourg's "Dieu est un fumeur de havanes", meaning ?God smokes Havana cigars?. It is a particularly novel initiative and hopes to ...
Family Affair: 16 Famous Musical Offspring San Francisco Chronicle (blog) (UMG) Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of French pop icon Serge Gainsbourg, says her father downplayed his fame at home: "He was very modest about what he did." (UMG) Natalie Cole sold over seven million copies of "Unforgettable... with Love," an album ...
Fate & Dog Bowls: A Business-Savvy Couple Gets Lucky in Norwalk Patch.com Steve Simms met Catherine Jaouen (zj-OW-en) at CD's Cafe in Norwalk when she was visiting from France on vacation and he was about to leave for France to sing on tour with Serge Gainsbourg.He tried telling her this. "She thought it was the biggest ...
Jean-Baptiste Michel New York Times And, of course, it's hard to go for a while without listening to Serge Gainsbourg. He's basically like the French version of Bob Dylan, only he's dead, which always helps with celebrity. WATCHING I don't have a TV. The commercials kill me.
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