Françoise Hardy, a French singer, actor and model whose classical beauty and often melancholy music combined to transfix fans internationally in the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 80. Her son, ...

Amid the counterculture engulfing the Western world, France's May 1968 political turmoil found its flames fanned by the era's pop hits in the country's charts.

Hardy, whose lyrics often captured the angst and longing of adolescence, had been battling lymphatic cancer since 2004. By The Associated Press Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon ...

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