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	Jacques Brel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brel was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium, a district of Brussels, but lived most of his life in Paris.
		Brel's father was co-owner of a cardboard factory and Brel started his professional life at that firm, apparently destined to follow in his father's footsteps.
		Brel died of lung cancer and was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia only a few yards away from painter Paul Gauguin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Brel (1218 words)

	Biography - Jacques BREL
		Jacques Romain Georges Brel was born in Belgium, in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels, on April, 8 1929.
		Brel's close friends, including Charles Aznavour, begged him to reconsider his decision and continue his singing career but Brel was adamant that his singing days were over.
		Brel returned to Brussels twice in the course of 1976 for medical examinations, but, ignoring the doctors' advice he returned to the Marquesas, in spite of the fact that the tropical climate was most unsuitable for his lungs.
	www.rfimusique.com /siteEn/biographie/biographie_6099.asp (3162 words)

	Jacques Brel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Brel's acute perception made him an innovative and creative painter of daily life with rare poetic ease.
		Few of his peers are considered to match his skill in fitting as much novelty and meaning in a sentence from a few words of common use.
		Brel's Romantic Lyricism sometimes revealed levels of darkness and bitter irony.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jacques_brel.htm (1329 words)

	Jacques Brel: Concord Players 2000 season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Born in Belgium in 1929, Jacques Brel was the son of a cardboard manufacturer and was being groomed to take over the family business.
		In his early twenties, Brel went to France and sang his songs in the taverns, cafes and inns of the villages and towns of the French countryside.
		Brel gave his approval, and in 1967 the show opened at The Village Gate in New York where it ran for five years.
	www.concordplayers.org /JacqBrel/JacqBrel.html (395 words)

	Global Hits: Jacques Brel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Jacques Brel is also being remembered this year in Hiva Oa, the South Pacific island where he lived towards the end of his life and where he is buried along with French painter Paul Gauguin.
		Brel's poetic repertoire spanned three decades and ranged from fierce satire to soulful ballads.
		Brel left for Paris when he was 24 so it was easy for outsiders to forget that he was Belgian.
	www.theworld.org /globalhits/2003/05/20.html (421 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jacques Brel
		Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932) is a French composer, arranger, conductor and pianist.
		Elly Stone is a singer most famous for her performance on Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris as an off-Broadway musical as well as her starring role in the 1974 movie of the same.
		Alternative album titles Jacques Brels recordings have been released in many different permutations, in different countries, and on different formats.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jacques-Brel (3323 words)

	Jacques Brel...
		Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, a late 1960s-early 1970s phenomenon celebrating the music of Belgian poet/troubadour Jacques Brel, is an important part of Northeast Ohio theater history.
		Brel's music ranges from marches to ballads, with most of the stories having an offbeat twist.
		Brel's songs are full of irony, with the story often taking an unusual twist at the end.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /brel.htm (892 words)

	Jacques Brel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Although it is often tought that Brel is French, his roots are in Belgium.
		Brel is somebody who ate mussels and frites and drank beer.
		The legacy of Brel : some 100 songs, the appearances in his films, the International Brel foundation, films of his live-performances at the Olympia in Paris and the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels that send shivers down your spine.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/BrelJacques.htm (1208 words)

	VH1.com : Jacques Brel : Biography
		Born in Brussels, Belgium, on April 8, 1929, Brel was the son of Romain Brel, who worked in an import-export firm, but later became co-director of a company that manufactured cardboard cartons, and Elisabeth (Lambertine) Brel.
		Brel announced his retirement from concert work in 1966, giving a final series of shows in Paris at the Olympia in the fall, but after that he had six months of performances internationally to fulfill.
		In France, Brel's reputation as one of the major singers and songwriters of the 20th century is secure.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/brel_jacques/bio.jhtml (1295 words)

	DVD Times - Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Jacques Brel’s songs are very much of the French tradition of singing that will be more familiar to English-speaking audiences through the songs of Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour, but would be more closely aligned with the classical poetic troubadour tradition of Georges Brassens and Joan Manuel Serrat.
		Brel’s songs are characterised by a wonderful exuberance, a celebration of wine, women and song, yet they are often tempered by an edge of bitterness, a sense of a melancholic longing for an youthful innocence uncorrupted by the horrors of war or the fear of old-age, death and oblivion.
		A renowned Brel singer, Elly Stone is, to my ears at least, very much the conventional stage singer, with a nice timbre in her voice that is reminiscent of the style of Julie Covington, but it is fairly monotone and lacking in range, tending to quaver.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=56551 (1577 words)

	Jacques Brel - The Belgian Pop & Rock Archives
		Although it is often thought that Brel is French, his roots are in Belgium.
		Brel is somebody who ate mussels and fries and drank beer.
		Brel's language was universal and the intensity of the performance overflowed the boundary of such a limiting definition as 'singer'.
	houbi.com /belpop/groups/brel.htm (1360 words)

	The Philomathesian
		Though Brel was much criticized for his disrespect of tradition, most of his detractors still listened with one ear and great attention to his wonderful performances of "those things" of which it is never appropriate to talk during cocktail parties.
		Brel the atheist came to conclude that life could be summed up as a series of attempts to avoid the inevitable.
		Brel's schizophrenic character, as reflected in the bipolarity of his repertoire, is reminiscent of Heinrich Böll's clown who spends his days amusing children and his nights crying under his make-up.
	www.students.wfu.edu /philo/journal/spring98/brel.html (1670 words)

	Biography 1958-1961 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In February, Miche, Jacques Brel's wife, comes back to live in Belgium as she prefers to wait in her home town for Jacques to come back from touring.
		In May, Jacques Brel is on tour in Canada and meets Félix Leclerc.
		On 20 November, Jacques Brel sings with Charles Aznavour at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.
	www.jacquesbrel.com /1958UK.htm (321 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / 'Jacques Brel' is livelier than ever
		But now that the great Gloucester Stage Company production of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" is ensconced at the new Stuart Street Playhouse/2nd Stage cabaret in the Radisson Hotel Boston (the former 57 Restaurant), you could say that the late Brel is twice as alive as he was in Gloucester.
		Brel sang of the passions of youth, the resignation and sadness of old age, the horrors of war, and the everyday absurdities of forging an identity when the spirit cries out to rebel while the society calls out to conform.
		Brel Deux is again led by the woman in the Barrett role.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2003/11/13/jacques_brel_is_livelier_than_ever (863 words)

	Jacques Brel - dublin music - dublin jazz
		Jacques Brel – Rough Diamond celebrates the life and music of the famous Belgian songwriter in The Helix on Wednesday the 2nd and Thursday the 3rd of June.
		Brel was born in Brussels and taught himself to play guitar at the age of 15.
		Brel's music was popularised in the English-speaking world by '60s singer/songwriter Scott Walker and the Off-Broadway revue show, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well ad Living in Paris.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/16/pt/0/spid/93701E10-26D1-4888-BBC06AE5EA2635E3.htm (350 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Singer Brel's album causes upset
		Brel considered the songs, including Mai 1940 and La Cathedrale, unfinished and left them off his final release.
		Brel had started recording songs for a planned double album in 1977, but ended up with 17 songs, which was not enough.
		Brel died in 1978 from complications from lung cancer.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3135418.stm (292 words)

	Jacques Brel Is Alive &
		Original CastJacques Brel (1929–78) was a Belgian who, after moving the bohemian dives of Paris, became accepted as one of France's leading singer-songwriters.
		Brel's forte, however, was a cynical but poetic survey of the hopes, fears and futility of the human condition expressed with a mocking wit—love, war and death being favourite themes.
		Brel was "discovered" by songwriter Mort Shuman who, with American poet Eric Blau, translated Brel's songs and presented 26 of them as an off-Broadway musical which ran for nearly four years in the late '60s.
	www.centrohd.com /music/albums/rating4j/jacques.htm (200 words)

	kingcountyjournal.com - Jacques Brel musical a sure thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		His most recognized song on this side of the Atlantic was the Kingston Trio's ``Seasons in the Sun,'' an English version of ``Le Moribond.'' It's a study of betrayal, murder and the tragedy of a wasted life, sung by a young man in his jail cell.
		Brel's singular combination of anger and romanticism caught on.
		Unofficially, according to those around him, Brel was disgusted with lots of things, particularly the hoopla and hypocrisy of show biz.
	www.kingcountyjournal.com /sited/story/html/183818 (536 words)

	Jacques Brel :: Learn French at Alliance Française - South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Jacques Brel, born in Belgium in 1929 died of cancer in 1978.
		Brel was a master at describing everyday situations and tying eternal emotional links with these bitter sweet characters.
		When Jacques Brel left us, it was as though he took with him a little of the potential that lies dormant in each of us.
	www.alliance.org.za /article.php3?id_article=0086 (812 words)

	Infiniment by Jacques Brel CD
		Brel's best-known tunes are here--"Le Moribond" (known to Americans via Terry Jack's version titled "Seasons in the Sun"), the sweeping "Le Vieux," and the heartwrenching "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (which has been covered by countless English-language artists as "If You Go Away"), just to name a few.
		Throughout, Brel's resonant baritone, ironic wit, and masterful flair for nuanced, theatrical delivery are on abundant display.
		Story-songs in the classic Brel tradition, these are tales of tragic love ("Sans Exigences"), national pride ("Mai 40"), and fanciful visions ("La Cathedrale," in which the narrator imagines sailing the world in a church-turned-ship).
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6762307/a/Infiniment.htm (370 words)

	Boeing Radiation Effects Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Since its inception in 1963, BREL has been involved in supporting major Boeing programs as well as outside customers in evaluating, qualifying, and testing electronic semiconductor parts, in conducting space radiation simulation studies, and in assessing and simulating radiation effects in materials.
		Recently, BREL has been evaluating the feasibility of using particle accelerators as a method of curing high technology composite materials intended for use as surfaces and structures in space and airborne vehicles.
		Numerous simulation facilities are available both within BREL and at outside agencies to cover nearly all nuclear radiation environments associated with natural space and weapon system threats.
	www.boeing.com /assocproducts/radiationlab (199 words)

	Amazon.com: Sings Jacques Brel [IMPORT]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Brel was a philosopher of the people so there is something for everybody here.
		Jacques Brel was one of the greatest songwriters of the century, tackling subjects that even Dylan rarely visited.
		It should be noted that that "Sings Jacques Brel" takes all of the covers of Brel tunes from Scott's first three solo albums, and it could be argued the songs are best heard in the context of those excellent albums (weakened only by a few dud covers).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000075YF?v=glance (1378 words)

	Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Brel’s own sexy-ugly presence contributed to the love affair: photos of him with a cigarette inevitably clutched in his crooked teeth were omnipresent symbols of rakish chic (think Belmondo on a motorcycle).
		They translated a number of Brel songs into English, and fused them into an extended revue for four performers, calling it Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
		Indeed, Brel's songs are the sort for which the French have an entire vocabulary (boulevardier, gamin, piquant), but by the 1980s the rest of the world found them merely twee.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-08-15/theater2.shtml (602 words)

	Frenchculture.org \| Cinema \| Dennis Heroux: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Kino DVD 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Eschewing conventional narrative, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris transforms Mort Shuman and Eric Blau's 35-song stage revue into a movie musical that showcases both Brel's songwriting and the resourceful audacity of 70's filmmaking.
		Belgian-born Brel's richly sensual, uncompromising and lyrical songs provide a simultaneously ecstatic and tragic framework for this flamboyant and moving film.
		Working from the surreal imagery and concrete emotions with which Brel laced his lyrics, songwriter Mort Shuman (himself co-creator of some of the most memorable hit songs for the Drifters and Elvis Presley) transforms Brel's French chansons into lushly romantic yet unsentimental English language versions.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/heroux/brel.html (379 words)

	Amazon.com: Jacques Brel 1/Grand Jacques [IMPORT]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Recently Fondation Brel has released a collection of Brel's works, including the earliest and inedited ones from the end and the very beginning of Brel's career.
		Originally Brel sang it with just his guitar as most of his first songs, this is done with Rauber's orchestra.
		In these early recordings, Brel's lyrics (which are indeed already cynical and full of poetry) deal with his most beloved issues: love, the absurdity of war, the meaning or lack of meaning of man's life, death, religion, and hope).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006UMW?v=glance (925 words)

	Brel, Jacques
		Brel worked in the chansonnier (singer-songwriter) tradition, often with orchestral arrangements.
		Other Brel songs are ‘Marieke’ (1961), ‘Le Moribond/Seasons in the Sun’ (1961), ‘La Colombe’ (1960), and ‘Amsterdam’ (1964).
		The album Brel (1977) was his last work.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0039505.html (141 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / 'Jacques Brel' is livelier than ever
		That's because there are two casts involved, a new one that is acting up a storm until Nov. 23 and the more subdued but equally virtuoso original cast that has other commitments until then.
		Brel had more than a touch of the poet, and his songs are actually mini short stories.
		At the head of Edmiston's cast was Leigh Barrett, who sang of love and loneliness, heart and heartbreak, with such piercing wisdom that she seemed to be directly channeling Brel, or even some higher power.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/11/13/jacques_brel_is_livelier_than_ever (876 words)

	Playbill News: ON THE RECORD: Texas, L'il Darlin' and "Brel Infinement"
		Brel returned to town a mere ten weeks later, reopening on Broadway at the Royale for a not-especially well-attended 51-performance run.
		Brel, at least by the time he made these recordings, seems to have had access to whatever he wanted musically.
		Brel wrote his own lyrics, as well as the music for most of the later songs; the music for the earlier ones is mostly by Brel and/or Gerard Jouannest.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/89287.html (1499 words)

	Jacques Brel \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		My favourite Brel song, btw, is his wistful, sardonic tribute to his country: flat, boring Belgium: Le plat pays.
		The unspoken, bitterly ironic message is that it's exactly this fantastical desperation that's driving his lover away - the heartbroken repetition of "don't leave me" is just the thing that will ensure she does - expressing one of the most painful and eloquent truths about the pitfalls of loving someone.
		Brel may be a special case - he wraps his "tunes" around his words - but I think he was, essentially, a musician.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/28835 (3823 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well [Cast Recording] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mortality is the foremost theme in all of Brel's work, and what made him so great is how he made death and poverty beautiful and not so much a tragedy.
		Brel's greatest talent in my opinion though is how he dealt with challenging and complex issues using such simple language that anybody can understand them, and not only that, but feel it in their heart.
		Mort Shuman's "Amsterdam," Brel's dedication to the night life in the port of the Dutch city, haunts and enlivens me. His "Next", a sad memory of his first sexual encounter, provided gratis by the army, makes it clear why he never wants to be "next" ever again.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067AS5 (1410 words)

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