This Friday, February 17, a close friend of Serge Gainsbourg, in the person of Robert Charlebois, looks back on his crazy evenings with the singer and his breakup with Jane Birkin.
Jane Birkin returned to the forefront of the musical scene by unveiling at the end of last year in particular a box set compiling all its greatest titles baptized The complete Jane Birkin, 1969-2022. The singer takes this opportunity to reflect on her past, such as the death of Serge Gainsbourg, his mentor. “It’s so cheerful because there are such charming pink periods, but at the end of the day, having seen the pictures over and over again, lots of memories, we remain in a curious mourning of a time when everything was so fresh and people were alive“, she confided a few months ago.
Jane Birkin inconsolable, 30 years after the death of Gainsbourg
About the death of Serge Gainsbourg, which occurred on March 2, 1992, she really never recovered. “I am saddened by Serge’s death after 30 years of getting used to it. But then, by dint of diving back into it, I realize how sweet it was too, and how wild, and how funny, how light everything was. It’s missing. I wouldn’t have thought it could be sadder 30 years later. You have to watch out for the people around you […] It was so good to have this person there, so original… If we needed him, he was always there […] Nothing to see with tragedies like Kate [sa fille, décédée le 11 décembre 2013, ndlr.]“, admitted Jane Birkin. It is in the Weekend supplement of Parisian that a friend of Serge Gainsbourg confides this February 17 about the relationship between the mother of Charlotte and the interpreter of the Poinçonneur des Lilas.
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Serge Gainsbourg confided his grief to his friend Robert Charlebois
Indeed, it was Robert Charlebois who returned to the unique links he had been able to create with certain artists such as Janis Joplin, Sergio Leone, and Serge Gainsbourg. “A lot of geniuses I’ve known had alcohol in common“, says the one who no longer counts crazy nights with Gainsbarre, at the end of which they ended up on the Champs-Élysées driving traffic. Serge loved his caustic humor, and when Jane Birkin left Gainsbourg for Jacques Doillon, he confided his grief to her. “Do you realize they are seeing each other at the Hilton!”. “You’re right, they could have chosen the Ritz, it’s more chic”retorted his friend.
