The French singer Françoise Hardy, who first rose to fame in the early Sixties, has died, aged 80. First emerging during the yé-yé movement – a counterculture genre that put a profoundly French spin ...

When young Parisian Françoise Hardy released her first self-titled record in 1962, at the age of 18, she was unlike other female artists of the time, neither bubbling over with perkiness, nor ...

Considering the desire by reissue labels to help the average vinyl enthusiast be able to finally afford those gems from the past that would otherwise cost them a pair of appendages, it’s a wonder it ...

Françoise Hardy, who has died aged 80, was an intoxicatingly romantic French chanteuse and heartthrob of the early Beatles era; one of the biggest “yé-yé” stars in her native land, she also enjoyed ...