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“I was for a very long time passionately in love with her, as I’m sure she’s guessed. Every male in the world, and a number of females also were, and we all still are.” ―David Bowie
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While everybody was going berserk for the Beatles, France went its own way and this is a frank memoir by the sultry singer, best known for Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles.
She details her dysfunctional marriage to the actor/singer, Jacques Dutronc. When he has affairs, she says, “We should rejoice when someone else gives the man in your life what you are no longer able to give him.”
Plenty of information the decadent Serge Gainsbourg; everytime he enters the narrative; you know something bizarre is going to happen. The title isn’t explained until the final page.
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