“Look for lice”: but who was this Elisa sung by Serge Gainsbourg?
Story The man who was still Lucien Ginsburg wrote a first draft of this song for his first wife, Lise Lévitzky. He would take it out of his notebooks and finish it, twenty years later, for a certain Jane Birkin…
Serge Gainsbourg in 1968. DANIEL LEFEVRE / INA VIA AFP - MONTAGE "LE NOUVEL OBS"
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So who is this "Elisa" who "looks for lice" to the tune of a waltz in Serge Gainsbourg's hair? Released in 1969 on the album "Jane Birkin-Serge Gainsbourg," the refrain was not composed for Jane B (well, not entirely). The song was inspired by another woman. "Elisa" is Elisabeth Lévitzky, known as Lise, Serge Gainsbourg's first wife.
Lise and Lucien Ginsburg, as he called himself then, crossed paths for the…
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