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Serge Gainsbourg composed this song in 1967 originally for Brigitte Bardot. The most famous rendition emerged in 1969 as a collaborative performance between Gainsbourg and British actress Jane Birkin. This version achieved significant chart success, reaching the top position in the United Kingdom as the inaugural foreign-language song to accomplish this feat, and the second position in Ireland. However, its explicitly sexual nature resulted in bans across multiple countries.
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