I have written a few weeks ago about Joann Sfar’s film Gainsbourg (Vie Eroique) which I liked a lot. The Arte TV culture channel broadcast several segments dedicated to Gainsbourg 20 years after his death (on March 2, 1991). One of them is one of the concerts in the series that Gainsbourg performed at the Casino de Paris in 1985-1986, filmed by Claude Ventura. Gainsbourg was in the 80s at the top of his creative power as a musician (and this concert supported by a group of American instrumentalists proves it) but also in the middle of many controversies and so close to the end of his life and career. Luckily, on youTube several sequences of the concert are available.
Love on the Beat opens the concert. It’s taken and bears the same title as the album released by Gainsbourg two years before, where he was experimenting with electronic music and which was including several songs which created controversy because of their lyrics.
The splendid version of Bonnie and Clyde is of a song originally created and sung by Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot, at the time of their very publicized relationship.
Initials B.B. belongs to the same album written in 1968 by Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot. It was the only music album ever issued by the French super-star.
Which one of the many love relations Gainsbourg had during his stormy and intensely lived life was Sorry Angel about?
Sorry angel Sorry so Sorry angel Sorry so C'est moi qui t'est suicidée Mon amour Je n'en valais pas la peine Tu sais Sans moi tu as décidé Un beau jour Décidé que tu t'en allais Sorry angel Sorry so Sorry angel Sorry so Le compte avait commencé A rebours Etait-ce vertige déveine Qui sait Un voyage un aller seul Au long court D'où l'on ne revient jamais Sorry angel Sorry so Sorry angelSorry so Moi j'aurais tout essayé Mon amour C'était vraiment pas la peine Je sais Que c'était foutu d'avance Mon amour Je n'ai ni remord ni regret Sorry angel Sorry so Sorry angel Sorry so C'est moi qui t'est suicidée Mon amour Moi qui t'ai ouvert les veines Je sais Maintenant tu es avec les anges Pour toujours Pour toujours et à jamais Sorry angel Sorry so Sorry angel Sorry so[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/s/serge-gainsbourg-lyrics/sorry-angel-lyrics.html]