Françoise Hardy
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Biography
Once the doyen of the so-called yé-yé movement in France, the singer and fashion model Françoise Hardy was at the epicentre of modern French culture and remains an iconic figure of the late 1960s. Hardy herself eschews celebrity and has always declared herself uncomfortable to be in the public eye.
She began her music career after spending a year at the Sorbonne and signed a recording deal with Disques Vogue in 1961. Her first release for the company was an EP featuring 'Oh Oh Chéri', a song penned by Johnny Hallyday. The accompanying three tracks were written by Hardy and included 'Tous les Garçons et les Filles'. This was the track the radio stations picked up and it became a major hit selling over a million copies and winning the singer a gold disc in the process. Hardy disliked the song and famously claimed in an interview "it was recorded in three hours with the worst four musicians in Paris".
After the decline of the yé-yé movement in the late 1960s Hardy re-invented herself as a more serious singer working with respected songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg. In 2012 she celebrated her 50th year in the music business with the release of her 27th album 'L'amour Fou'. She also wrote a book with the same name. Three years later she revealed her second book release under the title 'Avis Non-Autorisé'. After a stretch of illnesses, she returned to the studio to work on new material in 2017.
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- Comment te dire adieu (remasterisé en 2016)
- Tant de belles choses...
- Puisque vous partez en voyage
- Et même
- C'était Charmant
- Qui peut dire
- Il n y a pas d amour heureux
- La fin de l'été
- Le temps de l'amour
- I'll Be Seeing You
- En vous aimant bien
- Viens la
- Rendez-vous d'automne
- Ma jeunesse fout le camp
- Comme
- La mésange (Remasterisé en 2016)
- L'anamour (Remasterisé en 2016)
- Suzanne (Remasterisé en 2016)
- Trois petits tours
- Et voilà (Remasterisé en 2016)
- Brumes
- Chanson noire (Remasterisé en 2016)
- Ã l'ombre de la lune
- Memory Divine
