PARIS (AP) — Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died. She was 80. Her son, musician Thomas Dutronc, announced her death on social media, sharing a poignant ...

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 ...