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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

The film follows notorious musician Serge Gainsbourg's exploits from his upbringing in Nazi occupied France through his rise to fame and love affairs with Juliette Gréco, Brigitte Bardot and marriage to Jane Birkin to his later experimentation with reggae in Jamaica.


Bloody Jack

"Bloody Jack", a song by Serge Gainsbourg from his 1968 album Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot: Initials B.B..

Caroline Tillette

In 2009, she joined LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Drama) and had a role in Gainsbourg, vie héroïque directed by Joann Sfar.

Heather Mason

The development team realized that she seemed too "nice" and Heather was inspired by Sophie Marceau and Gainsbourg to give her an attitude.

Jin-go-lo-ba

It has been covered by Serge Gainsbourg, under the title Marabout and with no credit given to Olatunji, on his Gainsbourg percussions LP (1964), by Santana, on their first album (1969), by James Last on his album Voodoo-Party (1971), by Pierre Moerlen's Gong on their Downwind album (1979), and by Fatboy Slim on his album Palookaville (2004).

King Stitt

He can be heard on a 2002 Bruno Blum-produced deejay version of Serge Gainsbourg's reggae song "Des Laids Des Laids" entitled "The Original Ugly Man", released on Gainsbourg's Aux Armes Et Cætera "dub style" remixes in 2003 (featuring The Revolutionaries with Sly & Robbie and Bob Marley's vocal group I-Threes).

L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg

L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg is the third album by French musician Serge Gainsbourg, released in 1961.

La Javanaise

La Javanaise is a song written and composed by Serge Gainsbourg originally for Juliette Gréco, and interpreted by both her and Serge Gainsbourg in 1963.

Marcis Dzelzainis

Marcis informed the judges that this cocktail was an hommage to Serge Gainsbourg, calling it the Gainsbourg Daisy.


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