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Darran Anderson - Serge Gainsbourg´s Histoire de Melody Nelson - 9781623562878 - V9781623562878
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Serge Gainsbourg´s Histoire de Melody Nelson

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Description for Serge Gainsbourg´s Histoire de Melody Nelson Paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: AVGN; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 123 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation, humour, exoticism and ultimately tragedy. Composed and arranged with the great Jean-Claude Vannier, its score of lush cinematic strings and proto-hip hop beats, combined with ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
33 1/3
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781623562878
SKU
V9781623562878
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Ref
99-50

About Darran Anderson
Darran Anderson is an Irish writer. He is a co-editor of 3:AM Magazine.

Reviews for Serge Gainsbourg´s Histoire de Melody Nelson
This book is intended to be a biography of an album, but due to Darran Anderson’s thorough research and skilled prose storytelling, Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson morphs into a brilliant (if often dark) illustration of Serge Gainsbourg himself, even more than that of the title character, Melody Nelson. That said, when one knows this much more about the ... Read more

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