ARTBOOK
@ Paper Chase, Book Soup and Tam Tam Books
invite you
to the launch party for Gainsbourg: The Biography.
Join
us for a tribute to Serge Gainsbourg, the French singer, songwriter,
poet, composer, artist, actor and the country’s most beloved pop
export since Edith Piaf. The evening will feature Gainsbourg videos
and music, and a discussion with the Biography author, Gilles
Verlant, in conversation with translator, Paul Knobloch and Tam Tam
publisher, Tosh Berman.
Tuesday,
July 17, 2012
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
RSVP@dapinc.com
FREE but
RSVP required and will be accepted until venue capacity is reached
ARTBOOK
| Paper Chase
7174
Sunset Boulevard
(corner of Sunset and Formosa)
Hollywood, California
(corner of Sunset and Formosa)
Hollywood, California
(323)
969-8985
Serge Gainsbourg
redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and
mambo-influenced jazz artist to the ironic “yé-yé” beat and
lush orchestration of his 1960s work to his launching of French
reggae in the 1970s to the electric funk and disco of his last
albums. He was the self-proclaimed ugly lover of such beauties as
Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, the iconic provocateur whose
heavy-breathing “Je t’aime moi non plus” was banned from
airwaves throughout Europe and whose reggae version of the
“Marseillais” earned him death threats from the right.
Gilles Verlant’s biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language. Drawing from numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant provides a fascinating look at the inner workings of 1950s–1990s French pop culture and the conflicted and driven songwriter, actor, director and author that emerged from it: the young boy wearing a yellow star during the German Occupation; the young art student trying to woo Tolstoy’s granddaughter; the musical collaborator of Petula Clark, Juliette Greco and Sly and Robbie; the seasoned composer of the Lolita of pop albums, Histoire de Melody Nelson; the cultural icon who transformed scandal and song into a new form of delirium.
Special
thanks to the evening's bookseller, Book Soup.
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