Post by paulmoran on Jun 12, 2024 17:13:29 GMT -5
Iconic French singer Françoise Hardy dies aged 80
12 June 2024, 08:00 BST
Updated 09:05 BST
"One of France's best-loved singer-songwriters, Françoise Hardy, has died at the age of 80.
"Mum is gone," her son, Thomas Dutronc, who is also a musician, wrote on social media.
Hardy burst on to the music scene in 1962 and became a cultural icon who inspired the likes of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. Known for her melancholy ballads, she symbolised France's Yé-yé (yeah yeah) pop movement, so-called because of its nod to English music.
Her most famous songs included All the Girls and Boys (Tous les garçons et les filles), It Hurts to Say Goodbye (Comment te dire adieu) and My Friend the Rose (Mon amie la rose).
Her biggest UK hit was All Over The World, an English-language version of her song Dans le monde entier, which reached number 16 in the charts in June 1965.
Hardy was born in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944 and raised by her mother.
Like many girls at the time, she grew up listening to Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard and other American and British stars on Radio Luxembourg and she signed her first record deal at just 17.
Her breakout as a musician came in 1962 with the simple, plaintive song, Tous les garçons et les filles, when she sang of all the boys and girls walking hand in hand, while "I walk alone through the streets, my heart aching". It was an instant hit in France and even broke through in the UK charts.
Her style captivated fashion designers, becoming a model for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne, who designed a minidress out of gold plates for her.
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger once famously called her the "ideal woman", while fellow singer-songwriter Bob Dylan penned several love letters to her.
He addressed her in a poem on the back of his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan.
One of her most memorable performances came in 1968 with Comment te dire adieu, a French adaptation by Serge Gainsbourg of a song originally in English. But the Gainsbourg song has since been covered many times, with its painful goodbye to a man with a "heart of pyrex".
She collaborated with a number of artists, including Blur and Iggy Pop.
Hardy was also an actor - appearing in films by directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Roger Vadim and John Frankenheimer - as well as a writer of fiction and non-fiction."
link
![](https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/francoise-GettyImages-482899317-e1718147970751.jpg?w=1000&h=667&crop=1)
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12 June 2024, 08:00 BST
Updated 09:05 BST
"One of France's best-loved singer-songwriters, Françoise Hardy, has died at the age of 80.
"Mum is gone," her son, Thomas Dutronc, who is also a musician, wrote on social media.
Hardy burst on to the music scene in 1962 and became a cultural icon who inspired the likes of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. Known for her melancholy ballads, she symbolised France's Yé-yé (yeah yeah) pop movement, so-called because of its nod to English music.
Her most famous songs included All the Girls and Boys (Tous les garçons et les filles), It Hurts to Say Goodbye (Comment te dire adieu) and My Friend the Rose (Mon amie la rose).
Her biggest UK hit was All Over The World, an English-language version of her song Dans le monde entier, which reached number 16 in the charts in June 1965.
Hardy was born in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944 and raised by her mother.
Like many girls at the time, she grew up listening to Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard and other American and British stars on Radio Luxembourg and she signed her first record deal at just 17.
Her breakout as a musician came in 1962 with the simple, plaintive song, Tous les garçons et les filles, when she sang of all the boys and girls walking hand in hand, while "I walk alone through the streets, my heart aching". It was an instant hit in France and even broke through in the UK charts.
Her style captivated fashion designers, becoming a model for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne, who designed a minidress out of gold plates for her.
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger once famously called her the "ideal woman", while fellow singer-songwriter Bob Dylan penned several love letters to her.
He addressed her in a poem on the back of his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan.
One of her most memorable performances came in 1968 with Comment te dire adieu, a French adaptation by Serge Gainsbourg of a song originally in English. But the Gainsbourg song has since been covered many times, with its painful goodbye to a man with a "heart of pyrex".
She collaborated with a number of artists, including Blur and Iggy Pop.
Hardy was also an actor - appearing in films by directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Roger Vadim and John Frankenheimer - as well as a writer of fiction and non-fiction."
link
![](https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/francoise-GettyImages-482899317-e1718147970751.jpg?w=1000&h=667&crop=1)
![](https://cdns-images.dzcdn.net/images/cover/ae3b2ec4da7faec82c8b193055e4284b/1900x1900-000000-80-0-0.jpg)