Gilles verlant biography books

  • Gilles Verlant was a Belgian journalist, best known as a music critic and rock expert.
  • Gilles Verlant's biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language.
  • Gilles Verlant (11 June 1957 – 20 September 2013) was a Belgian journalist, best known as a music critic and rock expert.
  • Gainsbourg the Biography - English edition

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    Gilles Verlant's biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most recognized in any language. Drawing on numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant offers a fascinating look at the world of French pop culture from the 1950s-1990s, and the songwriter, actor, director and author who emerged from it.

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    BOOK IN ENGLISH

    Gilles Verlant's biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most recognized in any language. Drawing on numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant offers a fascinating look at the world of French pop culture from the 1950s-1990s, and the songwriter, actor, director and author who emerged from it.

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    Publication Year
    2012
    Dimensions
    6.57 x 1.24 x 9.3 inches
    Number of Pages
    400
    EAN
    9780966234671
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    Gainsbourg: The Curriculum vitae - Softcover

    Gainsbourg: The Memoir (Paperback)

    Gilles Verlant

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    Gainsbourg: The Biography

    MUSIC: COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, GROUPS

    PUBLISHER
    TamTam Books

    BOOK FORMAT
    Paperback, 8.5 x 5.5 in. / 400 pgs.

    PUBLISHING STATUS
    Pub Date 7/31/2012
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    Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 46   

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    By Gilles Verlant. Translated by Paul Knobloch.

    Gilles Verlant’s biography of Serge Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language

    When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: François Mitterand himself proclaimed him “our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire.” Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mambo-influenced jazz artist to the ironic “yé-yé” beat and lush orchestration of his 1960s work to his launching of French reggae in the 1970s to the electric funk and disco of his last albums. But mourned as much as his music was Gainsbourg the man: the self-proclaimed ugly lover of such bea
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