Long discreet, Bamboo black you silence. His word is released in an autobiography, Step by step in the night, published this Thursday, November 7, 2024 published by XO. The work returns in particular to his meeting
“unthinkable” with a legend of French song, Serge Gainsbourg.
Their destinies were linked in the early 1980s during an evening at the Élysée-Matignon, a chic nightclub popular with celebrities. She is 18, he is 52. They never leave each other.“I took care of himtoday evokes the model in a rare interview given to the magazine Paris
Match. I even saved his life three or four times.”.
Serge Gainsbourg: this recording made without Bambou’s knowledge
If she is usually discreet about his private lifeBambou agrees to modestly open up to our colleagues on his sexuality. “In this regard, it took a long time with Serge. He was patient. And he taught me everything”says the last companion of the man nicknamed “the man with the head of cabbage”. The singer who died in 1991, however, put his patience to the test.
Still in the same interview, his muse describes having been sordidly trapped by the interpreter of
The Javanese.“I was furious when I heard on Love on the
Beathe had recorded my fits of pleasure without my knowledge“she says again. Serge Gainsbourg would have retorted to him “saying that it was I love you neither power 1000″.
Conquered by the words of the song, Bambou finally gave up fighting.
Serge Gainsbourg: Does Bambou have any links with Serge Gainsbourg’s family?
Bamboo has long been wiped the hatred of a good part of showbiz. “For everyone, I was the junkie (while almost everyone was on drugsdenounces this one.
I was the “yellow” who was with Serge for the money.”
The singer, today in the shadows, nevertheless says she is
remained very close to
Charlotte Gainsbourg.
“I taught him to knit, to embroider, to cook…”she remembers, when she wasn't taking him to the funfair or the Luxembourg gardens. Serge Gainsbourg's ex-partner paints the portrait of a child “who wanted to do something different every 10 minutes”. And to conclude: “She was and remains like my little sister“.
