70's icon Jane Birkin dies

[Cycleops]

The British born actress and singer Jane Birkin has died aged 76 from cancer.
Best known for her sexually explicit ballad 'J'taime' with her partner Serge Gainsborough. Banned in several countries, I'm sure everyone of a certain age remembers it. They were dubbed in Private Eye as Jane Firkin and Surge Forward.
She died at her home in Paris.


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jul/16/jane-birkin-actor-and-singer-dies-aged-76

 

[DaveReading]

Sexually explicit?

I always thought she and Serge were just struggling up a hill in too high a gear.

 

[slowmotion]

Sexually explicit?

I always thought she and Serge were just struggling up a hill in too high a gear.

It was a great favourite as one of the last songs of the night in sweaty teenage discos.

 

[Cycleops]

I remember that when they got together it gave hope to us ugly blokes that we could pull a pretty girl.

 

[raleighnut]

Sad news

 

[mistyoptic]

The Private Eye spoof is brilliant

 

[Cycleops]

The Private Eye spoof is brilliant

Was that on one of their records?

Couldn't find it on YouTube but found this by Frankie Howerd and June Whitfield:


View: https://youtu.be/PguPq2SphYU

 

[slowmotion]

I remember that when they got together it gave hope to us ugly blokes that we could pull a pretty girl.

....hopes that were cruelly dashed in my case........

 

[Drago]

Didn't she used to race a Bentley?

 

[Chislenko]

It's quite amazing how the world has changed. Their song being banned but nowadays you can listen anywhere to the "offering" from Syndicate.

The curious can Google the track.

 

[Cycleops]

It's quite amazing how the world has changed. Their song being banned but nowadays you can listen anywhere to the "offering" from Syndicate.

The curious can Google the track.

Quite a change from BITD when the head of Parlophone records that released it was jailed in Italy. The Pope hated it.

Apparently Gainsbourg wrote the song for his previous lover Bridgette Bardot.
The Birkin version was so overtly orgasmic that a rumour spread among French journalists that the couple had actually taped themselves having sex. Gainsbourg scoffed at the claim — if that were true, he said, Je T'Aime could never have been a single. It would have to be a long-playing record, at least.

 

[a.twiddler]

If you are of a certain age, that is very sad to hear.

 

[mistyoptic]

Was that on one of their records?

Couldn't find it on YouTube but found this by Frankie Howerd and June Whitfield:


View: https://youtu.be/PguPq2SphYU

“Sex Education for the Under 5s” by Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore. I can’t remember if it was on Spotify or iTunes or Amazon

 

[rogerzilla]

Daily Heil is waxing lyrical. If she were 20 today, they'd probably call her a trollop.