Francoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter. Jagger, Bowie, Dylan all fell in love!
I personally never knew of her, but her story of her young years, age 17, performing in the circle of legends & musical icons of the 60's, mesmerized by her beauty & simplicity is quite fascinating
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Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter,
Mick Jagger and David Bowie gushed over her.
Bob Dylan composed a poem about her and refused to continue playing during one Paris concert unless she was in the audience and visited him backstage.
Francoise Hardy is a 1960s French pop icon who more than 50 years later is still making music.
Bob Dylan wrote her a poem which he included on the sleeve of his fourth album, 1964's Another Side of Bob Dylan:
From her interview, now at age 74, Hardy tells the story:
May 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/arts/francoise-hardy-interview.amp.html
PARIS — “
Bob Dylan refused to go back onstage unless I came to see him immediately,”
“I went and he agreed to go back on stage,” she said.
A few months earlier, while in London, Ms. Hardy had turned the heads of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Brian Jones. Singing in French, English, Italian and German, the shy beauty and talented French songwriter cast a spell on many of her contemporaries — and over France for nearly 60 years
In her memoir, Ms. Hardy examines what it meant to shoot to fame at 17 and what it feels like having been an icon in France for nearly six decades.
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