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Iggy Pop & Jane Birkin Cover Serge Gainsbourg On ‘Fallon’

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Iggy Pop and Jane Birkin performed late French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg’s “Elisa” on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The pair were previewing Friday’s concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York City honoring Gainsbourg.

The Beacon will host Jane Birkin: Birkin Gainsbourg The Symphonic featuring a full orchestra. Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg were romantically and musically involved in the 1960s through 1980. Pop will participate in Friday’s concert, along with Birkin and Gainsbourg’s daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg. “Elisa” appeared on Birkin’s and Serge Gainsbourg’s 1969 collaborative album, Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg.

Watch Birkin and Pop’s performance, in French, of “Elisa” below:

Source: JamBase.com