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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The BBC decreed it should never be heard on its airwaves. The Pope deplored it, however Jane Birkin's highly sexually explicit duet wwas revealed in 1969.
"On my obituary, it will say, ‘Like the bag’ or something," Birkin predicted in a CBS News interview five years ago.
1960s 'wild child' Jane Birkin's death has been announced by the French culture ministry
Birkin’s early movie credits included ‘Blow-Up’ in 1966, which introduced French audiences to her “Swinging Sixties” style.
The style Birkin displayed in the 1960s and early 1970s — long hair with bangs, jeans paired with white tops, knit mini dresses and basket bags — still epitomizes the height of French chic for many women around the world.