And when I think about it now it's terrible to say, because the piano used to come out of the floor and people would be hanging around like they do in nightclubs—two, three in the morning—and they'd ask him for a little melody.… So now I feel like I was living with Frédéric Chopin going, 'Hey, Frédéric, you've got to go home.' I used to wrench him from the piano and tell people to stop giving him drinks, because they'd give him drinks and he'd give them drinks and it was never-ending until four o'clock in the morning."
Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lulu Gainsbourg, Anna Karina, Jeanne Moreau, Bambou remember that major composer of the 20th Century, Monsieur Gainsbourg; OPera Chic non plus.