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Francoise Hardy - L'amitie

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Release Date:01/29/2016;Notes:Limited 180gm vinyl LP housed in a deluxe Stoughton jacket. Digitally remastered edition of this album from the French pop chanteuse. By 1965, Françoise Hardy was truly international. She'd hung out with The Beatles and The Stones, played high-profile shows in London, established a working relationship with British producer Charles Blackwell, and appeared in the film What's New Pussycat? She was also a fashion icon seen in the pages of Marie Claire and Vogue and on the cover of Elle, and her first US album was issued that year. In France, Hardy was to release album number four, the second album to be recorded in London, where her celebrity was rapidly growing-at odds with her natural shyness. "In London, it was the first time I'd been made to think I had a certain charm or charisma," she says now. "Thanks to the time in England, I became aware I could be seductive." L'Amitié, with it's evocative, close-up album cover and late-night sound, is the result. Produced by Jacques Wolfsohn alongside arranger Charles Blackwell, the sessions were notable for some distracting visitors. "Mick Jagger was there a few times with various entourages of his at Pye [Studios]," recalls Blackwell. "There was a long seat in front of the mixing desk where they used to sit." Hardy was, however, not the epitome of the swinging '60s idyll she was an intellectual, into yoga and Buddhism and astrology, and she still noted French chanson singers George Brassens and Jacques Brel as favorites alongside Elvis, Dionne Warwick, and The Rolling Stones. Between 1962 and 1966, Françoise Hardy released one French-language album per year. Each, strictly speaking, was eponymously titled, and each was collected from a series of contemporary four-track, seven-inch, picture-sleeve EPs-pop music's main format in France, known as le super 45. In them, we see the maturing of one of the decade's most singular talents-a pop singer with the heart of a chanteuse, a singer-songwriter in an age before such a thing was known, and a style icon who valued privacy and modesty.;Track List:1. Ce Petit Cœur;2. Il Se Fait Tard;3. Tout Ce Qu'on M'a Dit;4. L'amitié;5. En T'attendant;6. Je T'aime;7. Non Ce N'est Pas Un Rêve;8. Quel Mal y A-T-II À Ça?;9. Tu Peux Bien;10. Le Temps Des Souvenirs;11. Je Pensais;12. Dis Lui Non;Special Attributes:GATEFOLD LP JACKET, 180 GRAM VINYL, DELUXE EDITION
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