From her start in the yé-yé 1960s to the depths she plumbed as a singer-songwriter, Hardy, who died Tuesday, continued to entrance new generations of listeners.
Category: Nineteen Hundred Eighties
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Ron Edmonds, 77, Whose Camera Captured the Shooting of Reagan, Dies
Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded.
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Cyndi Lauper Could Only Ever Be Herself
She’s plotting a farewell tour. She’s starring in a documentary about her life. And she’s got nothing left to prove.
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Political Furor Over U.S. Steel Bid Puts Cfius in Spotlight
Backlash over the deal has echoes of the 1980s when Nippon Steel tried and failed to buy another American metal company.
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Patti Astor, Fun Gallery Co-Founder, Dies at 74
She was a founder of the Fun Gallery, which staged early shows by Keith Haring and other artists who defined the city’s downtown scene in the 1980s.
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Serge Raoul, Whose SoHo Bistro Glittered With Stars, Dies at 86
Raoul’s, which he founded, was a celebrity magnet and a neighborhood institution in the 1970s and ’80s. But he had never planned on a life in the restaurant business.
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Karl Wallinger, Who Sang With World Party and the Waterboys, Dies at 66
As a songwriter and instrumentalist as well, he blended pop and folk influences into music that helped define college radio in the 1980s and ’90s.
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China Shuts Down a News Conference, Shutting a Tiny Window for Its People
Once a year, the premier held a news conference, explaining the economy and giving Chinese a taste of political participation. That has come to an end.
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Claude Montana, Fashion Designer Whose Look Defined the ’80s, Dies at 76
With meticulous tailoring and a taste for leather, he was the architect of the decade’s highly structured and eroticized tough chic style.
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Mars Williams, 68, Saxophonist Who Straddled New Wave and Jazz, Dies
He made his name in the 1980s with the Waitresses and the Psychedelic Furs, but his roots were in the exploratory jazz of Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman.