Some Françoise videos
Mark recently send me links to some great Françoise Hardy videos. Let’s make this a Françoise Friday! This Johnny Halliday cover can’t be embedded, alas.
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Mark recently send me links to some great Françoise Hardy videos. Let’s make this a Françoise Friday! This Johnny Halliday cover can’t be embedded, alas.
Françoise Hardy est une de mes chanteuses française préférée ! merci pour ces vidéos !
These films show Françoise Hardy at the height of her fame as songwriter, singer and style icon…. at a distance of nearly 50 years her achievement looks all the greater. Arguably, before Françoise, there was no modern look or style for young women. She set the look. It was lost when the hippy era was followed by the dreary Seventies, and then the over-the-top Eighties (think Bangles). But in the 2010s every girl (and woman up to 40 !) seems to look or want to look like Françoise did in 1967. In 1964 her fashion designer Paco Rabanne set out to make Françoise ‘the girl from the year 2000’. He was a good forecaster.
Françoise’s live performance of ‘Douce Violence’ in 1966 is a true historic document. This is the only recording of her singing the classic song that Johnny Halliday made famous. It is not on any album and she never performed it again.
The line ‘Le monde immense soudain nous appartient’ (see full lyrics below) seems to sum up where Johnny, Sylvie and Françoise found themselves at the height of their success.
There are three Youtube posts of the same film clip, and Filles Sourires has chosen the best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH04rOm7jyQ
DOUCE VIOLENCE (1961)
Douce violence de nos jeunes amours
Tendre insouciance de nos premiers beaux jours
Quand le temps nous fait face au ciel de nos seize ans
C’est notre enfance qui meurt doucement
Douce violence de nos cœurs éperdus
Folle impatience des joies tant attendues
Notre vie s’illumine au feu de sa chaleur
Et l’on fait taire ses peurs
Mon amour donne-moi des nuits sans sommeil
Pour qu’enfin nos désirs se rassemblent
Mon amour guide-moi vers les tendres réveils
Qui bientôt nous verront ensemble
Douce violence de nos premiers matins
Le monde immense soudain nous appartient
Et nos cœurs et nos lèvres
Voudraient garder toujours
La douce violence de notre amour