It Hurts To Say Goodbye

Françoise Hardy, icon of French music, left us on June 11. David Hutcheon bids adieu.

INTERVIEWED BY the news magazine Paris Match for the final time at the end of 2023, Françoise Hardy, the queen of France’s yé-yé generation in the 1960s, talked about the creeping malice of lymphoma, with which she had been diagnosed in 2004. She was asked what readers could wish for her to mark her imminent 80th birthday. “To be able to leave soon and quickly,” she replied, “without too many challenges. ”The singer, who died on June 11, regularly reflected lyrically on such challenges, on pain and sorrow, on her own insecurities and on the injustices served up by the men in her orbit. Yet her story is one not of a victim but of a singer who wrested control of her life and career, smashed glass ceilings and…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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