Mention Jacques Brel and you summon up images of cabaret stools, turtlenecks, berets and pretentious chanteuses with bad French accents trying to get their lips around “Ne Me Quitte Pas.” For that, we ...

(Original cast of off-Broadway show: Columbia D2S-779). Brel’s sardonic French songs retain a great deal of their point and wit when adapted into English for an offBroadway revue. In fact they’re even ...

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 ...

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 ...

Any Scot who’s been labelled English will understand how Jacques Brel felt about being called French. The great chansonnier, who has been far from alive and well these past 36 years (he died of lung ...