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"We were so in love and happy."
The powerful, scandalous love between Jane Birkin, then a 22-year-old model, and singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, 40, marked the history of music, also influencing fashion and customs.
Countless anecdotes told by the singer over the years, which evoked a life outside of comfort, between alcoholic excesses (especially his), libertine style, colossal fights and excessive gestures.
And the song "Je t'aime moi non plus" which was censored in Italy for the lyrics explicitly showing a love meeting: the disc was seized by the judiciary throughout the country (but listeners could still hear Birkin's sighs on Radio Capodistria or Radio Monte Carlo).
Jane, the model, and Serge, the singer and actor, met for the first time in 1968 at an audition for the movie "Slogan".
She was very young with breathtaking beauty, he was already forty years old (he smoked and drank too much alcohol, cursed and seemed to sleep in his clothes she said) when he was not attracted to her at first.
Speaking about her to her director brother Andrew (author of Jane and Serge, a family album) he described her like this: “He's terrible. He would be my on-screen boyfriend, but he's so arrogant, snobbish, dismissive of me."
She had just split from composer John Barry, married at 17 with whom she had a daughter, Kate.
He had already ended up on all the covers for a whirlwind affair with Brigitte Bardot.
The first meeting between Jane and Serge arrives, also a fiasco: "We ended the evening at the Hilton, but my virtue was saved: he fell asleep in a kind of alcoholic torpor." Premises denied by the future: a great love was born between the two, which led to the birth, three years later, of their only daughter, the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (Lars von Trier's muse in Melancholia).
The relationship between the two ended in 1981.
The fights were unforgettable.
However, according to her, it was precisely his numerous alcoholic excesses and aggressiveness that led to the separation.
She moved with her daughters to a hotel, refusing to speak publicly about the end of the love story.
Over the years, a friendship was born between the two and the singer produced several solo records of her own.
New loves came for both of them (and for him the last daughter Lou, from the director Jacques Doillon), but the love remained intact until his death in 1991./ 'Corriere della Sera'
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