Since 1969, when she and her then-partner, Serge Gainsbourg, performed the song Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus, Jane Birkin has been a performing artist.
It was so overt that the Vatican forbade using it. She now remarks, “That was a chuckle.
But on her most recent CD, Oh! Pardon Tu Dormais…, she records songs in English for the first time rather than French.
She speaks from Paris, where she moved while living with Gainsbourg, while yet sounding like she is from London (she was born in Chelsea). “I was pushed into being adventurous,” she adds.
Is Jane Birkin a smoker?
Yes, at age 71, actress and singer Jane Birkin is back on the road and reflecting on her wild days in Paris, losing her daughter, and her steadfast devotion to smoking.
Did Jane Birkin have a stroke?
After spending three months in the hospital following a mild stroke in September of last year, she is eager to “have fun” since her life has been placed on hold, similar to a computer that is currently in rest mode.