L'Amour fou (album)

L’Amour fou
Studio album by Françoise Hardy
Released 2012 (France)
Recorded Studio Labomatic, Paris, France
Studio M1, Skopje, Macedonia
Genre French pop
Length 37:00
Language French
Label Virgin Records/EMI Group
Françoise Hardy chronology
La Pluie sans parapluie
(2010)		 L’Amour fou
(2012)

L’Amour fou (Crazy Love) is the 27th and last studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. Released in France on November 5th, 2012 on CD Virgin/EMI (5099997278726), and December 3th, 2012 on LP Virgin/EMI (5099997278719).

It was published in Great Britain in April 15th, 2013 on CD, Virgin/EMI (5099997278726).

The ultimate album

The album L’Amour fou (Crazy Love) contains ten original songs where Hardy sings over ambient piano and the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra’s string arrangements. This album marks the 50 years of musical career of the singer (The debut album was released in November 1962), appearing simultaneously with a book also called L’Amour fou.[1]

“My publisher wanted another book after my autobiography which met some success,” [2] she says, “and I had these stories originally written for myself many years ago. Stories exploring the pain of love. He encouraged me to rewrite them and they came out in conjunction with the album.” On the album, Hardy swings a literary connection by turning a Victor Hugo poem into a lyric. “I liked the melody, and while I generally do not like poems, this one was a marvel of simplicity. It goes: ‘Why are you coming to see me if you have nothing to tell me?’ I like that. […] The album did not find a wide audience when issued in France. Radio did not play it. Radio only plays music for kids, and for an artist like myself who does not tour, well, I need radio.”[3]

In 2015, in interviews given to various medias[4] after a serious health accident in March, Françoise Hardy announces that she has decided to put an end to her musical career. L’Amour fou is her last album.

Background

Tracklist

No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "L'Amour fou"  Françoise HardyThierry Stremler 2:29
2. "Les Fous de Bassan"  Françoise HardyPascal Colomb 3:48
3. "Mal au cœur"  Françoise HardyThierry Stremler 3:09
4. "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire…"  Victor Hugo[5]Bertrand Pierre[6] 3:44
5. "Normandia"  Julien DoréJulien Doré 4:56
6. "Piano-bar"  Françoise HardyAlain Lanty 3:29
7. "Pourquoi vous ?"  Françoise HardyCalogero 3:31
8. "Soie et fourrures"  Françoise HardyThierry Stremler 3:33
9. "L'Enfer et le Paradis"  Benoît Carré, Françoise HardyBenoît Carré[7] 4:05
10. "Rendez-vous dans une autre vie"  Françoise HardyFrançois Maurin 3:51
Total length:
 37:00

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Released in France in October 31, 2012, Éditions Albin Michel.
  2. ↑ Françoise Hardy, Le Désespoir des singes... et autres bagatelles, Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, October 9, 2008.
  3. ↑ About Françoise Hardy collected by Garth Cartwright in Sunday Times, April 14, 2013, Magazine, Culture/Music section: “We love her, yé-yé-yé”.
  4. ↑ RTL: June 25, by Marc-Olivier Fogiel - BFM TV: July 23, by Philippe Dufreigne - Europe 1: July 27, by Thierry Geffrotin.
  5. ↑ Words of the poem called Chanson, from the collection of poems, Les Contemplations.
  6. ↑ Ex member of Pow woW; he continued his solo career. He set to music poems by Victor Hugo which he recorded on an album called Si vous n’avez rien à me dire, published by Bonsai Music, November 18, 2010.
  7. ↑ Member of Lilicub.
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