For all of those who cannot go see the Gainsbourg 2008 exhibition at the Cité de la musique here are videos from the major music periods of his career as catalogued by the museum. The exhibition layout is made up of a series of pods with the different eras of his life which are accompanied by the text explaining his inspiration and references, and videos of course.
He has been deemed many negative things but the very touching article from Vanity Fair “The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg” explains him in another light. To say the least, and though he though it was arrogant to name anyone a genius, he truly was one.

The Blue Period (1958 - 1968)

Les Idoles (1965 - 1969)
CHEZ LE YE YE

Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged out of France mostly consistent of female pop singers.
Serge Gainsbourg was consodered a mastermind of the movement, as he wrote most of the songs performed by the yé-yé bunch, but did not quite have a yé-yé attitude himself.

ANNA

Anna Karina & Serge Gainsbourg 1967 from Modcinema.com on Vimeo.
From the 1967 made-for-tv French movie “Anna.” by Pierre Koralnik; a bizarre pop art/comedy/musical filled with bright vibrant colors, strange, hallucinatory scenes.The story is about a man obsessively looking for a woman he saw in a photograph. Serge Gainsbourg composed the music for the film as well as appeared in it.

INITIALS BB

Months after the adulterous love affair between Brigitte Bardot and Gainsbourg he works on the record inspired on Dvořák’s “Symphonie du Nouveau Monde”

La décadanse (1969 - 1979)
JANE B

A carefully re-arrenged Chopin inspired song, whom Gainsbourg loved.

JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS

Does anything have to be said about the song that was banned by the Vatican and made Gainsbour internationally famous.

Ecce - Homo (1979 - 1989)
MODE IN FRANCE

BEAU OUI, COMME BOWIE

SEE VIDEO HERE

CATHERINE DENEUVE

LEMON INCEST

Another controversy…the father daughter video is a bit much, even for the French.

LOVE ON THE BEAT

The only video I could find with Bambou. (His last love affair)

LOVE IN THE BEAT - LIVE

Did anyone know he made his band members dress like him?

Some notorious clips.
THE 500 FRANCS

It’s illegal to burn money in France; Gainsbourg does it on live television to illustrate how much money he has left after paying taxes.

LA PROVOCATION