Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody NelsonDarran Anderson (Author) Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, pote maudit, Pop Artist, libertine and anti hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature