History Music / SergeGainsbourg

In 2010, a biopic was released : [[Main/{{Gainsbourg}}''Gainsbourg, Vie Héroïque'']].

In 2010, a biopic was released : [[Main/Gainsbourg ''Gainsbourg, Vie Héroïque'']].

In 2010, a biopic was released : ''Gainsbourg, vie héroïque''.

He experienced with many genre of music from the {{Chanson}} and jazz to pop music, electro and reggae.
He was a controversial character, who wrote many erotic and polemical song and until his death was surrounded by a lot of controversy, but was also considered as a poet and a genius, the last of the tradition of ''Poètes Maudits'' (doomed poets) and adapted many famous poems in songs.

He had somewhat of a BrokenBase. But since his death he is pretty much universally celebrated.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "''Variation sur Marilou''"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: He famously wrote a song for then 18-years-old France Gall called "''Les sucettes''" ("The Lollipops") about a girl named Annie who loved sucking lollipops (the double entendre meaning fellatio). France Gall claimed she sung it [[InnocentInnuendo completely innocently]], without understanding the sexual meaning of the lyrics.
* IntercourseWithYou: ''"Je t'aime... moi non plus''"
* KavorkaMan: Despite being notoriously ugly and an alcoholic, he had relationships with some of the most beautiful women of his time. He even wrote a song about this: "''Des laids des laids''".

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: In the song ''"Comic Strip"'' typical comic strip onomatopeia are imitated.

* YouMakeMeSic: "''En relisant ta lettre''"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: He famously wrote a song for then 18-years-old France Gall called "''Annie aime les sucettes''" ("Annie likes lolipops") about fellatio. France Gall claimed she sung it [[InnocentInnuendo completely innocently]], without understanding the sexual meaning of the lyrics.

* SpokenWordInMusic: A lot, in the ''Histoire de Melody Nelso'' album.

* SpokenWordInMusic: A lot, in the''Histoire de Melody Nelso'' album.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His past as a Jew during the Nazi Occupation. Possibly parodied/satirized in the album "Rock Around The Bunker".

* SpokenWordInMusic: A lot, in the "Histoire de Melody Nelson" album.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His past as a Jew during the Nazi Occupation. Possibly Parodied in the album "Rock Around The Bunker".

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His past as a Jew during the Nazi Occupation.

He was a controversial character, who wrote many erotic and polemical song and until his death was surrounded by a lot of controversy, but was also considered [[{{YMMV}} by some]] as a poet and a genius, the last of the tradition of ''Poètes Maudits'' (doomed poets) and adapted many famous poems in songs.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: He famously wrote a song for then 18-years-old France Gall called "''Annie aime les sucettes''" ("Annie likes lolipops") about fellatio. France Gall claimed she sung it [[InnocentInnuendo completely innocently]], without undertanding the sexual meaning of the lyrics.

In 2010, a biopic was released : ''Gainbourg, vie héroïque''.

* TheWoobie: He grew up under the Nazi Occupation and wore the yellow star. His family later had to flee Paris and he was sent to hide in a Jesuite school under a false identity and was nearly escaped death one night during a Gestapo control.

* TheAlcoholic : Gainsbarre.
* BecomingTheMask : with his alter-ego Gainsbarre.

* CoolCar : The Rolls-Royce silver ghost from ''Histoire de Melody Nelson''. He himself later bought a Rolls-Royce Phamtom.
* ADateWithRosiePalms : ''Variation sur Marilou''
* DarkAndTroubledPast : his past as a Jew during the Nazi Occupation.
* DramaticIrony : [[UnreliableNarrator He liked to tell]] the story of how he fought to be the first in line to receive the yellow star, thinking it was a sheriff star.

* {{Expy}}: ''Histoire de Melody Nelson'' is a ConceptAlbum which is heavily based around ''{{Lolita}}''.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar : he famously wrote a song for then 18 years old France Gall called ''Annie aime les sucettes'' (Annie likes lolipops) about fellatio. France Gall claimed she sung it [[InnocentInnuendo completely innocently]], without undertanding the sexual meaning of the lyrics.
* IntercourseWithYou : ''Je t'aime...moi non plus''
* KavorkaMan : Despite being notoriously ugly and an alcoholic, he had relationships with some of the most beautiful women of his time. He even wrote a song about this ''Des laids des laids''.
* OutlawCouple: "Bonnie and Clyde" (with Brigitte Bardot)

* RealLifeRelative: Did duets with his daughter Charlotte and his wife, Jane Birkin.
** Also most of the women he wrote song for became his mistress. Notably, Brigitte Bardot.
* {{Self-Deprecation}}
* SmokingIsCool : It's hard to find a picture of him where he isn't smoking.
* TheWoobie : He grew up under the Nazi Occupation and wore the yellow star. His family later had to flee Paris and he was sent to hide in a Jesuite school under a false identity and was nearly escaped death one night during a Gestapo control.

* AudioErotica : Many of his songs, {{YMMV}} on whether or not Gainsbourg voice is this trope. ''Je t'aime, moi non plus'' with Jane Birkin is a famous illustration of this trope.

Serge Gainsbourg was a French musician, actor, and film director.

* TheAlcoholic

* AudioErotica: "Je t'aime... moi non plus" (with Jane Birkin), which was banned in many countries due to simulated orgasm sounds.

* Chanson

* BonnieAndClyde: "Bonnie and Clyde" (with Brigitte Bardot)