“Born into a Parisian family of humble means, Hard taught herself a few chords on the guitar, and was already singing her own compositions in French clubs by the age of 17.” She became a star with her debut song, “Tous Les Garcon Et Les Filles” (Find Me a Boy) 1962, “drastically improving by the second EP, especially on the snaky ‘Le Temps de L’Amour’ (The Time of Love), with its spy-movie guitar and splendidly film noirish vocal. Her English version of ‘Dans Le Monde’, ‘All Over the World,’ was a hit song in Great Britain in 1965. “When the Beatles came through Paris on their 1965 European tour, they declared that there were two people they wanted to see: Brigitte Bardot and Francoise Hardy” (Richie Unterberger, Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1998).
Francoise Hardy “Dans le Monde Entier”
Francoise Hardy “Le Temps de L’Amour”
Francoise Hardy “Tous Les Garcon Et Les Filles”
Francoise Hardy “Dans le Monde Entier”
Francoise Hardy “Le Temps de L’Amour”
Francoise Hardy “Tous Les Garcon Et Les Filles”
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