Throughout the 1970s, French singer-songwriter, actor, and bon vivant Serge Gainsbourg and his wife, British singer, actress, and smoking hot sexpot Jane Birkin—in terms of looks, Serge really married up!—were rarely ever photographed doing anything other than looking like they were mere seconds away from full-on copulation. Priding themselves on being two horn dogs in perpetual heat for one another, the musical and romantic collaborators were refreshingly candid about their passionate, “amoral” lifestyle. Together, they broke boundaries in art and in life. Here’s some photographic evidence of the passionate intensity that defined their time together, as artists and as a couple.
The Starfire Lounge 