While she borrows liberally for her second mixtape — you'll literally hear classics from Underworld, William Orbit, Panic At ...

“I was playing a gig at a club in Piccadilly, and there was a young girl in the audience who I really liked,” recalled Davies, “She had beautiful lips. Thin, but not skinny. A bit similar to Françoise ...

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.

In the late 1950s, Duane Eddy found success with his flashy, innovative style of guitar playing, full of resonant ... The French musician Françoise Hardy, who died in June at age 80, embodied ...

Nakamura, Dion and Piaf, but also Juliette Gréco, Françoise Hardy, Zaz and many other ... might run across a “happy fella playing cakewalks on his guitar”. The original was a flop.

It was obvious that Beck felt the importance of playing Carnegie Hall ... He also made enough room for himself to dance, strum guitar, and even do a little popping and locking to “Where It ...

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 ...

This year, they headline New York’s Madison Square Garden and play two nights at London’s ... shortest ever”) float in deep pools of lush guitar and ripples of percussion.

“Tropicalia,” a track dating back to 1998’s “Mutations,” lived up to its Brazilian-inspired name, with “Missing,” from 2005’s “Guero,” “one we don’t get to play too often ...

Françoise Hardy, who has died ... her father into giving her a guitar for passing her exams when she was 16. Despite her lack of confidence, she started playing at a local club in-between ...

So even that in itself was like, actually quite a joyful thing to do. It was like, ok, you’re back playing guitar. So although the songs are obviously honest, and they’re quite heavy at times, the ...

After a six-decade career, Francoise ... Hardy grew up in a modest Parisian apartment with her mother and sister. Enamoured with the pop songs she heard on the radio, she received a guitar for ...