The Lemon Fool

In my YouTube wanderings earlier I came across this song which I remember really liking many years ago, but which I'd completely forgotten.

I'd also forgotten how beautiful Françoise Hardy was.

A lovely wave of 60s nostalgia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1cuQF8sEGA

Clitheroekid wrote:In my YouTube wanderings earlier I came across this song which I remember really liking many years ago, but which I'd completely forgotten.

I'd also forgotten how beautiful Françoise Hardy was.

A lovely wave of 60s nostalgia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1cuQF8sEGA

This not not good for the ticker. I fell in love with France (and Mlle Hardy) when I visited the first time at 16/17 - Mlle Hardy was all over the radio waves/tv and I had a clutch of her 45s. I could not understand why the girls at my local grammar didn't at least copy her style and preferred to look like Helen Shapiro. Decided my future path through life.

T7

Clitheroekid wrote:I'd also forgotten how beautiful Françoise Hardy was.

Amazing what a lack of botox can do!

bh

This was one of my favourites from 1965:

https://youtu.be/R95FPVPz15Q?si=ne1bAjz1kkdf1l29

If you like Francois Hardy music, you might also like this one from Marianne Faithfull, from the same era (This little Bird).

https://youtu.be/YyfPiKoypxQ?feature=shared

Nice, very nice.

I imagine then, that these might find favour

Petite fleur (Hot Sardines) https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=o10AM5-NpMk
Je ne veux pas travailler (Pink Martini) https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=U6yp07372es

If you like Françoise Hardy with a bit of 60's twangy guitar try Bon Entendeur vs Françoise Hardy's "Le temps de l’amour" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kr9dQ386Y

Bon Entendeur are a three piece project formed in 2012. They take 'oldies' and remix with electro dance beats. For me, works sometimes, other offerings not so good.

Sorry to have to report that Françoise Hardy has passed away.

https://www.bfmtv.com/people/musique/francoise-hardy-est-morte-a-l-age-de-80-ans_AN-202406111011.html (in French)

RIP x

Very sad, have quite a few of her CD's..had a lovely voice. RIP. And another one bites the dust, as I'm just listening to Eva Cassidy's version of Over the Rainbow when I hear sad news.

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi ... 63867.html

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=franco ... -large.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgBTG_HOvMQ

This last video is quite extraordinary considering how ill she was at the time, but I digress as this is a tribute to FH but just heard a song from Cassidy and I wonder if Hardy was one of her influences...........Regardless, hope you two meet somewhere and play magical music together.