There’s a brand new excerpt from ‘Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes’ in the influential UK web magazine The Quietus – the chapter on Gainsbourg’s best-known song, the sexy and controversial Je T’Aime…Moi Non Plus and the lovers who inspired it and sang it. You can read it here.

http://thequietus.com/articles/18468-serge-gainsbourg-jane-birkin-je-taime-moi-non-plus

For anyone who missed US webzine Salon‘s excerpt from Sylvie’s acclaimed biography of Gainsbourg – this one about how a shy French Jew, forced to wear a yellow star by the Nazis as a child and mocked by prostitutes in his teens, became the sexiest man in Paris – here’s a link.

http://tinyurl.com/qjvqo3t

And here’s an in-depth interview with Sylvie – in English and in French – about her and Gainsbourg and how she came to be his English biographer.

http://www.gainsbourgforever.com/sylvie-simmons-interview-serge-gainsbourg-a-fistful-of-gitanes/

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