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Who sang Initials B.B.?

Serge Gainsbourg released the song Initials B.B.. Date of release: 6/1968.

Release date: 6/1968

Duration: 03:34

Producer(s): Claude Dejacques

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This song is about a woman trying to seduce a man.

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Serge Gainsbourg - Short Biography

- Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer, songwriter, painter, screenwriter, director and actor.
- He was born on April 2, 1928 in Paris and died on March 2, 1991 in the same city.
- Gainsbourg is considered one of the most important French musicians of the 20th century.
- He wrote and recorded more than 550 songs, created numerous film scores and acted in more than 30 films.
- He received the Grand Prix de la Chanson at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.

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- Initiales B.B. is a French song written, composed and recorded by Serge Gainsbourg between February and April 1968.
- The song is a tribute to Brigitte Bardot. It was written in 1967.
- It is after a private relationship and a separation, revealed much later by the only two people involved.
- It borrows from the first movement of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 for the music, and from both poem 32 of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven for the first lyrics.
- The narrator reads the novel Love Monster by Louis Pauwels, which Brigitte Bardot had recommended to Serge Gainsbourg, telling him: "Read it! You could meditate on it, it's a book just for you! It is written with a whip: it crackles on every page!
- The heroine pronounces "Almería": it is the city of the definitive break between Serge and Brigitte Bardot: she leaves to shoot the film Shalako with Sean Connery; Gainsbourg never sees her again after her departure.

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