Counting down the ten greatest covers of The Kinks, the group that typified the sounds of the swinging sixties thanks to the songwriting genius of Ray Davies.

"Back to my old tricks again" Thom Yorke sings on 'Back In The Game', from electronic album with British producer Mark ...

1621: Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London for one night. 1659: The Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague. 1669: The last entry in Samuel Pepys’s diary.

The Fête de la Musique promises to be a lively affair in Chatou this Saturday, June 21, 2025. We're off to enjoy the ...

Cigarettes After Sex was created as a way of channelling moments of idle romanticism into music, like being lazy in bed, thinking about love lost and gained.

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 ...

"Favorite Country Song" is a tribute to all the quiet sounds of country living, performed with far less urgency than other Hardy hits like "Wait in the Truck" and "Truck Bed." Summertime (Chesney ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the French singer’s arresting 1971 album, a ...

In addition to the world of 1990s television, Juniore also holds a lot of love and appreciation for the French yé-yé music scene of the 1960s, with the late great Françoise Hardy a particular ...

But the love of Hardy’s life, the father of her son and the agonising inspiration for many of her songs, was the French singer and actor Jacques Dutronc, whom she met in 1967 and married in 1981.

Hardy found solace in books and the radio, and lapped up the pop sounds of Elvis Presley, Billy Fury and Marty Wilde on Radio Luxembourg. She began writing songs after she talked her father into ...

Brigitte Macron, Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni have paid their respects at the funeral of French singer and actress Francoise Hardy ... in my looks than in my songs.' Beyond her songwriting ...