RIP Françoise Hardy
RIP Françoise Hardy
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L.A. Lakers' Jerry West (1938-2024). Rest in peace.
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Some years ago, when I read a couple if biographies on Nick Drake I discovered Françoise Hardy and Nick Drake met a few times. There was even talk about an album from Hardy with Nick Drake's songs.Originally Posted by Rarebird
See also this UNCUT-interview with Françoise Hardy: https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/fra...-young-105862/
While she was working with Tuca, Hardy was also on the lookout for other musicians to collaborate with. One songwriter that interested her was Nick Drake. “He had read how enthusiastic I was about one of his albums,” Hardy explains, “and so he came to the studio where I was recording in London, and he sat in the corner, almost hidden, and he never said one word. I was so full of admiration for his work, so I didn’t dare to say anything, and he didn’t dare to say anything [laughs].”
“Joe Boyd came up with this brilliant idea that Nick was going to write an album of songs for Françoise,” says producer and arranger Tony Cox. “I was going to produce it. So we travelled over to Paris – it was all pretty weird because Nick was a painfully shy bloke. Françoise is incredibly neurotic. She won’t do things like shaking hands, because she’s scared of catching germs from people.”
The Drake collaboration never happened, but Cox was keen to work with Hardy regardless. So, in late 1971, the singer travelled once again to London, this time to Chelsea’s Sound Techniques, to record a full album with Cox and a crack team of British folk-rockers, including Richard Thompson and Pat Donaldson.
Unfortunately this never happened, but she did collaborated with Iggy Pop and they recorded a song together on her "Clair-Obscur" album.
RIP Jerry West.
Not a musician but a fellow prog fan, Kurt Matson (known as NorCal Kurt on the aural moon website) recently passed away. I knew him from Rosfest and aural moon. I didn't know him super well but he seemed like a good guy. RIP Kurt.
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Knew him from ProgDay, was acgood guy. RIP
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He was real good friends with Rick Dashiell.
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He was a member here too, though I hadn't seen him post in a long time.
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I did not know him super well either, but had met him at various prog fests over the years. Really nice guy.
Big loss for rock, Suzi Quatro has passed. RIP
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Funny that this is the only source of this info....posted weeks ago......Wikipedia still lists her as alive.
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I wonder about that as well.
I never met him, but I believe he lived in Vermont about a two-hour drive away from me if I'm thinking of the right person. By all accounts he was a really nice guy.
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Fake news. That’s a YT site devoted to creating celebrity death hoaxes.
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He lived in California (hence the name) but later (in the past six years or so) moved somewhere in New England but I'm not sure exactly where (possibly Vermont) so that could be him.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Yeah, there's at least one other YT channel that does that crap. Whoever creates these things are real scum imo.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Yep, that's the guy. Kurt was a super nice guy and I missed him after he moved from CA to VT. RIP.
I did not know Kurt by name but if l saw a picture l am sure l would recognize him. I knew most of the Progday folks, and l am always sad to hear of the loss of a fellow Progday traveller.
RIP Kurt.
RIP to the Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays.
Aw man, that sucks. I got to see him play once when l was a kid.
Not sure how many times he attended ProgDay, but I know he was there for some of them. I am guessing you would recognize him.
Here's a picture of Kurt. The shirt he is wearing is from a little festival he himself put together back in 2013 when he still lived in the Bay Area. He organized a few shows that I knew of.
Kurt.jpg
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