Jane Birkin
Flush with tunes by some of the Anglophone world's best songwriters, "Fictions" is Jane Birkin's most English album to date. But don't take it as a sign the British-born Gallic icon is breaking with her past.
Birkin, the muse and one-time lover of late French musician and actor Serge Gainsbourg, says she has no intention of neglecting his share of her repertoire. She also takes a pragmatic view of her native tongue.