Serge Gainsbourg

Gainsbourg was shameless in his appropriation of any musical genre, so his biting, clever wordplay could be backed by sleek jazz, Caribbean music, disco, 1960s pop, '70s funk or his native French stylings. Here are 30 years of Gainsbourg's twisted pop hits, including "Je T'aime...," which was banned because of its ribald nature. It still went to No. 1 throughout the globe.