Daily album for July 4, 2025 Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg (1971)

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Cover art for Histoire de Melody Nelson

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  • art pop
  • baroque pop
  • pop
  • pop rock
  • rock
  • symphonic rock

Histoire de Melody Nelson is a 1971 concept album by French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, arranged and co-written by Jean-Claude Vannier. Produced by Jean-Claude Desmarty, the album was released on March 24, 1971 through Philips Records. Its narrative follows an illicit romance which develops between the middle-aged narrator and fourteen-year-old girl Melody Nelson, portrayed on the album and its cover art by Gainsbourg's then-partner Jane Birkin.

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