Singer and actress Jane Birkin, who shaped the English 1960s and French 1970s like no other, has died. And who was so much bigger than her erotic blockbuster.
The 60’s? “I’ve never understood why people make such a fuss about it,” said Jane Birkin later, when the Sixties spook was long gone. That could be dismissed as flirtatious, because if anyone was one of the superstars of the ’60s, it was her, but Birkin was serious.