This March 2, 2023 marks the 32nd anniversary of the disappearance of Serge Gainsbourg. An anniversary that prompted Jane Birkin to confide in March 2, 1991, the sad day the artist left us.
On March 2, 1991, Serge Gainsbourg died of a heart attack. After a life of excess marked by successes and failures, the artist went alone to his apartment located rue Verneuil in the 7th arrondissement of the capital. Serge Gainsbourg’s body was found naked, lying on the floor of his bedroom. And if the man had a career and a life at 100 an hour surrounded by many celebrities, it was in solitude that he spent his last moments of life.
“I have never known anyone more lonely than Serge at his end, there is no one with him when he dies”entrusts the designer Maurice Renoma in the columns of Vanity Fair on the anniversary of the singer’s death. Since 1975, the two men have become inseparable. The stylist remembers a “very weak” man two years before his death in 1989, during a tour in Japan. “He feels unwell in his dressing room, can no longer tie his shoelaces and asks me for a pre-mortem photo”, remembers with sadness his friend.
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Although he was alone to breathe his last, Serge Gainsbourg brought together many stars who came to pay tribute to him for his funeral. More than 30 years after his disappearance, Jane Birkin, who was one of the muses of the singer, remembers this terrible day in 1991 during which she learned of the death of the one she loved so much. When she hears the news that day, the singer immediately leaves the English capital to go to Paris. Arriving near rue Verneuil where the singer lived in Paris, Jane Birkin remembers a crowd of people who came to pay tribute to the artist.
In front of Serge Gainsbourg’s house, “people were singing La Javanaise in the street”, she remembers with our colleagues from Entertainment TV. Jane Birkin finally manages to make her way through the crowd to enter Serge Gainsbourg’s home. The scene that follows has remained forever in the memory of the singer. “I saw Kate, Charlotte and Bamboo, surrounding her. It is this vision that remains with me. My last vision of Serge is imprinted in me“, she confides. More than thirty years after the events, Jane Birkin confides that she has always avoided setting foot in this district filled with memories. Memories of another time, which sometimes give him the impression that this life was lived by another person.