The decreed it should never be heard on its airwaves. The Pope deplored it. In , when Phonogram Records released Jane Birkin's highly sexually explicit duet with lover Serge Gainsbourg in 1969, the head of the company was thrown into jail.Yet it thrilled the public, especially teenage boys, the world over and became the first banned single to reach the top of the UK charts — also the first foreign language song to do so — selling more than eight million copies.And Birkin, who recorded the world's most erotic record, Je T'Aime . . . Moi Non Plus, weeks after meeting the famously louche Gainsbourg, adored the No 1 hit and never disowned it.
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