Showing posts with label quoi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quoi. Show all posts

16 Jul 2023

D'notre amour fou n'resterait que des cendres (In Memory of Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg)

Jane Birkin (Dec 1946 - July 2023)
 
 
I'm very sad to note that - 32 years after the death of Serge Gainsbourg - Jane Birkin has died. 
 
Theirs may or may not have been the greatest (or even craziest) love affair of the 20th century, but it was certainly the one that I found most intriguing (and possibly the most touching).

So what, then, remains now that they are both dead? Only ashes, as they themselves anticipated?
 
No.

Jane and Serge leave behind a huge number of beautiful images, beautiful songs - perhaps the most beautiful ever written in French - and beautiful memories. 
 
And, in Jane's case, she even leaves behind a beautiful Hermès bag to which she lent her name. 
 
You can't hope for much more than that ...  
 
 
Note: the title of this post is a line from a track entitled Quoi, found on the 1986 compilation album by Birkin. The song - one of my favourites - was written by Gainsbourg and Cesare De Natale (arr. Guido & Maurizio De Angelis). Click here to play here and watch the video on YouTube.