In January 1979, France’s most scandalous artist flew to Jamaica and recorded with Bob Marley’s band. They thought he was the ...

Despite radio bans and controversy, Rod Stewart’s 1976 hit Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) became one of the biggest songs of his career.

Already world famous for several years by 1962, Brigitte Bardot used her film stardom to launch a music career in her late twenties with “Sidonie,” a song from the Louis Malle-directed romance in ...

The name Birkin might be stitched forever into the story of the Hermès bag but before the legend there was the woman, and today we’re turning our gaze to her. Jane Birkin. English, outspoken and ...

Tender, raw, euphoric, sometimes devastating: love songs are the heartbeat of popular music. They’ve captured everything from infatuation to heartbreak, lifelong devotion to one-night desire. The best ...

These days, we’re more likely to be shocked by something a looney-tunes politician says than any rock-star activity, but when French composer Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) was around he was Monsieur ...

It seems unlikely that a song for one woman would result in the love of another. But that was the case with Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘Initials B.B.’, the opening single of an album devoted to his affair ...

The new animated film, ‘Gainsbourg: Rue de Verneuil’ is based on 11 hours of interviews with the iconic French singer, two years before his death. Biopics about musicians are a dime a dozen, but it ...

After a disappointing date with his then-girlfriend actress and singer, Brigitte Bardot, who was married at the time, Serge Gainsbourg was tasked by the French actress with writing her “the most ...

After her father Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, actor Charlotte Gainsbourg left the house she inherited in stylish Saint-Germain-des-Prés exactly as it was. A packet of Smarties stayed by the bed that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Jane Birkin passed away at at 76 in 2023, the fashion world went into mourning. For over half a century, the actress and ...