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Jacques Brel
Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world. He is considered a master of the modern chanson.
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Born 8 April 1929 · Died 9 October 1978 · Q1666
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2026· 11 entries
Published video “Je suis un soir d’été ♫♪ #brel”.
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Published video “Les vieux ♫ (Live 1963) #brel”.
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Published video “Madeleine ♪♫”.
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Published video “Non, Jef, t'es pas tout seul ♫♪ #brel”.
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Published video “Les bourgeois ♫♪ #brel #music”.
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Published video “La Fanette ♫♪ #brel”.
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Published video “Les fenêtres ♫♪ #brel”.
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Published video “La valse à mille temps ♫♪ #brel”.
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Published video “Les vieux ♫♪ (live) #brel”.
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Published video “Et moi, et moi... j'viens pour le gaz ♫♪ #brel”.
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2025· 1 entry
Published video “Jacques Brel - Les Vieux”.
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2023· 1 entry
Published video “Jacques Brel - La valse à mille temps (Clip Officiel)”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Scott Walker Meets Jacques Brel”.
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “Brel & Barbara: A Cappella”.
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Released album “The Album”.
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Released album “Il était une voix”.
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2018· 4 entries
Released album “Cabarets (1954–1956) / À l’Alhambra (1962)”.
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Published video “Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel - Le Plat Pays (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Released album “Intégrale 1953–1977”.
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Released album “Le Grand”.
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2017· 4 entries
Published video “JacquesBrelVEVO Live Stream”.
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Released album “Bruxelles”.
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Released album “Top 40 Jacques Brel - His Ultimate Top 40 Collection”.
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Released album “Ses plus grandes chansons”.
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2016· 5 entries
Published video “Jacques Brel - L'Amour Est Mort”.
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Released album “6 Original Albums”.
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Released album “Trois hommes sur la photo”.
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Released album “Jacques Brel”.
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Released album “Ne me quitte pas - Le Plat Pays”.
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2015· 6 entries
Published video “Jacques Brel - Mathilde”.
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Published video “Jacques Brel - La valse à mille temps”.
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Published video “Jacques Brel - Vesoul”.
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Published video “Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel - Quand on n’a que l’amour (audio officiel)”.
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Published video “Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel - Amsterdam (Live Officiel Olympia 1964)”.
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Released album “3 CD Collection / 6 Original Albums”.
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Simply Brel”.
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Released album “2 CD Essentials”.
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2013· 7 entries
Released album “Les 50 Plus Belles Chansons”.
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Released album “Suivre l’étoile”.
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Straker released both a studio album and live DVD under the title Peter Straker's Brel
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Released album “Brel, Brassens, Ferré”.
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Released album “60 plus belles chansons”.
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Released album “The Very Best of”.
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Released album “Chansons et musiques de films”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “The Ballad of Jacques Brel”.
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Mashrou' Leila, an indie band from Lebanon sang "ما تتركني هيك – ne me quitte pas"
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2011· 3 entries
Released album “Golden Greats”.
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A track from his EP Lucio Milkowski, using the titles of several Brel songs to create his own text
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Released album “Formidable !”.
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2010· 7 entries
Released album “Trois poètes : Brel, Brassens, Ferré”.
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Released album “L’Intégrale des albums studio”.
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Released album “L’Intégrale des albums originaux”.
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Released album “One, Two, Three, Four: The Studio Albums”.
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Released album “My Death”.
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Released album “Je t’aime”.
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Released album “Best of the Best Collection : Ne me quitte pas”.
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Forever”.
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2008· 5 entries
Released album “Enregistrements PHILIPS 1954-1961”.
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Released album “BrelBrassensFerré”.
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Released album “C’est comme ça”.
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On the occasion of the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of his death, the Hiva Oa airfield in the Marquesas was officially renamed Hiva Oa – Jacques-Brel airfield
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Released album “Quand on n'a que l'amour”.
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “I Am the Shadow of the Songs”.
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Released album “Here’s Jacques Brel”.
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Released album “Jacques Brel & Friends”.
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Released album “Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Jacques Brel : French Legends from the 40’s and 50’s”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Les Débuts des Trois Grands : 1952–1954”.
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2004· 1 entry
The album L'Integrale won an Edison award (Historical edition)
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Brel 1953 (Chansons inédites)”.
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Released album “Comme quand on était beau”.
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Released album “L’Intégrale”.
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Released album “Infiniment”.
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Jacques Brel Portrait”.
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Released album “Portrait”.
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In the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by Andrew Wale
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Released album “Brel”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Ballades et mots d'amour”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Mijn vlakke land”.
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1997· 1 entry
At the Edinburgh Fringe, and subsequently in a new version at the King's Head Theatre, London in 2004
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Quand on n’a que l’amour”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Jacques Brel, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1991· 3 entries
The American band Vambo Marble Eye recorded a version of "Next" for their album Two Trick Pony, 18 years after an English-language version of the song by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band in 1973, from their Next album
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Released album “Jacques Brel, Vol. 2”.
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Released "Jacky", which became a successful hit single
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Ses 16 plus belles chansons”.
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Marc Almond, who had performed Brel songs on his early albums with Marc and the Mambas, released his successful Jacques, an album composed solely of Jacques Brel songs
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1988· 5 entries
Released album “De 24 grootste successen”.
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Released album “Intégrale Grand Jacques”.
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Released album “Le Coffret souvenir”.
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A statue Marieke was revealed in Bruges, Belgium to honor the song of the same name in which the city is mentioned
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Released album “Quinze ans d’amour”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Jacques Brel, Vol. 1”.
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1986· 1 entry
Momus and more recently Barb Jungr recorded new English translations of "Ne me quitte pas" which are much nearer to the original
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1982· 1 entry
The Jacques Brel station on line 5 of the Brussels metro was inaugurated
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1981· 1 entry
Is a tribute to Brel, also referring to his song "Il neige sur Liège" (It snows in Liège)
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1979· 3 entries
The town of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage in France honoured the poet by naming a municipal square after him
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On her album Je suis Ève, paying tribute to the singer who had died a few months earlier
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Released album “Jacques Brel - Volume 3”.
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1978· 5 entries
Died 1978-10-09.
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“Quand un homme n'a pas peur de coucher avec une femme, c'est qu'il ne l'aime pas”
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“tylko taki kąt,mały kąt mi wskaż,gdzie twój słychać śmiech,widać twoją twarz,chcę gdy słońca krągwzejdzie – być co dniacieniem twoich rąk,cieniem twego psanie opuszczaj mnie”
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“przecież zdarza się,że największy żarciska wulkan, coniby dawno zmarł,pól spalonych skrajwięcej zrodzi zbóżniż zielony majw czas wiosennych zórz”
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“Les hommes ne disent que des bêtises quand ils parlent des femmes. Par contre les femmes ne disent pas toujours des sottises quand elles parlent des hommes.”
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1977· 5 entries
Brel won the Premio Tenco for his entire career
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Brel decided to record one final album
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Released album “Jacques Brel chante ses plus grands succès de 1955 à 1961”.
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Released album “Les Marquises”.
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Released album “Jacques Brel - Volume 1”.
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1976· 3 entries
Pierre Perret recorded "Ma nouvelle adresse", a song about Brel's departure for Polynesia
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Brel returned to Brussels twice for medical examinations
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Released album “Jacques Brel - Volume 2”.
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1975· 3 entries
Released album “La Chanson française 2”.
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Released album “If You Go Away: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Singing in Paris”.
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A song which refers to some of the author's songs and regrets that he left the stage so early
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1973· 3 entries
Brel appeared in his ninth feature film, Le Far West, his second directorial effort
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Brel appeared in his tenth and final feature film, L'emmerdeur (The troublemaker), directed by Édouard Molinaro and co-starred Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier, and Jean-Pierre Darras
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And was released as a bonus track on the 1990 reissue of Pin Ups
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1972· 4 entries
Brel appeared in his eighth feature film, Le Bar de la fourche (The bar at the crossing), directed by Alain Levent and co-starring Rosy Varte and Isabelle Huppert
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Released album “Ne me quitte pas”.
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Brel appeared in his seventh feature film, L'aventure, c'est l'aventure (The adventure is the adventure), directed by Claude Lelouch
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Brel signed a special 30-year contract with Barclay Records
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1971· 3 entries
Brel appeared in his fifth feature film, Franz, the first film he directed
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"Brel parle" by Marc Lobet in 1971
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Brel appeared in his sixth feature film, Les Assassins de l'ordre, directed by Marcel Carné and co-starring Paola Pitagora, Catherine Rouvel, and Charles Denner
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1970· 2 entries
Brel appeared in his fourth feature film, Mont-Dragon , directed by Jean Valère and co-starring François Prévost, Paul le Person, and Catherine Rouvel, with a screen play by Robert Margerit
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Patty Pravo published the Italian version, "Non andare via", as a single, Gino Paoli had published the same version in 1962 as the B-side of his "Devi sapere" single
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1969· 1 entry
Brel appeared in his third film, Mon oncle Benjamin (My uncle Benjamin), directed by Édouard Molinaro and co-starring Claude Jade and Bernard Blier
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1968· 8 entries
Released album “Les Prénoms”.
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Released album “J’arrive”.
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Singer Salome recorded the Catalan version "No em deixis mai"
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Brel appeared in his second film, La Bande à Bonnot (The Bonnot Gang), directed by Philippe Fourastié and co-starring Annie Girardot and Bruno Cremer
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English star Matt Monro and Mexican singer Angelica Maria recorded Spanish versions titled "No me dejes
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Translated a number of Brel's songs into Armenian
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Were the earliest releases of the Blau-Shuman translations
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An American experimental musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris made its debut
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Enregistrement public”.
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Released album “67”.
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Brel began his film career, appearing in André Cayatte's Les risques du métier (Risky business), co-starring Emmanuelle Riva, Jacques Harden, and Nadine Alari
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “Ces gens‐là”.
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Released album “Les Bonbons”.
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “Ces gens-là”.
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Reprise Records licensed tracks from Barclay for a United States album titled Jacques Brel
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Mathilde”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Les Bigotes”.
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1962· 3 entries
Released album “N°6 : Les Bourgeois”.
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Released album “Les Bourgeois”.
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For the album Jacques Brel
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “N°5 : Marieke”.
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “N°4 : La Valse à mille temps”.
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “N°3 : Au printemps”.
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1957· 1 entry
Released album “N°2 : Quand on n’a que l’amour”.
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1954· 2 entries
Released album “N°1 : Jacques Brel et ses Chansons”.
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Brel participated in the music contest Grand Prix de la Chanson in Knokke-le-Zoute, finishing a disappointing 27th out of 28 participants
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1952· 1 entry
Brel began writing songs and performing them at family gatherings and on Brussels' cabaret circuit
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1944· 1 entry
At the age of 15, Brel began playing the guitar
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-04-08.
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1916· 1 entry
Leaves Europe, which is torn apart by the war, and moves to Canada, intending to meet up with Maria, the only woman he ever loved
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