Serge Gainsbourg · Für eine Hand Gitanes

In this, the first English biography to capture Gainsbourg in all his contradiction and gleeful outrageousness, Simmons tells the fascinating story of the Gallic star. Drawing on hours of new interviews with his intimates-among them Jane Birkin, Sly Robbie, Marianne Faithfull, and celebrated producer Philippe Lerichomme-Simmons describes in crackling prose the scope of Gainsbourg's achievement while doing full justice to his complicated emotional life. Simmons's work will stand as the definitive take on a dizzying genius.

### Pressestimmen

"Wer nicht provoziert, hat nichts zu sagen." (*Serge Gainsbourg*)

"Die faszinierendste Musikerbiografie des Jahres." (*The Independent on Sunday*)

"Ein in Stein gegossenes Meisterwerk." (*Stephen Davies*)

"Eine wundervolle Einführung in das Leben eines der unterschätztesten Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts." (*The Times*)

"Die sagenhaft unterhaltsame Biografie des großen Enfant Terrible." (*J.G. Ballard*)