This could be taken as a continuation of my “isn’t France brilliant” post but I just finished reading a biography of Serge Gainsbourg and can’t believe what a genius he was.
Obviously I particularly admire his ability to pull stunning women despite being uglier than me ! but he also managed to upset conservative France with a Reggae version of their National Anthem before the sex pistols had thought of doing “God Save the Queen”. He also managed to record numerous albums in as many styles, shoot a variety of bizarre movies and still have time to direct commercials for the Renault 9, Babyliss and yoghurt.
For some reason, his most famous quote appears to be “ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts” but I prefer his effort on one of his legendary talk show appearances when he turned to fellow guest Whitney Houston and announced “I’d like to f*ck you”. I believe the chat show host attempted to alter the translation but since it had gone out live, he was wasting his time.
What a guy
plus he became and alcoholic when he was in his 60’s, smoked three packs of gitane a day and had his legs amputated from the knee down. inspirational. m