Serge Gainsbourg – Autograph manuscript – Tandem

Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)

Autograph manuscript – Tandem

Six quarto pages on watermarked paper.

Slnd [Paris. April 1990]

Exceptional first draft manuscript of the legendary song performed by Vanessa Paradis in 1990, Tandem .

The album Variations sur le même t’aime, recorded from February to April 1990 in the Guillaume Tell Studios, is the last album on which Serge Gainsbourg worked.

The album was released on May 28, 1990, and was a tremendous success. It sold 400,000 copies and was certified gold and platinum. The singles " Tandem , " "Dis-lui toi que je t'aime," and "L'Amour en soi" also became huge hits.

Serge Gainsbourg died 9 months after the release of the album, his last work which would mark the beginning of a great career for Vanessa Paradis.

To pay tribute to Gainsbourg, on the 10th anniversary of his death, the album was reissued and sold another 400,000 copies.

Tandem

In the word I love you / Tandem / Too many m's / Of m's and n's / And never ever a single n'

Always in love / Of love

It's the pros and cons connected IBM program / It's often hate / On FM

I know that at blackjack / You like black people / But deep down you're in black and white

I agree / I say all right / Don't confuse the day and the night

In the word I love you / Tandem / So many m

You'll need to plug it into the FM radio / Sometimes it shines like a tiara

Always the same theme / Tandem It's the same / You should tune in to FM

Soon the crash I don't know when

You're good at math/ basic math/ But you become bleak in advanced math

In love always / It's the pros / Or cons IBM program strikes

Each night brings its own punishment / Or its opposite / You reap what you sow