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Birkin’s voice wafts in like a refrain, whispering “Melody Nelson” as intensely as though she’s trying to pull Gainsbourg out of a coma.

Its musical appeal is greatly indebted to composer-arranger Jean-Claude Vannier and producer Jean-Claude Charvier, who took the original backing tapes from a London session (featuring Dougie Wright, Herbie Flowers, Big Jim Sullivan, Vic Flick) and painstakingly married them up with a 30-strong string section that swoops and wheels around the loping backbeats in a kind of concerto for funk group and chamber orchestra.īut any pleasure in its seductive texture must be tempered as soon as its disquieting subject matter unfolds. Melody Nelson is generally regarded as Gainsbourg’s career high, fêted by the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Beck, David Holmes, Portishead and Air.