SERGE GAINSBOURG & BORIS VIAN: An original manuscript "Avis aux amateurs" by Boris Vian from 1958. This reflection, intended for the weekly Le Canard Enchaîné, finally appeared in the newspaper La Belle Epoque in 1958. The 5-page text, written in blue ink, denounces young talent launched with great fanfare by solid houses, often to no avail. It was an analysis initially entrusted to his accomplice Serge Gainsbourg. The two of them shared these thoughts at the end of the '50s, when record companies were wrongly betting on dozens of young talents in an attempt to nurture a future generation: The Sixties. Exceptional document recently found at the home of a close friend of Serge Gainsbourg. Fine condition.

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