French singer Françoise Hardy, has died at the age of 80, her son Thomas Dutronc announced on 11 June 2024 on his social networks. Hardy was born in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944 to a single mother who was separated from the father of her two daughters.
The single sold a million copies, making Hardy an instant star of the Ye-Ye generation of post-war French pop singers. French singer Françoise Hardy is carried in triumph by French group Compagnons de la chanson as French singers Marcel Amont and Enrico Macias look on after the concert at the Olympia in Paris on 28 October 1965. , about the pain of separation from a man with a"heart of pyrex", with lyrics provided by the bad-boy of French pop, Serge Gainsbourg.