Today would have been Serge Gainsbourg's birthday, the man who for many embodies French music was born on April 2 1982.
He would have been been 86
Many decades have passed since then, and many have passed since his death, but his legacy remains undiminished.
In 1958 Serge made his first appearance in French TV with the song Le Poinçonneur des Lilas.
It's amazing to think that a song that would still stand up as a classic so many years later was in fact his first solo success.
For an artist who initially found fame with a song about a metro ticket collector, the fact that decades later he is set to have a Paris metro station named after him is another posthumous chapter of his Vie Héroique.
Picture by Claude Truong-Ngoc.
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