It’s a song that resembles us. Françoise Hardy, the young myth in the photo

Françoise Hardy is not only successful in her native country, but also in Great Britain, the chosen land of pop music which has made her an icon for her songs, her elegance and her elegant melancholy.

In partnership with the exhibition It’s a song that resembles us – Worldwide hits of French-language popular music At the Cité internationale de la langue française in Villers-Cotterêts, these chronicles look in detail at each of the stories presented there.

It’s a shame we can’t show a photo on the radio. There’s Françoise Hardy, a quiet smile, with that tiny hint of mocking pleasure that we see in her eyes at the time. It’s July 1965, she’s 21 years old. Next to her, Mick Jagger. It’s the year of Satisfactionthe year of Get off my cloudthe year of the conquest of the United States.

And yet, there is something extinguished in the Rolling Stone in chief. Something like a withdrawal, a deference even, rather than a shyness. It is significant. Françoise Hardy poses on an equal footing with Mick Jagger. Two icons of international pop, but she, she carries within her something mysterious, elegant, secret enough, so that he does not act smart, does not pull out his big dangerous sex symbol game. But it is true that there was all that.

All the boys and girlsa song by Françoise Hardy who revealed her to the general French public in 1962, its versions in English and Italian in 1963, in German in 1965. And then that same year, an album recorded in London with notably All that is saida song that French television presented during a Christmas show filmed in London, with Françoise Hardy lip-syncing on a quayside of the Thames with Tower Bridge behind her.

In this episode of This song reminds me of usyou hear excerpts from:

Francoise Hardy, All that is said, 1965

Francoise Hardy, All the boys and girls, 1962

Francoise Hardy, Find Me a Boy, 1963

Francoise Hardy, What is my state, 1963

Francoise Hardy, Peter and Lou, 1965

Francoise Hardy, All that is said, 1965

Francoise Hardy, All Over the World, 1965

Francoise Hardy, The Boy From Ipanema (on American television NBC), 1962

Francoise Hardy, All that is said, 1965

You can also extend this column with the book This song reminds me of us published by Heritage Publishing.

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