Serge GAINSBOURG - Story of Melody Nelson - Eric Losfeld.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Story by Melody Nelson.

Very rare booklet published by Éric Losfeld (rue de Verneuil) in 1971.

Volume in-12° (14 x 11cm), paperback, without pagination.

Illustrated cover of the famous portrait of Jane Birkin by Tony Frank.

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A few weeks after the release of the album Histoire de Melody Nelson , on March 24, 1971, Éric Losfeld, lover of Gainsbourg's verses and neighbor of the latter on rue de Verneuil, decided to publish without further detail the entirety of the verses composing the album. 'artwork.

Losfeld's booklet was hardly more successful than Gainsbourg's album, and almost the entire stock of 10,000 printed copies remained inert in the publisher's reserves until it was shelled a few months later.

The work – which has become almost impossible to find – is considered the most valuable in the entire Gainsbourian bibliography.

Note: For more information on the mysterious destiny of this work, see the remarkable podcast produced by Anne Lamotte for France Culture, Looking for Melody Nelson.