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Line 136: In 1982, Gainsbourg contributed his songwriting to French rockstar [[Alain Bashung]]'s album ''[[Play blessures]]'', which was a left turn creatively for Bashung and is often considered a [[cult classic]] despite negative contemporary reviews.<ref name="Telerama">{{cite web \|last1=Porte \|first1=Sébastien \|title=Gaetan Roussel : 'Play blessures est l'album le plus risqué de Bashung' \|url=https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/gaetan-roussel-play-blessures-est-l-album-le-plus-risque-de-bashung,128842.php \|website=[[Telerama]] \|access-date=11 March 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508023321/https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/ga \|archive-date=8 May 2021 \|date=4 July 2015 \|url-status=live}}</ref> His second film as a director, ''[[Équateur (film)\|Équateur]]'' (1983), was adapted from the 1933 novel ''[[Tropic Moon]]'' by Belgian writer [[Georges Simenon]] and is set in colonialist [[French Equatorial Africa]].<ref name="Équateur">{{cite web \|last1=Siclier \|first1=Jacques \|title='ÉQUATEUR', de Serge Gainsbourg Les Blancs malades de l'Afrique noire \|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1983/08/20/equateur-de-serge-gainsbourg-les-blancs-malades-de-l-afrique-noire_3076353_1819218.html \|website=[[Le Monde]] \|access-date=11 March 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311005547/https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1983/08/20/equateur-de-serge-gainsbourg-les-blancs-malades-de-l-afrique-noire_3076353_1819218.html \|archive-date=11 March 2022 \|date=20 August 1983 \|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Love on the Beat]]'' (1984) saw Gainsbourg move on from reggae and onto a more electronic, [[New wave music\|new wave]] inspired sound.<ref name="LoveOnTheBeat">{{cite book \|last1=Anderson \|first1=Darran \|title=Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson \|date=24 October 2013 \|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA \|isbn=978-1-62356-597-8 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZXFAgAAQBAJ \|access-date=11 March 2022 \|language=en}}</ref> The album is known for addressing taboo sexual subject matters, with Gainsbourg dressed in drag on the cover and the highly controversial duet with his daughter [[Charlotte Gainsbourg\|Charlotte]], "[[Lemon Incest]]", which seemed to ~~ambiguously~~clearly refer to ~~the~~his ~~impossible~~fantasy ~~physical~~of ~~love~~wanting ~~between~~to anmake ~~adult~~love ~~and~~to his child.<ref name="LoveOnTheBeat" /><ref name="Scandals" /> The music video for the song featured a half-naked Gainsbourg lying on a bed with Charlotte, leading to further controversy.<ref name="Scandals" /> Nevertheless, it was Gainsbourg's highest-charting song in France. In March 1984, he illegally [[money burning\|burned]] three-quarters of a 500-[[French franc\|French-franc]] bill on television to protest against taxes rising up to 74% of income.<ref name="vanityfair.com" /> In April 1986, on [[Michel Drucker]]'s live Saturday evening television show ''Champs-Élysées'', with the American singer [[Whitney Houston]], he objected to Drucker's translating his comments to Houston and, in English, stated: "I said, I want to fuck her"—Drucker, utterly embarrassed, insisted that this meant "He says you are great..."<ref name="guardian je t'aime">{{cite web \|last1=Chrisafis \|first1=Angelique \|title=Gainsbourg, je t'aime \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/apr/14/7 \|website=[[The Guardian]] \|access-date=9 March 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717072523/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/apr/14/7 \|archive-date=17 July 2021 \|date=14 April 2006 \|url-status=live}}</ref> That same year, in another talk show interview, he appeared alongside [[Les Rita Mitsouko]] singer [[Catherine Ringer]]. Gainsbourg spat out at her, "You're nothing but a filthy whore" to which Ringer replied, "look at you, you're just a bitter old alcoholic...you've become a disgusting old parasite."<ref name="GuardianDrag">{{cite web \|last1=Kent \|first1=Nick \|title=What a drag \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/apr/15/popandrock \|website=[[The Guardian]] \|access-date=12 March 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614224912/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/apr/15/popandrock \|archive-date=14 June 2021 \|date=15 April 2006 \|url-status=live}}</ref> Gainsbourg's final partner until his death was the model [[Caroline Paulus]], better known by her stage name Bambou.<ref name="Wives" /> They had a son, Lucien (b. 5 January 1986), who now goes by the name Lulu and is a musician.<ref name="Wives" /><ref name="ALLMUSIC">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/serge-gainsbourg-gmn0000174822/biography\|title=Serge Gainsbourg Biography, Songs, & Albums\|website=[[AllMusic]]\|access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref> His 1986 film ''[[Charlotte for Ever (film)\|Charlotte for Ever]]'' further expanded on the themes found in "Lemon Incest". He starred in the film alongside Charlotte as a widowed, alcoholic father living with his daughter.<ref name="Scandals" /> An [[Charlotte for Ever\|album of the same name]] by Charlotte was also written by Gainsbourg.<ref name="CForever">{{cite web \|last1=Hunter-Tilney \|first1=Ludovic \|title='I like being manipulated' \|url=https://www.ft.com/content/97796e0a-3bb2-11e1-bb39-00144feabdc0 \|website=[[Financial Times]] \|access-date=12 March 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610103249/https://www.ft.com/content/97796e0a-3bb2-11e1-bb39-00144feabdc0 \|archive-date=10 June 2021 \|date=13 January 2012 \|url-status=live}}</ref>

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