Hardy pounced on a snake that was sunning along a riverbank and the snake pounced right back. The singer and songwriter was bitten on the hand and shared the video to social media this week.

In a list of Françoise Hardy’s all-time favourite songs, why should she count her own? Given the amount of time, love and care that goes into the creation of a song, more artists should celebrate ...

Tom Hardy adds another gangster role to his resume in Guy Ritchie's "MobLand." The star is no stranger to playing criminals after "Legend," "Bronson," and "Peaky Blinders." Hardy told Business ...

In 1960, Françoise Hardy surprised her family—twice. First, she passed her baccalauréat exam with flying colors, a shock, really. Then, for her reward, she chose a guitar over a transistor radio.

Since we introduced My Life In Music back in 2006, in Take 108*, it’s become an essential component of Uncut, an opportunity for the artists we most admire to reveal all about the albums that ...

Hadid’s outfit calls to mind a look worn by the late French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy, designed for her by Paco Rabanne back in 1968. At the time of its construction, the piece was ...

Françoise Hardy, who has died aged 80, shot to fame as part of France’s génération yé-yé, the jaunty transatlantic and cross-channel collision between French chanson and American rock ’n ...

Françoise Hardy, who has died aged 80, was a singer and songwriter who first came to prominence in the 1960s, when her downbeat compositions and exotic appearance subverted the British pop charts ...

Kirsty Lang on judge Sir Oliver Popplewell, computer pioneer Lynn Conway, music mogul Tony Bramwell and 60s singing icon Francoise Hardy. Show more Kirsty Lang on the Judge and cricketer Sir ...

Brigitte Macron, Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni have paid their respects at the funeral of French singer and actress Francoise Hardy. The Swinging Sixties cultural icon died aged 80 on June 11 ...

After a six-decade career, Francoise Hardy, the iconic French singer-songwriter who captivated fans since the 1960s, passed away at 80 after a prolonged battle with lymphatic cancer. Her son ...

By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris It was like Françoise Hardy, the wistful singer and songwriter of a certain French melancholy and style, to slip away in the midst of a political storm ...