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, ...

Nous arrivons au bout de notre voyage. Nous arrivons à la date de 1963, date charnière où le milieu de la chanson va basculer ...

For a song written about a very particular set of circumstances, Jacques Brel’s “Ne me quitte pas” has proved to have universal power. There’s not just an English translation for this song. You can be ...

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 Gate theatre is in ruins. Craters in the plaster expose crumbling brickwork beneath, familiar columns are falling away and a yawning hole in the ceiling looks as though a bomb has torn through it.

"Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" has always known that embassies are under attack, that diplomatic and romantic relations are chronically strained and that survival is rough on ...

There were only two mourners on the plane that took Jacques Brel's body home this weekend to Atuona, the Pacific island in the Marquesas archipelago. His manager, Charley Marouani, and Madly, the West ...

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 ...

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 ...

Controversy has tainted celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the death of Belgian poet-singer-actor Jacques Brel after his daughter slammed a Paris Sotheby's auction of memorabilia as 'odious and ...