Bastille Day is Serge Gainsbourg day
Here is the great
man in 1979 with his version of “La Marseillaise”, recorded in Jamaica with
Sly and Robbie as rhythm section and the I-Threes (Rita
Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths) who were maybe the Jamaican
equivalent of the Sweet
Inspirations:
And here is the dub
version.
Oh, le smoking! Le chain smoking! Those were the days when cigarettes were cool and, man, were they cool! But, now, all I want to do is deconstruct the text/visuals of the video. Mad, eh?
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