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Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson (33 1/3)
Darran Anderson
Bloomsbury Academic
It’s not the job of the wee books in the wonderful 33 1/3 series to give you a potted biography - they might also do that, but the chief concern is the album over the artist. We often find the two are inseparable when it comes to discussion; when it comes to understan…
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