Françoise Hardy RIP

[Teasing the Korean]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13519845/Iconic-1960s-French-singer-Francoise-Hardy-dies-aged-80-long-battle-cancer.html

[romualdo]

RIP Francoise

Had just finished the recent Morton Jack Nick Drake biography where she is mentioned a few times (meeting ND, attending recording sessions, ND possibly writing for her etc)

[GA Russell]

RIP.

I picked up a compilation CD of hers about 1990.  I'll have to go find it.

[sgcim]

4 hours ago, romualdo said:

RIP Francoise

Had just finished the recent Morton Jack Nick Drake biography where she is mentioned a few times (meeting ND, attending recording sessions, ND possibly writing for her etc)

Yeah, I read that book, too, and it seemed like Drake was pretty much at the end of his rope, trying to get FH to cover all his songs. He lived in a houseboat near where she lived, just  to convince her to make an album of his songs, but she didn't think they fit her style, and refused to do any of his songs.

Then they hired studio musician Reg Dwight(EJ) to make a demo of three of his songs, and they sent 100 copies out to 100 different artists, but no one wanted to record them. You can't say Island Records didn't believe in ND's music, people in Europe just didn't care for it. I don't think it ever reached the States.

There was a similar case with Judee Sill, except that people in the States didn't seem to like her music, while people in England seemed to love it.

I think in ND's case, it seemed like intentional suicide, where in Sill's case, it was an accidental OD.

[soulpope]

Quiet grandeur .... R.I.P    ....

[soulpope]

She left for the trip ....

[rostasi]

Françoise et Les Expos