Love on the Beat is a 1984 album by French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

. On this album, Gainsbourg tried his hand at the electronic new-wave movement, ripe with synthesizers, which were heavily popular at the time. The album was controversial due to its very sexual lyrical content, with prostitution

Prostitution

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 as the subject matter on many of the tracks. Perhaps most controversial was "Lemon Incest", which was set to Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

's Étude No. 3

Étude Op. 10, No. 3 (Chopin)

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 and sung as a duet with his then-12-year-old daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...

.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg; except "Lemon Incest"

1. "Love On The Beat"
2. "Sorry Angel"
3. "Hmm Hmm Hmm"
4. "Kiss Me Hardy"
5. "No Comment"
6. "I'm The Boy"
7. "Harley David Son of a Bitch"
8. "Lemon Incest" (Gainsbourg, Frédéric Chopin
   Frédéric Chopin
   Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
   
   )

Personnel

• Serge Gainsbourg - vocals, synthesizer, arranger
• Billy Rush - bass, guitar, producer, drum programming
• Larry Fast
  Larry Fast
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   - synthesizer, synthesizer programming
• Stan Harrison
  Stan Harrison
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   - saxophone
• George Simms & Steve Simms - background vocals
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
  
   - arranger, vocals on "Lemon Incest"
• Larry Alexander - mixing
• John Rollo - engineer
• Nelson Ayres - assistant engineer
• Jean Ber - photography
• Jean-Pierre Haie - remastering
• William Klein
  William Klein
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  - photography
• Claude Delorme - photography
• Jacques Aubert - photography
• Philippe Lerichomme - producer
• Jean Marie Guérin - mastering