SERGE GAINSBOURG HISTOIRE DE MELODY NELSON GATEFOLD ALBUM COVER 12" LP VINYL
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Collectors information & Description:Gatefold (FOC) cover design with artwork / photos on the inside cover pages This album "SERGE GAINSBOURG - Histoire de Melody Nelson" is a 1971 concept album by French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. The Lolita-esque pseudo-autobiographical plot involves the middle-aged Gainsbourg unintentionally colliding his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost into teenage nymphet Melody Nelson's bicycle, and the subsequent seduction and romance that ensues. |
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| Histoire de Melody Nelson is considered by many critics and fans to be Gainsbourg's most influential and accomplished album. At just under twenty-eight minutes, the short running time and the stylistic consistency and similarity throughout the album gives it qualities more in line with an EP or an extended musical piece with a number of movements. Histoire de Melody Nelson's mix of freewheeling guitar, funk style bass guitar, near spoken word vocal delivery, and lush, deep orchestrated string and choral arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier who composed almost the entire music in collaboration with Gainsbourg for the album, have proven to be highly influential amongst later francophone and anglophone musical performers including the French band Air, David Holmes, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Portishead, and Beck, whose 2002 track "Paper Tiger" from Sea Change is extremely close to the distinctive Histoire de Melody Nelson sound. | |||
| Music Genre: | Chanson Francaise, French Alternative Pop |
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The album: "SERGE GAINSBOURG - Histoire de Melody Nelson" was produced by: Jean-Claude Desmarty Sound/Recording Engineer(s): Jean-Claude Charvier Album cover photography: Tony Frank |
| Record Label: | Philips 6325 071 |
| Record Format | 12" Vinyl Stereo Gramophone Record Total Album (Cover+Record) weight: 280 gram |
| Year & Country | 1971 Made in France |
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Personnel/Band Members and Musicians on: SERGE GAINSBOURG - Histoire de Melody Nelson |
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Complete Track-listing of the album "SERGE GAINSBOURG - Histoire de Melody Nelson" |
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The detailed tracklist of this record "SERGE GAINSBOURG - Histoire de Melody Nelson" is:
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