33 1/3 - Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson Wire Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956)

Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956)

but he knows just where to find the right spells to stop the chicken pox epidemic and bring back the twenty cows that had disappeared

It was their first record as a quintet

the first is theoretical

33 1/3 - Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson Wire Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956)Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, pote maudit, Pop Artist, libertine and anti hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo,