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| | SERGE GAINSBOURG / HISTOIRE DE MELODY NELSON |
 | | The album is about a lecherous, middle-aged, Rolls-Royce driving Frenchman (Serge, of course) who runs into a virginal teenage cyclist-vixen (played by his young and beautiful British-actor wife, Jane Birkin, who sings on the album and appears on its cover seductively clutching a rag doll against her bare breasts hello dolly!). |
 | | The affair ends in rock-opera tragedy, with the flighty Melody killed in a plane crash, leaving behind a shattered wreck of a man to tell us his harrowing tale on "Cargo Culte." These scintillating details should provide enough grist to set any good Anglo-Saxon imagination grinding. |
 | | Story aside, the music on Melody Nelson is way ahead of its timean experimental blending of spoken-word vocals, lushly epic pop strings, soaring choir voices, funk-flavored rock grooves and loud guitar. |
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