Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
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At the time of this show's 1968 Greenwich Village debut, French singer-songwriter Jacques Brel's body of theatrically insightful ballads was already an obscure but deeply influential treasure trove for many American musicians. The revue's success would go on to influence artists as diverse as Leonard Cohen, Bowie (who covered "Amsterdam" shortly thereafter), and Sinatra, and it may even be responsible for one-hit wonder Terry Jacks's revival of "Seasons in the Sun". More important, the pioneering musical-without-a-book helped introduce Brel's oft-brooding, ever evocative art to a wider American audience--and
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Manufacturer: Columbia / Sony
Release date: 28 May 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0696998999824 UPC: 069699899982
Release date: 28 May 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0696998999824 UPC: 069699899982
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