25/02/2011 -  Paris - 

The Cité de la Musique is currently celebrating the life and work of the influential French music icon Serge Gainsbourg. Apart from photos, film, video extracts and artworks owned by the late singer, songwriter, actor and film-maker, visitors were also treated to a zany, one-off concert on Friday 24 October. Concert-goers looked on in amazement as two avant-garde Japanese performers - Kenzo Saeki and Jon The Dog - sang Japanese versions of French pop classics immortalized by "l'homme à la tête de choux.

Who could ever have imagined Les sucettes (once performed by the diminutive blonde pop diva France Gall) sung by a Japanese woman dressed up in a shaggy dog suit, accompanying her thin, reedy vocals on an old harmonium? Surreal would be an understatement! Read on