Jacques Brel ... German invasion of Belgium, the Algerian independence struggle in the late 1950s and the mass radicalization of the 1960s. Those events profoundly marked Brel’s life and art ...

Fans of Jacques Brel ... be seen in a small museum in Brussels devoted to one of Belgium’s greatest heroes. Brel exploded onto the music scene in the late 1950s and is best known for his ...

The music was ... Brel and Belgium Belgium this week commemorates the 30th anniversary of the death of one of its few famous sons, but a new documentary exposes Jacques Brel's love-hate ...

In late October, British music fan Edward Carter compiled a giant ... who regarded it as a “real steaming pile of crap.” Adapted from a Jacques Brel song, Jacks’ wimpy delivery and the ...

Jacques Brel, René Magritte and Hergé may spring fairly easily to mind but a more detailed knowledge of Belgium’s celebrated ... most famous creation, the music we listen to today would ...

death and his native Belgium. “Jacques Brel is an absolutely seminal figure in the genesis and legacy of the chanson française,” says Amy Graves Monroe, associate professor of French and chair of the ...