L'Amour fou (album)

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L’Amour fou

Studio album by

Françoise Hardy

Released

2012 (France)

Studio

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)

Personne d'autre
(2018)

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

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

27th 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 50 years of the singer's musical career (her 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 lyrics. "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]

Track listing

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

Personnel

Photographer: Gilles-Marie Zimmermann.
Artworker: Jean-Louis Duralek.
Instrumentalists:
- Drum kit: Fabrice Moreau (3-4-6-8-9), Mathieu Pigné (5), Erick Benzi (9).
- Double bass: Laurent Vernerey (3).
- Guitar: Michel Aymé (7), Erick Benzi (9), François Maurin (9).
- Bass guitar: Laurent Vernerey (1-4-6-8-9), Pascal Colomb (2), Édouard Marie (5), Calogero (7).
- Electric guitar: Dominique Blanc-Francard (3), Pascal Colomb (4), Arman Méliès (5), Darko Fitzgerald (5).
- Steel-string acoustic guitar: Thierry Stremler (8).
- Piano: Thierry Stremler (1-3-8), Pascal Colomb (2-4), Alain Lanty (4), Julien Noël (5), Dominique Spagnolo (7), Erick Benzi (9), François Maurin (9).
- Kettledrums: Pascal Colomb (2).
- Tom-tom drum: Julien Doré (5).
- String section: Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, directed by Dzjian Emin (1-3-5-7-8), Pascal Colomb (2-4), Alain Lanty (6).

Certifications and sales


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)^[7]	Gold	50,000^*
^* Sales figures based on certification alone.

References

^ Released in France in October 31, 2012, Éditions Albin Michel.
^ Françoise Hardy, Le Désespoir des singes... et autres bagatelles, Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, October 9, 2008.
^ About Françoise Hardy collected by Garth Cartwright in Sunday Times, April 14, 2013, Magazine, Culture/Music section: "We love her, yé-yé-yé".
^ Words of the poem called Chanson, from the collection of poems, Les Contemplations.
^ 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.
^ Member of Lilicub.
^ "French album certifications – Francoise Hardy – L'Amour fou" (in French). InfoDisc. Select FRANCOISE HARDY and click OK.

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Discography
Studio albums	Tous les garçons et les filles Le premier bonheur du jour Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano Mon amie la rose In Deutschland L'amitié Françoise Hardy Sings in English La maison où j'ai grandi Ma jeunesse fout le camp... En anglais Comment te dire adieu One-Nine-Seven-Zero Träume La question 4th English Album Message personnel Clair-obscur L'amour fou Personne d'autre
Compilation albums	Françoise Françoise in Italian
Singles	"Tous les garçons et les filles" "L'amour s'en va" "Mon amie la rose" "All Over the World" "Parlez-moi de lui" "Comment te dire adieu" "Message personnel"
Family	Jacques Dutronc Thomas Dutronc
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