Europony

Yes fellow show-ponies, the time has come for roaming. The pastures of youth are drying and the stable girls have all but grown out of any signs they once had of purity (sigh/neh). My saddlebags are a-packed now and I leave these fields for more foreign oats. My road leads to Europe where I will endeavor to post back to you stories of each country's musical past or present. I write to you now from France where back in the 60s and 70s Serge Gainsbourg reigned. Although known most famously for 'Je T'aime.....Mais non plus' he actually penned some of the finest grooves of the time and can now mostly be heard as samples used in must french hip-hop or Beck songs. Here he is in a state of the art video singing 'Ballade de Melode Nelson'



.....known also for horsing around with Brigette Bardot for a while even recording in one of her more sexual excited states and using in one of his records. Here he is with her in a video of 'Bonnie and Clyde'



...and finally in one of his finest moments showing that all those Gaulloise don't help you mime.



That's all for now, next stop Luxembourg.

Colin