On prétend que nous tuons de sang-froid

Thursday music corner: A star collaboration between stratospherically famous former lovers Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, this 1968 single indulged Gainsbourg’s fascination with American pop culture, specifically the 1967 new-wave cinema classic Bonnie & Clyde featuring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. It was released on two albums in 1968: Gainsbourg's Bardot-referencing Initials B.B., and Gainsbourg and Bardot's album Bonnie and Clyde. Despite this performance with Bardot, by 1968 Gainsbourg was actually romantically associated with English singer and actress Jane Birkin, with whom he recorded the scandalous chart-topper ‘Je t’aime… moi non-plus’, after the then-married Bardot refused to let her recorded version of the song be issued. Gainsbourg, who smoked five packs of unfiltered Gitane cigarettes a day, died in 1991 aged 62. Bardot, now aged 86, is a prominent animal rights activist.

Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie and Clyde (1968)

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