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How France's songs keep world dreaming of French freedom and glamour

French-language songs are enjoying unprecedented success in non-francophone countries thanks to artists like Stromae, Aya Nakamura, Celine Dion and Edith Piaf. What makes people who don’t speak the language want to listen to them and what do they tell of France and its language? The new International Centre of the…

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Hedi Slimane’s latest Celine collection is an homage to the leading ladies of 1960s France: watch the film

Inspired by listening to The Velvet Underground and Nico while re-reading Françoise Sagan, Hedi Slimane pays ode to legendary French it-girls like Sagan, Françoise Hardy and Juliette Gréco with a collection rooted in the liberatory spirit of the 1960s

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Charles Blackwell obituary

Music producer, arranger and songwriter who worked with everyone from Marlene Dietrich to Tom Jones, and was behind many pop hits of the 1960s and 70s

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Cigarettes After Sex’s Greg Gonzalez: ‘I’m not bitter. I don’t write from that place’

One of the most streamed bands in the world, the Texan three-piece have cornered the market in sensuous indie-pop. Their frontman speaks to Roisin O’Connor about delusion, therapy, and how the end of his long-term relationship inspired their new album

The Independent UK

Malcolm McLaren’s Paris: re-released 30 years on, this record is still astonishingly romantic

Released to coincide with the Paris Olympics, it embodies all that McLaren felt for the city

Evening Standard

French Singing Legend Françoise Hardy Dies At 80

Remembering the iconic French singer Françoise Hardy, known for her ethereal voice and enduring music. Rest in peace.

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Françoise Hardy, French singing legend and pop icon, dies at 80

Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died

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Remembering French cultural icon and singer Françoise Hardy

One of France's best-loved singer-songwriters, Françoise Hardy was a leading cultural icon of the Swinging Sixties and one of the biggest stars of the "yé-yé" boom that swept across Europe at the time. Hardy has died at the age of 80 after a battle with cancer. Renowned for her hits…

France 24

Françoise Hardy obituary

Icon of 60s music who sang of love as a source of ‘wretched, profound, endless questioning’

The Guardian - UK

Françoise Hardy’s 7 best songs: from La Question to Tous les garçons et les filles

The French music icon was at the forefront of the yé-yé movement, and had a profound influence on rock ’n’ roll

Evening Standard

Françoise Hardy, French music and pop culture icon, dies aged 80

The singer, who became an international cultural icon in the ‘60s, was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 2004

The Independent UK

Francoise Hardy, French singer and 60s pop icon, dies aged 80

Hardy became a pop icon in the 1960s with Mick Jagger describing her as his ‘ideal woman’

Evening Standard

Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist

Hardy shot to fame singing airy, carefree pop before she took control of her career, hung out with 60s rock aristocracy and became a sophisticated singer-songwriter of rare sensuality and melancholy

The Guardian - UK

Françoise Hardy, French pop singer and fashion muse, dies aged 80

Singer and actor who wrote some of her country’s biggest pop hits had suffered with lymphatic cancer for many years

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Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

The Guardian - UK

‘Power of a woman’: Sharon Stone and Françoise Hardy offer inspiration at Tom Ford

Creative director Peter Hawkings dips into predecessor Ford’s playbook with high-voltage glamour and sex appeal

The Independent UK

Brigitte Barbie: The five women behind Mme Macron’s faultless French chic

Toned bronzed legs, power blows and perfect outfits: at 70, Madame Macron’s ‘first-lady Barbie’ look in Paris this week was the ultimate va-va-voom venn diagram of French female style, writes Fleur Britten

The Guardian - UK

Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie’s Listening Diary: ‘Dave Matthews Band? Ouch’

The Anacortes, Washington-based DIY hero takes us through his week in listening, from a “sexually suggestive” EDM song by Pickle to a Nina Simone record picked out by a jazz-loving child

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