Jacques Brel’s rise to legendary status in the English speaking world was achieved posthumously and by stealth. Type his name into the UK Official Charts’ search engine for instance, and your total ...

Unlike the title of the enduring musical revue that just opened at ACT Theatre, Jacques Brel is not alive and well and living in Paris. But the sardonic, wise and intensely emotive songs of this ...

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, ...

In celebration of Sing'Theatre’s revival of the off-Broadway revue, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, we uncover five lesser-known facts about the late chansonnier If you once ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Sacrilege? Not according to the famous singer, actor, and songwriter Brel ...

Think of Stratford’s production of this cycle of songs by the great Belgian troubadour Jacques Brel as a missed opportunity. The material is very strong – powerful grown-up songs, many of them with ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Alastair Campbell [former strategist for the UK prime minister] popped up on radio last month to deliver a half-hour homily to Jacques Brel - apparently his favourite singer - I was appalled. It ...

The 30th anniversary of the death of the greatest popular singer in the French language has generated an avalanche of tributes this week – and an unseemly legal row. Sotheby's Paris will today auction ...

(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 ...