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, ...

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 ...

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.

She spins, she pirouettes, right, left, forwards and backwards, in a gray jacket, then a white one, in trousers, in underwear, and sometimes without. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker twirls constantly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...