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Serge Gainsbourg: Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie & Clyde, and Orgasmic Pop Songs · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about
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  Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg are insane. They involve illicit romance, scandalous pop
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  Speaker 1: songs condemned by the Vatican, and shocking liaisons too forbidden.
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  Speaker 1: The last he carried out a whirlwind affair with Bridge
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  Speaker 1: of Bardoux at a time when she was not only
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  Speaker 1: the premier sex symbol in the world but married to
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  Speaker 1: a powerful millionaire. Her love inspired him toward a creative breakthrough,
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  Speaker 1: just as their fling barreled toward a doomed ending, an
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  Speaker 1: ending that resulted in a cease and desist letter, in
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  Speaker 1: the physical destruction of great music. Unlike that music I
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  Speaker 1: played for you at the top of the show. That
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  Speaker 1: wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my
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  Speaker 1: melotron called Jazz Hands Confidential MK. One. I played you
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  Speaker 1: that clip because I can't afford the rights to Hello
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye by the Beatles. Now, why would I play you
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  Speaker 1: that specific slice of Yes No High, Low Stop Go Cheese?
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  Speaker 1: Could I afford it? Because that was the number one
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  Speaker 1: song in America on January second, nineteen sixty eight, And
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  Speaker 1: that was the day that Serge Gainsburg and Bridget Bardeaux
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  Speaker 1: released the album Bonnie and Clyde, a starcross collaboration so
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  Speaker 1: powerful that it stopped them from ever again making music together.
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  Speaker 1: On this episode, Illicit Romance, Scandalous Songs, Shocking Liaisons, Bonnie
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  Speaker 1: and Clyde, Bridget Bardou and Serge Gainsburg, I'm Jake Brennan
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  Speaker 1: and this is Disgraceland West, Dallas, Texas, nineteen thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Bonnie Parker was glad to be
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  Speaker 1: out of jail, but not thrilled to be home. She
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be with Clyde, out on the road, living
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  Speaker 1: by the gun, living fast. But Bonnie wasn't so fast,
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  Speaker 1: not like Clyde and the others. She had strengths, like
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  Speaker 1: her loyalty, but outrunning a posse was not one of them,
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  Speaker 1: which was how she wound up separated from the gang.
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  Speaker 1: In the first place. They were hauling ass through an
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  Speaker 1: unforgiving swamp, law men hot on their trail, gunshots echoing
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  Speaker 1: in the near distance. Bonnie knew she was too slow.
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  Speaker 1: At this rate, they'd all get caught. Even Clyde was
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  Speaker 1: later than she was, limping like he did on account
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  Speaker 1: of the two toes he purposefully cut off his left foot.
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  Speaker 1: That was a prison hack, figuratively and literally, in a
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  Speaker 1: bloody painful one at that not as painful as the
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  Speaker 1: rape that he endured day in and day out for
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  Speaker 1: an entire year at the hands of another inmate, A
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  Speaker 1: year of sexual torture and degradation that Clyde eventually ended
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  Speaker 1: with a lead pipe split that raypie fucker's head right
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  Speaker 1: in two, and then he split off his own toes
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  Speaker 1: with an axe blade. That little stunt got him off
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  Speaker 1: work detail and eventually got him paroled. These days, it
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  Speaker 1: went without saying Clyde Barrow was not going back to prison,
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  Speaker 1: so Bonnie stayed behind. She let the pose capture her
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  Speaker 1: and drag her to the town single jail cell, and
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  Speaker 1: then she told the judge that Clyde's gang had kidnapped
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  Speaker 1: her and forced her to go along as they unsuccessfully
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  Speaker 1: tried to knock over a hardware store. Of course, it
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  Speaker 1: was bullshit. Bonnie Parker was no damsel in distress. She
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  Speaker 1: was as complicit as the rest of them. But she
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  Speaker 1: told the lie to avoid hard time. And she told
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  Speaker 1: another lie, this one to her mother, that she was
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  Speaker 1: done with Clyde Barrow for good. Which suited her mother
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  Speaker 1: just fine, because Clyde Barrow wasn't welcome here. Clyde was
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  Speaker 1: a degenerate and outlaw, a man who robbed banks and
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  Speaker 1: corner stores, a man who stole cars and took lawman hostage,
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  Speaker 1: all while the decent people of America sank into a
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  Speaker 1: great depression and struggled to make ends meet. Bonnie didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell her mother that Clyde was coming back for her.
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  Speaker 1: Clyde was the best man she knew. He made her
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  Speaker 1: feel wanted. He listened to her, and she listened too,
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  Speaker 1: about how Clyde, a high school dropout, was never going
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  Speaker 1: to make a decent wage at an honest job and
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  Speaker 1: never wear the clothes other people wore, or drive their cars,
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  Speaker 1: not legally, that is, Clyde was a have not I
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  Speaker 1: never will. And the two lovers bonded in their mutual frustration,
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  Speaker 1: and then they did something about it together. But tonight
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie and Clyde were not together, not yet at least.
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  Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow was behind the wheel of a stone Ford
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  Speaker 1: V eight rolling through a stringtown, Oklahoma, a one horse
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  Speaker 1: town perhaps, but still he knew it was a bad
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  Speaker 1: idea to stop Clyde's reputation preceded him, So did the
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  Speaker 1: murder of a jewelry shop owner some four hours south
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  Speaker 1: in Hillsboro, Texas. That man didn't have to die. He
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  Speaker 1: put his own fate in motion, though the moment that
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  Speaker 1: he reached for the gun he kept next to his cash,
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  Speaker 1: one of Clyde's guys beat him to it. Bang dead.
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  Speaker 1: Made no difference that Clyde didn't pull the trigger. He
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  Speaker 1: was the face of the gang, a gang that had
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  Speaker 1: finally crossed the line from stick up men to cold
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  Speaker 1: blooded killers. One of those guys, Raymond, wanted a party.
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  Speaker 1: String Town's open pavilion shone bright in the darkness. A
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  Speaker 1: guitar and fiddle played hillbilly music while the locals danced
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  Speaker 1: and passed around flasks of bootleg whiskey. In a swankie
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  Speaker 1: stolen suit, Raymond stuck out like a sore thumb did
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  Speaker 1: over Clyde, idling in his fancy va. It was time
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  Speaker 1: to move on before they pressed their luck a little
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  Speaker 1: too far. Clyde called Raymond back. Raymond didn't return alone.
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  Speaker 1: The county sheriff was here now, leaning inside the ford's
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  Speaker 1: open window. He'd made Clyde by sight, or on a hunch,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps he spied the gun in the back seat. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff played it cool. He politely informed Clyde that
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  Speaker 1: they were all under arrest. Clyde thought of that dead
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  Speaker 1: shop owner in Hillsboro, prison work, detail, the abuse, the humiliation,
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  Speaker 1: and then he thought about Bonnie. How he would do
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  Speaker 1: anything I see her again. Anything. Clyde and Raymond drew
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  Speaker 1: their guns and fired through the open window. The sheriff
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  Speaker 1: was blown back off the ford and landed on the street.
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  Speaker 1: His pistol hit the ground. A bystander picked it up
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  Speaker 1: and began to shoot. He was joined by the Condes
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  Speaker 1: under sheriff, who came running up with a sidearm, blasting
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  Speaker 1: Clyde through the ford in a first and hit the gas.
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  Speaker 1: The car lurched forward and slammed into a culvert. It
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  Speaker 1: rolled the horndo its side, stuck. Clyde and Ramon pulled
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  Speaker 1: themselves from the wreck, pistols first fire and round after round.
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  Speaker 1: The under sheriff was hit. He dropped to the dirt dead.
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  Speaker 1: Clyde and Raymond scrambled for the woods, chaotically shooting behind
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  Speaker 1: their backs as they ran away from the commotion. Clyde
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  Speaker 1: found another car, he hot wired in and drove it
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  Speaker 1: for a few miles, and then ditched it for the
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  Speaker 1: next one. He did this numerous times, thinking it would
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  Speaker 1: cover his tracks keep the cops guessing. Cops who at
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  Speaker 1: this very moment were assembling knew posse to track down
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  Speaker 1: what was quickly becoming one of the most infamous crime
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  Speaker 1: gangs in the country. But no posse was taking clyde barrow.
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  Speaker 1: Not today. He quickly made his way back to West Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: where Bonnie Parker was waiting for him, And when he
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  Speaker 1: reached her and put her hand in his once more,
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  Speaker 1: something clicked. It was electric. Bonnie and Clyde would never
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  Speaker 1: be a part again. Paris, nineteen sixty seven. Bridget Bardow
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  Speaker 1: let her hand wander underneath the table until it met his.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't expecting what happened next. A shock, a vibration, emotion,
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  Speaker 1: and lust cascading in a physical ripple that shot up
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  Speaker 1: her arm and enveloped her entire body. She looked deep
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  Speaker 1: into his eyes and felt the connection mental, physical, spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the world fell away. It crumbled, it burned,
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  Speaker 1: It sank into the ocean, and was swallowed by the ground.
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  Speaker 1: From this moment on, it was just the two of them.
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  Speaker 1: Before she took hold of his hand, Serge Gainsburg was
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  Speaker 1: already in awe of the woman sitting across from him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just look at her s Bridget Bardo, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about just like millions of other men around the world,
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  Speaker 1: the Surge was undeniably drawn to the French sex symbols
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  Speaker 1: jaqui okay, actually that's bullshit. We do in fact sequa
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  Speaker 1: we sequa treviien. But Serge Gainsburg was different. He knew this.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't traditionally handsome like Jacques Dutrump or Johnny Halliday.
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  Speaker 1: He thought his ears were too big, his mug was
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  Speaker 1: too ugly. He was just a songwriter, an unorthodox He
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  Speaker 1: had a provocative singer who for years tried unsuccessfully to
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  Speaker 1: fit in with French chanson or French ya ya, before
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  Speaker 1: a big win at the Eurovision Song Contest suddenly put
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  Speaker 1: him on the world map. He didn't realize that at
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  Speaker 1: the time, but he wasn't destined to fall in line.
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  Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg would redefine French music. More on that later,
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  Speaker 1: Bridget Bardou, she didn't just want Serge Gainsburg to write
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  Speaker 1: songs for her. She wanted him. Their blossoming romance was
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  Speaker 1: by definition not only surprising but illicid. Bridget Bardeau was
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  Speaker 1: married to a German playboy, but Bridget Bardoux got off
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  Speaker 1: on the illicit and twice divorced. Serge Gainsburg was as
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  Speaker 1: much an agent provocateur as he was a musician. After all,
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  Speaker 1: this is the man who followed up that Eurovision win
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  Speaker 1: by writing a song called Les Susette for an eighteen
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  Speaker 1: year old chantouse who thought she was singing about how
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  Speaker 1: much she liked to suck on lollipops. But well, you
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  Speaker 1: get the picture. So for Bridget Bardeaux and Serge Gainsburg,
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  Speaker 1: keeping their newfound love under raps only added to its allure,
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  Speaker 1: and it greatly inspired Surge to write songs unlike he
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  Speaker 1: or anyone else in the French pop world were writing
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  Speaker 1: songs like Bonnie and Clyde, both epically romantic and also
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  Speaker 1: patently fucking weird. A duet between Bridget and Surge the
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  Speaker 1: Beauty and the Beast. The duo performed the song on
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  Speaker 1: French TV on January first, nineteen sixty eight, but they
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  Speaker 1: kept the chemistry very detached so French surge sleeves, rolled up,
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  Speaker 1: ty loosened, gun in a shoulder holster, puffing on a
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  Speaker 1: half smoke. Gitm Bardeaux in a long skirt with an
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  Speaker 1: even longer slit, Garters beret, black eyeliner, Tommy gun in
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  Speaker 1: her very capable hands. They weren't actually Bonnie and Clyde,
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  Speaker 1: not really, But like Bonnie and Clyde, they were empowered
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  Speaker 1: by lust, if not love, they were consumed with passion.
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  Speaker 1: But the provocative nature of their union, it's illicitness. It
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  Speaker 1: was either truly beautiful or it was doomed. They didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing mattered as long as they were together. Dexfield Park, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three. Bonnie Parker sat lookout in the passenger
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  Speaker 1: seat of a Ford VA not the same V eight
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  Speaker 1: that her lover and partner in crime, Clyde Barrow, had
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  Speaker 1: rolled into a culver back in Stringtown, Oklahoma, nearly a
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  Speaker 1: year prior, and not the other V eight that Clyde
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  Speaker 1: had just recently crashed in Wellington, Texas, doing seventy on
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  Speaker 1: a pitch black night. He didn't see the detour science
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  Speaker 1: or that the road ahead was closed. The wooden barricade.
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  Speaker 1: It was no match for Clyde's lead foot in that particular,
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  Speaker 1: V rolled over half a dozen times before coming to
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  Speaker 1: arrest in a river bed. Battery, acid hot boiling leaped
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  Speaker 1: out onto Bonnie's leg, each drop sizzling her skin, the
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  Speaker 1: smell of burning flesh, flesh that was being flayed away
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  Speaker 1: right before her eyes, right down to the bone which
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  Speaker 1: was now poking out for all to see. Well, at
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  Speaker 1: least they had each other, That's what Bonnie told herself.
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  Speaker 1: But Bonnie needed more than Clyde's love and support right now.
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  Speaker 1: Her leg was a mess. It was only a matter
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  Speaker 1: of time before some bacterial infection set in, maybe even
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  Speaker 1: gay and green. Bonnie needed medical supplies, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the gang needed food and new clothes. Thus Bonnie
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  Speaker 1: sat and yet another stone forward V Eight while Clyde
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  Speaker 1: ran errands on Main Street, USA. Legit errants, not robberies,
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  Speaker 1: all the same. It was a risk. Their names were
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  Speaker 1: all over the papers and their pictures too, thanks to
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  Speaker 1: undeveloped rolls of film they left in a car after
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  Speaker 1: a shootout and drop them Missouri. Dozens of pictures, pictures
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  Speaker 1: that showed a murderous gang in the middle of a
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  Speaker 1: crime spree, goofing off Bonnie pretending to hold Clyde at gunpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie with her foot up on the fender of a sedan,
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  Speaker 1: handgun in her right hand, cigar in her mouth. They
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  Speaker 1: flaunted both their notoriety and their elusiveness in front of
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  Speaker 1: the whole country, a country full of people who wanted
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  Speaker 1: to tear Bonnie and Clyde apart, like the people of Stringtown,
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  Speaker 1: their under sheriff dead. Or Joplin, where Clyde littered a
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  Speaker 1: posse with bullets from his Browning automatic rifle, hitting a
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  Speaker 1: police officer in the face and nearly severing his arm
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  Speaker 1: from his body. And over in Plate City, where a
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  Speaker 1: shootout seriously wounded Clyde's brother Buck, the left Buck's wife Blanche,
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  Speaker 1: with shards of glass in her eyes. Buck and Blanche
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: were new arrivals to the Barrel gang. Buck had only
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  Speaker 1: recently left the joint, and he was rusty. Rusty enough
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  Speaker 1: to catch a slug from a highway patrolman that came
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  Speaker 1: screaming through the air swiftly entered his left temple and
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  Speaker 1: exploded out of his forehead, ripped off a piece of
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  Speaker 1: his skull. It fucked him up and slowed him down,
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  Speaker 1: and he couldn't move, not like his brother and the
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  Speaker 1: others were moving. Now. Rousted from their hiding place in
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  Speaker 1: Dexfield Park at five in the morning, not because Clyde
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  Speaker 1: was caught running errands in town because some goodie two
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  Speaker 1: shoots fucko couldn't mind his own business when he stumbled
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  Speaker 1: upon their makeshift campsite. The mob that had shown up
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  Speaker 1: to capture them was about fifty people strong. Most of
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  Speaker 1: them lickered up. The outlaws were quickly surrounded, and they
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  Speaker 1: began to shoot their way out. Tiste shotguns, Clyde's browning
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  Speaker 1: and the posse retaliated. So many holes blasted into the
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  Speaker 1: V eight and the gang was forced to hit the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Running down a hill tore the river. Clyde kept firing
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  Speaker 1: as forty five until all he heard were empty clicks.
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie was slow, slower than usual, even her bad leg
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  Speaker 1: throbbed every time she took a step. Buck's whole world spinning,
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  Speaker 1: the wind, blowing a violent cas where his skull was
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  Speaker 1: missing and his brain was exposed. Clyde knew it was
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  Speaker 1: either Bonnie or his brother. He couldn't help them both,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd already made the decision to never leave Bonnie
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  Speaker 1: behind again, so Clyde grabbed Bonnie and ran. He dragged
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  Speaker 1: her down the hill. More shots rang out behind them.
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie felt a burning sensation there in her abdomenue. She
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  Speaker 1: looked down. Her nightgown was soaked with blood. Clyde didn't
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  Speaker 1: let go. They made it to the river, then into
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  Speaker 1: dense brush. They had a few minutes tops before the
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  Speaker 1: posse was on top of them. Most likely they'd stopped
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  Speaker 1: to deal with Buck and probably blanched too, seeing as
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  Speaker 1: her wounds were just as much of a liability. But
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  Speaker 1: Clyde couldn't worry about that. Now he had to worry
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  Speaker 1: about Bonnie. He remained calm and found a nearby farm
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  Speaker 1: pointed as empty forty five at the family and told
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  Speaker 1: him he was taking their nineteen twenty nine Plymouth and
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  Speaker 1: he laid Bonnie down in the back seat, and then
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  Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow, got behind the wheel, hit the gas and
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  Speaker 1: drove bridget Bardou approached the motorcycle wearing black thigh high
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  Speaker 1: boots and a black leather mini skirt. Her eyeliner was black,
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  Speaker 1: her hair was blonde. Sex on fool so hot that
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  Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg's TV screen appeared to be melting. She was
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  Speaker 1: a French female Jim Morrison lighting the fire of anyone
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  Speaker 1: who watched, and oh boy did they watch. Surge and
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  Speaker 1: everyone else with a television and a pulse watched as
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  Speaker 1: Bridget Bardowu lip synced her new single Harley Davidson, another
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  Speaker 1: of Surge's infectious compositions. Bridget couldn't care less about motorcycles.
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  Speaker 1: If she was being honest, Fast cars were her thing.
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  Speaker 1: Her Triumph spitfire with the top down didn't matter. This
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  Speaker 1: song was about the vibe, about freedom, rebellion, about how
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  Speaker 1: it was better to die than to let someone else
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  Speaker 1: tell you how to live your life. Real love, vigilanti shit.
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  Speaker 1: Bridget Bardeau and Serge Gainsburg were love outlaws on the lamb,
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  Speaker 1: not from the law, but from the papers, the paparazzi.
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  Speaker 1: They tooled around Paris and her Triumph, Bridget behind the
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  Speaker 1: wheel and the smoke from Serge's cigarette leaving a pungent trail,
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  Speaker 1: and the awake one minute here and the next gone.
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  Speaker 1: Bridget was quickly realizing that her marriage to gun their
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  Speaker 1: sacks playboy, a multi millionaire jack of all trades, but
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  Speaker 1: Master of None was a sham. She didn't love him,
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  Speaker 1: not in the purest sense. She didn't want him like
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  Speaker 1: a truck. She didn't watch the world disintegrate before her
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  Speaker 1: very eyes when she touched him. At that moment, Sergia's
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  Speaker 1: hand touched hers on the gearshift. She hit the clutch
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  Speaker 1: with her left foot and punched it into third. Surge's
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  Speaker 1: heart skipped a beat. She made him feel like a
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  Speaker 1: man twenty one years old, not forty, back when he
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  Speaker 1: was still green, up late playing music in nightclubs, up
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  Speaker 1: early to paint, burning that candle, courses in composition and orchestration,
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  Speaker 1: learning the difference between cabarets and music halls. I was
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: like the clap, but it was the everyday listeners who
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  Speaker 1: plunk down cash, never enough cash. It had seemed, at
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  Speaker 1: least for a time, a prolonged period of time, when
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  Speaker 1: Phillips Records enjoyed having Surged on their roster. Even a
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: few people were buying his albums. But then it all changed.
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  Speaker 1: First Eurovision, then BB as she was known. Their first
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  Speaker 1: date a disaster. He could hardly believe she was interested
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  Speaker 1: in him, of all people. His confidence was shot. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he was just drunk. He wanted to make it up
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  Speaker 1: to her with a gift a song, the most beautiful
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  Speaker 1: love song he could imagine. Serge Gainsburg played Je tem
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  Speaker 1: Juana pou for Bridge Bardoux on her piano, a duet
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  Speaker 1: between two lovers as they have breathless passionate sex. The
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  Speaker 1: ultimate fuck song, but then also the ultimate anti fuck
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  Speaker 1: song too. That Surge who was put it, seeing as
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  Speaker 1: the title translates to I love you me neither as
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  Speaker 1: in come on you, and I know that this is
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  Speaker 1: just some raw animal attraction, no need to attach an
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  Speaker 1: actual emotion to it, which was either Surge's own anxiety's
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  Speaker 1: talking or just as trademark Deadpan's sense of humor. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: it was, in Surge's mind his first real love song,
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  Speaker 1: just as real as the recording session that followed. Barclay Studios, Paris,
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  Speaker 1: Surge and Bridget stepped inside a small glass vocal booth
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  Speaker 1: and closed the door behind them. They stood chest to
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  Speaker 1: chest in front of the same microphone. The backing track
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  Speaker 1: began to play in their headphones. A dramatic swirl of
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  Speaker 1: strings and organ consumed the three piece backing band like
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  Speaker 1: a slow moving tornado of ecstasy. The studio lights dimmed
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  Speaker 1: and the two sang. Then Bridget began to moan jetten.
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  Speaker 1: Surge touched her body with his hand and the two
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: felt that electric shock again. He knew his detached response
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: would drive her wild. One on Plue tailed with a shudder.
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  Speaker 1: Sem She made more noises, no words, though, just sounds
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  Speaker 1: of orgasmic euphoria, each sound going straight into the microphone
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  Speaker 1: and straight to the bulch and Surge his pants. He
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  Speaker 1: thought of her back at his place in his bed,
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  Speaker 1: one hand running up the curve of her naked thigh
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  Speaker 1: and the other clasping a gton smokee down to the filter,
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  Speaker 1: and the windows of the vocal booth fogged up. The
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  Speaker 1: song ended. Serge Gainsburg bass in the afterglow, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: jateem Monapleaux was the most provocative piece of music he'd
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: recorded to date. That alone would be huge for sales.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: It would also blow the lid off the worst kept
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: secret in France that he and Bridget Bardoux were fucking.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: He didn't care let the whole world know. The record
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  Speaker 1: plant began to press promotional forty five's, and before it
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  Speaker 1: was even released, the word was out. The new Surge,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Gainsbury and Bridget Bardeau single was scandalous. Four minutes and
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  Speaker 1: thirty five seconds of a Morris panting as Paris's Sunday
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  Speaker 1: paper called it, word reached. Gunther Sachs, Bridget's multi millionaire
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  Speaker 1: playboy husband, was beside himself. He wasn't about to sit
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  Speaker 1: idly by while his wife made sex records with that
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  Speaker 1: clownish Quasimoto. Never mind what it would do to her career,
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  Speaker 1: It would make a fool out of him, and Gunter
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  Speaker 1: Sachs was no fool. The next morning, a letter arrived
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  Speaker 1: at Serge's house Cease and desist, destroy all copies Ger
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  Speaker 1: tim mona pleux no longer existed. Serge Gainsburg and Bridget
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  Speaker 1: Barde We're done. We'll be right back after this word
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  Speaker 1: word word. Texas Highway one, fourteen Easter Sunday, nineteen thirty four,
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  Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow leaned against the latest stone Ford VA parked
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the road. With his brother Buck
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  Speaker 1: dead and gone. It was now more important than ever
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  Speaker 1: to pay visits to family back in West Dallas, especially
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  Speaker 1: around the holidays. But Clyde Barrow and his outlaw lover,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Bonnie Parker, were the most sought after criminals of the country,
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  Speaker 1: and that made visits tough, so instead of going to
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  Speaker 1: family in the city, they arranged for family to meet
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  Speaker 1: them at strategic spots out in the country, like this
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  Speaker 1: isolated stretch of road where they now waited for people
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  Speaker 1: to arrive. And people did arrive, just not the people
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  Speaker 1: they were expecting. Bonnie was sitting in the passenger seat
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: thinking about how much her leg continued to bother her.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: They had yet to find proper medical treatment for her injuries.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Bones still protruded from the skin. She drank whiskey to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: take the edge off, so did Henry Methfinn, the only
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  Speaker 1: other member of the Barrow game here at the moment
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: standing next to Clyde. Henry was a convict who managed
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  Speaker 1: to escape from a prison farm a few months earlier
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  Speaker 1: when Bonnie and Clyde staged a dramatic breakout for another
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  Speaker 1: gang member that left one guard dead in its wake.
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  Speaker 1: Henry was new here, and Henry was drunk. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: fully understand Clyde Barrow's code that Clyde didn't actually want
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  Speaker 1: to kill anyone. Well, the son of a bitch who
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: raped him back in prisoned to what was coming, but
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: out here on the road. Clyde only shot when he
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: was out of other options, which happened far more frequently
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: than he liked. He was actually more fond of taking
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: CoP's prisoner when the gang wasn't outnumbered, that is, show
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: them what he was capable of, show them that he
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: had some compassion Henry. Though Henry wasn't feeling very compassionate
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  Speaker 1: when they heard the rumble of motorcycles coming from down
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  Speaker 1: the road. He was just buzzing on some high proof liquor.
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  Speaker 1: Soon two figures came into view, not Bonnie and Clyde's families,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: two Texas Highway patrola riding two wheelers with shotguns strapped
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  Speaker 1: to the side. Henry grabbed his rifle and hit it
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: behind his back. Roll slowed their bikes upon approach. Clyde
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to wait to see if they would be recognized.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take them, he told Henry, meaning let's force them
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: at gunpoint inside the car and take them for a ride.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Henry knew and drunk interpreted it in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: He quickly pulled his rifle from behind his back and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: aimed it at one of the cops point blank. He
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: pulled the trigger and The cop was blown off his
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: bike and hit the dirt dead on impact. The other
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: cop grabbed shells from his pocket and frantically began to
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  Speaker 1: load them into his shotgun. Clyde was irritated, fucking Henry
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: if he wants something done right and all that, Clyde
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: pulled his pistol and fired, not a kill shot that
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: was intentional. The cop fell off his bike, wounded but
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: still alive, but not for long. Henry reloaded, then pointed
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: his rifle directly at the cop on the ground, leaning
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: out begging for his life, and the Barrel gang claimed
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: their next victim. Serge Gainsburg thought about shoving a gun
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  Speaker 1: in his mouth and pulling the trigger, or maybe he'd
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: just throw his body into the sin. He was despondent,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: denied love, denied expressing that love in a song. Worst
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  Speaker 1: of all, denied her. Didn't matter that the Paris papers
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: were just now getting around, the publishing photos of the
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: two of them together Christmas shopping. That was old Mews.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Now Bridget was gone back with Gunther, her husband, a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: man that Surge knew she didn't love, not in the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: way she loved him. Regardless, she had a marriage to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: consider a career as well. Even the world's premiere sex
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: symbol could push things too far, hence the last minute
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: decision to pull Getaine on the pou, or so the thinking.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: When Serge went back to his house and spent Christmas alone,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: his two children with their mother elsewhere, just his piano,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: his gitans, some French wine in his regrets to keep
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: him company. And then there was a knock on the door.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: He opened it and was stunned into silence. Bridget stood
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  Speaker 1: before him, suitcase in hand. She couldn't stay, though. She
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: was on her way down Maria in Spain to shoot
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a movie with Sean Connery, but she needed to see
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Surge one more time. She needed closure. Inside the house,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Bridget picked her right index finger with a needle. A
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  Speaker 1: droplet of blood crimson red emerged on the tip of
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: her white skin. She took a page a Surge of
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: sheet music and wrote in her own blood Jatins. She
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: passed the needle to Surge. He pricked his index finger
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and watched as the blood began to ooze out. He
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: took the same piece of sheet music and with his
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: own blood wrote his own message, Juan no on Pleau
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: two Outlaw Lovers felt that surge of electricity again, the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: same one they felt when they touched under the table,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and then again when they sang into the same microphone
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: inside a vocal booth. Bridget packed the bloodstained piece of
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: sheet music in her suitcase and kissed Surge goodbye. Then
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: she walked out the door and got on a plane.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: But she didn't actually leave. She wasn't truly gone. She
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: was still here long after her body left the room.
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  Speaker 1: In Surge, his hands, his mouth, his breath, and his
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: tears as he was in hers, their love refused to die.
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  Speaker 1: It was eternal. Beingville Parish, Louisiana, May twenty third, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty four. Six police officers lay in wait in the bushes,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: guns drawn loaded ready. They watched as the Ford V
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  Speaker 1: eight mosied along at a good clip, probably sixty miles
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: an hour or so, down a straightaway stretch of road.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Behind the wheel Clyde Barrow couldn't see the men hiding
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: up ahead. From the passenger seat. Bonnie didn't pay much attention,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: but Clyde did see a logging truck stopped in the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: middle of the road blocking his way. As he got closer,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: he recognized the man standing next to it. Henry Methven's father, Clyde,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: came to a stop next to the truck. He rolled
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: his window down and asked mister Methvin what seemed to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: be the problem. Damn thing won't start. Clyde came the reply,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: It was all a ruse, a plan concocted by the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: concerned members of the Methvin family along with the posse
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: of lawmen who had been pursuing Bonnie and Clyde for
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: two years. The plan being that right now, at this moment,
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  Speaker 1: the Texas ranger in charge would stand up from where
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: they were hiding and give the outlaws a chance to surrender.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: But someone else stood up first, the b Nvil parish deputy.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: With an itchy finger on the trigger of his Remington Madellee.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: He took aim and fired the semi automatic rifle burst open.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Was shot. After shot, most of the bullets at the ford,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: but one sailed directly through the driver's side window, into
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow's left temple and out the right side of
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: his head. Clyde went limp dead, his foot eased off
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the brake pedal, and the V eight began to roll forward.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Bonnie shrieked the rest of the law men were up
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: right now, all of them aiming their firearms at the fort.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: The bullets flew, smashing through the car's metal, the doors,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the windows, and into Bonnie Parker's hysterical body. The Ford
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: rolled to a ditch on the side of the road
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  Speaker 1: and stopped, living by the gun, dying by the gun, fast,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: living on the slow road to doom. Bonnie Parker and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow doomed, just as Serge Gainsburg and Bridget Bardeaux
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: would be doomed some thirty four years later. The whole
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: thing was too good to be true. The ugly agent
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: provocateur and the beautiful sex goddess beset by morals and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: expectations of the world, they were born into. Surge, for one,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: coped with the loss of Bridget by drinking, smoking, and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: writing his song initials BB, a wash in cinematic strings
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and horns, immortalized the memory of his illicit romance, a
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: crime against what was right, against unions and vows and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: holy matrimony, a crime that nonetheless felt good to commit.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Surge could never give up on love, no matter how
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: moral or immral. He founded again with Jane Berkin, a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: British actress and singer who re recorded shatem Mouna Pou
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: with him. When it was released in nineteen sixty nine,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it was called pornographic band in Portugal, Brazil, Sweden and Italy,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: where the Vatican deemed it obscene. But not before it
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: got to number two on the Italian charts, not before
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg earned his first global hit, the kind of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: hit he could never have with Bridget. Surge was thinking
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: about her now. The index finger he once pricked, the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: needle writing a message in blood, began to throb. He
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: could feel his heart beating there, but not just his
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: own heart, Bridget's heart too. The two hearts pounded in
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: his ears ninety seven beats per minute, the tempo of
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: their song Bonnie and Clyde. The other instruments fell in line,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the drums, the bass, the quika, sounding out an eerie
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: call in the distance. Every two measures. The strings began
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to rise like swells on the ocean. The two of
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: them were on that sound stage again, dressed in character,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: recording their Bonnie and Clyde video. He with his Colt
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: forty five, she with her Tommy gun. After the shoot,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: they jumped back in her Triumph spitfire. The top was
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: down and the wind blew her hair back. The sound
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: of the engine reving made him hard as a rock.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Surge gazed into the black eyeliner circling her two eyes
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and was ushered down a tunnel. His stomach twisted up
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: in knots mon mon buge Leon, the sells bb. She
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: pressed hard on the gas pedal, and the spitfire surged ahead.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The road became a sound, a feeling, a feeling of
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: love so overwhelming it felt wrong to pursue it that
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: they continued once again.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: The world was.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Falling away, crumbling, burning. It all sank into the ocean.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: The press, pavazzi, dump their sacks. None of it mattered.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: It was just two of them, living fast, living for passion, physical, fictional, forbidden, doomed, disgraced.
• 34:17
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• 34:38
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