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 ...

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, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Jacques Brel was born into a bourgeois Belgian family in 1929, but as he grew up he came to loathe what he called the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. When Alastair Campbell [former strategist for the UK prime minister] popped up on radio last month to deliver a half-hour homily to ...