Over There.('Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes' and 'Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil')(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 04-NOV-02

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Eleven years ago, when Serge Gainsbourg, the Gitane-puffing demigod of French pop, died, France came to a virtual standstill, and President Francois Mitterand publicly eulogized the singer, songwriter, and film star as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Hyperbole, perhaps, but, as Sylvie Simmons's biography makes clear, there was little about...

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