23Feb
Legends: Jacques Brel
posted by Steve Bowbrick
My Dad used to play Jacques Brel LPs when I was a kid. No one in the house spoke French but you could tell that there was something going on there, something dark and clever. He was skinny and intense and unafraid. We learn from this edition of Legends, which is animated by a lot of lovely archive material, that he didn’t really want to sing his songs but at the beginning one else would so he had to (and Petula Clark is great).
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