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, ...

First things first. Try to forget that Jacques Brel, the Belgian singer-songwriter, is indirectly responsible for Terry Jacks's Seasons in the Sun. Forget also for a moment Scott Walker, whose ...

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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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There is a fine musical to be written about the life and times of David O. Frazier, who died Sunday at age 76. It would be filled with music both sad and joyous, and feature lavish ...

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Behind the Brel – The Story of a Musical Genius (Radio 2) didn't start particularly well. It was a full three minutes before we heard from presenter Marc Almond. Before that, we endured a range of ...

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 ...

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