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Post by sistereurope on Oct 10, 2008 13:57:22 GMT -5
I just saw a link to this article so I had to have a look. I really like Jacques Brel (despite him being outside of my usual rock and roll genre!). I love the songs Orly and Ne me quitte pas. He can really do a ballad...I picture sitting in a smoky cafe in Paris on a rainy evening whenever I hear him sing. Anyway, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of his death. He was only 49 when he died! timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2008/10/post.html |
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Post by geordy on Oct 10, 2008 17:34:43 GMT -5
I very much like his work too... There was an off B'way show..Jacques Brel is alive and living in NY..or something like that...but that was before I was a fan...when it is on again..and it will be...I'll be sure to go! ;D Maybe you will too!  |
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Post by Anne on Oct 11, 2008 2:00:12 GMT -5
I just love him . He was a great poet and often very sarcastic too . I so much wish I could have seen him in a concert, but he had long stopped performing in concerts when he died 30 years ago . Number 2 that I would have loved to see in concert is Edith Piaf, and there is no number 3 .
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Post by sistereurope on Oct 13, 2008 8:34:40 GMT -5
Anne - I totally agree. Growing up, the only French singer I ever heard was Maurice Chevalier...sorry, but in my opinion, he can't hold a candle to Brel!!
And yes geordy, I read about the show but never got to see it...maybe it will return to Broadway someday soon.
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Post by geordy on Oct 13, 2008 9:04:37 GMT -5
The show tends to re-appear ...maybe next time we can arrange an OPF GT around a performance! As for now ...I was looking forward to "A Tale of Two Cities" but reviews have been dismal...and with the prices for B'way musicals these days....not that I agree with reviews all the time...loved "Chess" both here and in London(they were quite different) and the album would still be a favorite if I had something to play it on....  I saw Charles Aznavour a few years back..quite a few.. at the theater on B'way in the Marriott hotel...he was great! |
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Post by cigalechanta on Oct 13, 2008 21:45:00 GMT -5
I recently read about the auction of his personal things.
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Oct 14, 2008 12:14:33 GMT -5
I've always thought of him as something of a forerunner of Leonard Cohen, although their music isn't alike their sensibilities always seemed quite compatible to me. . . . and I like that he's "alive and well and living in New York," as the really intriguing songwriters of course should be excused from dying (or, as William Saroyan said, "I always assumed that an exception would be made in my case").
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Post by Darcy on Oct 25, 2008 22:08:21 GMT -5
Ladies, this is the Our PARIS forum, remember? The broadway play was Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Thanks for starting this thread, sister, I need to get a cd of his.! |
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Let the riot begin! LOL - 
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