Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson

by Darran Anderson

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, po?te maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast.

His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623562872
• ISBN13: 9781623562878
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.7" x 6.5"