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Jacob Phillips

Francoise Hardy, French singer and 60s pop icon, dies aged 80

French singer Francoise Hardy, who shot to international stardom in the 1960s, has died aged 80, her son has announced.

Hardy became a pop icon in the 1960s with Mick Jagger describing her as his ideal woman. Bob Dylan also wrote a poem for her and her androgynous style was imitated around the world.

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