In the pantheon of 20th century music icons it is almost unheard of to discover, decades later, new fly-on-the wall insights to the artist's most controversial period. Fans of Jacques Brel, the ...

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When the Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel had his American debut at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 4, 1965, his passionate lyrics and soulful delivery — by turns funny, poetic, heartbreaking, bitter, ...

Jacques Brel was one of the great representatives of French chanson in the post-World War II period. Born into a bourgeois family, Brel rejected the future awaiting him in his father’s cardboard ...

The musical revue Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris has returned to New York. The tuner, which was directed by Gordon Greenberg and features Robert Cuccioli, Natascia Diaz, Rodney ...

I remember clearly when I first became aware of Jacques Brel's music – the day he died. It was October 1978 and I was on my year abroad as part of my languages degree. I had been busking in ...

The Belgian-born master of the French chanson, who gave his name and his songs to the 1968 musical revue Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, is neither alive, nor especially well, and ...

The Belgian singer-songwriter dwelt fearlessly on love, death and desperate emotion in works that inspired countless artists, and spawned covers that only rarely matched his intensity 1. Quand On N’a ...

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Jacques Brel would have been 80 this year. To all fans and admirers of this unique singer-songwriter, this will be an extraordinarily poignant thought, following hard on last year’s even sadder ...