Description: blue eyes, brown hair, Jane B, English, female.
It is with these words from Gainsbourg, on a prelude by Chopin, that Jane Birkin presented herself in 1969. Without Gainsbourg, the 22-year-old actress would probably never have sung.
With him, the one who appeared in the iconic Swinging London
Blow Up film
had already hit the headlines by performing
Je t'aime moi non plus
.
Spurned by Bardot - who blocked the release of the version recorded with her for nearly twenty years - Gainsbourg even managed to wow the English with his transgressive love song.
It will not take more to make the ex-wife of John Barry the creature of the famous songwriter.
A role to which the beautiful young woman, already a mother, will comply for many years.
Within this emblematic couple of the 1970s, Jane Birkin will hold her place.
In song, she is at the service of her companion, who asks her to sing loudly, on the verge of breaking.
In the cinema, away
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