Serge Gainsbourg is one of the songwriters of the most fertile of his time, covering all musical styles, but also in film and literature. He is the author of several movies and video clips and over 40 film soundtracks. Finally he created the image of a damned poet and provocateur .
The nightclubs, binge drinking, the night owls, the natural decay ... Increasingly, "Serge Gainsbourg" Gainsbourg succeed with a few TV appearances more or less alcoholic.
Serge Gainsbourg vs. Catherine Ringer (Rita Mitsouko)
gradually forge his legend Serge Gainsbourg poet cursed unshaven drunken and sometimes earned him the admiration and sometimes disgust. After 10 years, Jane Birkin and can no longer exit.
In May 1973, for example, Serge Gainsbourg suffered a heart attack. He continued to drink and smoke, faithful to the character he is becoming.
With Rock around the bunker he pushes the self-deprecation (he's hiding from anti-Jewish laws of the Occupation) and provocation at its height: it derides, in the second degree, aesthetics and the Nazi beads. The album, recorded in London, is radically rejected by radio programmers who see in this farce to a provocation Boris Vian with outrageous titles like Nazi rock Tata Teutonic. Yet at the end of the 1980s, this album will be covered with gold records.
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