2023-10-03 17:20:09
In the 1960s, the legendary artist wrote several letters to a French singer, who did not receive them until many years later.
It is one of those impossible love stories that everyone ignores. In 2018, one of them, improbable, resurfaced in Nagui’s show, the Original Band, on France Inter. Invited on the station, a French singer revealed having received drafts of letters, written by Bob Dylan in the 1960s and of which she was unaware, until much more recently, of the existence. This singer is Françoise Hardy!
Bob Dylan had, at the time, seen the young artist on television and fell madly in love when discovering a photo, she says on France Inter. In the 1960s, the legendary singer liked to go daily to a cafe in Greenwich Village, New York. On his typewriter, he then writes letters and abandons some on the spot, picked up by the owner of the establishment.
Françoise Hardy’s reaction
According to the story of Francoise Hardy, it was friends of the latter who collected the drafts written for her, before sending them to her, many years later. “These two people, who took a long time to find me, had inherited certain documents,” says Françoise Hardy. “They thought these might interest me,” she confides, claiming to have been “deeply touched” by reading these letters, in which it is mentioned “for Françoise Hardy”.
“He talks about the distance, that it makes things impossible. And that maybe there was no value in falling in love so much with a photo, but he also says that he doesn’t need to knowing myself to know who I am”, says Françoise Hardy, who found reading the words of Bob Dylan painful and described this romance as an “adolescent romantic fixation”. The two artists, who met in 1966 at the Olympia in Paris, never saw each other again.
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