![]() ![]() In searching for one thing, say A Suivre, I would make any number of other discoveries with respect to her songs. But there was great value in my years of indefatigable search. Eventually I did find what I was looking for. I found that I was on record searching for a Massage Personnel. It could lead to some unusual situations. Before the Internet it wasn't possible to simply push buttons and quickly identify and locate what you were looking for. Even her well-known work was fairly hard to find in the UK. Having made the discovery of Françoise Hardy's music some time ago, I embarked on what was to turn into a long and frustrating search for her original albums. But my intention here is to do much more than that. In the very least, this Discography has merit in setting the record straight in the English speaking world. I maintain that she has now built a body of work of sufficient substance to place her high in the first rank of artists. I like to see the gentle souls do well, not least because they live in a loud and aggressive world that is ever ready to eat them up. She's one of the quiet ones, and is therefore likely to be overlooked. I never forget to add that, musically, she has lasted far better than most of the great sixties icons - icons whom she also pre-dates. So I make a point of telling them that she got better in the seventies and has recorded some of the best music of her career since 2000. That charts the extent to which she fell into obscurity in the UK after the 1960’s. 'Pretty girl' seemed to be the sum total of one record shop person's knowledge. Their memories they have of her are good ones, it's just that, to them, she is forever a sixties icon imprisoned in grainy black and white images. It's as if I have called their sixties memories back to them in the present. I have had this response even in specialist music shops in Liverpool, Manchester, and St Helens, run by people who know and love their music. ![]() Whenever I have mentioned the name of Françoise Hardy in the process of my searches and researches over the years in the UK, I have been struck by how often I have been met with expressions of pleasant surprise from those few who have heard of her, surprise that she is still recording. (OK, they are much less obscure now, but I can assure you that they were back in the day). So a word of thanks to yours truly for my having turned up many an obscurity would not go amiss. Google, it involved quite an effort of investigation on my part. When I first started to compile this list, in the days before the ever helpful Dr. It's easier these days to identify and locate missing songs. If you spot a song that is missing, please let me know. It brings a certain contentment, and the occasional, but no less profound, joy. I do this kind of thing, along with Elvis, Dante, Liverpool, Wales, and writing. Some people collect stamps or play squash or go to the movies or eat out. It's a hobby of mine, a continuation from the days when I had to track Françoise’s albums down in the UK. Sometimes the song really does exist and just begs to be found. Often, the missing song is the figment someone's wishful imaginaion or just poor recollection on my part. Françoise is an eternal inspiration and frustration to enthusiastic obsessives such as I. Indeed, I am ever in the process of tracking an elusive number down. There may well be the odd song that is missing. Or, more accurately, every song I have managed to track down. The following table gives a (well-nigh) complete list of every song ever recorded by Françoise Hardy. ![]()
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