Why is Françoise Hardy so influential?

A few days after her death, let’s look back at the way in which this artist continues to impact her cadets, as much through the songs she chose as by the repertoire she leaves behind.

Since her death last Tuesday, we have heard a lot of people asking this question in the media and in conversations between friends about Françoise Hardy: what makes her still so influential in music, why she is so often cited as a decisive reference, by Juliette Armanet, Clara Luciani, Zaho de Sagazan, November Ultra? …

Well maybe that’s why, for a song like The house where I grew upa classic in her discography since 1966. She had simply heard this song by Adriano Celentano during a song competition in Italy.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

Francoise Hardy, The house where I grew up, 1966

Adriano Celentano, Il Ragazzo of via Gluck, 1966

Margaret Whiting, It Hurts To Say Goodbye, 1966

Arnold Goland, It Hurts To Say Goodbye, 1966

Francoise Hardy, How to say goodbye to you, 1968

Alain Souchon in A summer in Souchon (France Info), 2017

Francoise Hardy, It’s me, 1982

Francoise Hardy, The first good time of the day, 1963

Mutant Bones, The first good time of the day, 1968

François Breut, The first good time of the day, 2004

Pink Martini & The Von Trapps, The first good time of the day, 2014

Clara Kristin, The first good time of the day, 2020

Francoise Hardy, The first good time of the day, 1963

Francoise Hardy, You are like everyone who has suffered sorrow, 1970

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