LoginScott Walker Sings Jacques Brel
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The nine songs collected here all made their first appearances in the late 1960s on Scott Walker's first three solo albums. In these contexts, Walker's readings of Jacques Brel's songs loomed as rather obvious signposts on the route Walker was trying to negotiate--the always treacherous path from teen idol to serious artist. Here, however, they hang together well as a discrete collection of sympathetic and often glorious interpretations of a great songwriter by a great singer. The Belgian-born Brel flourished in the Paris of the 1960s. His songs were strange, sordid little narratives populated with dissolute characters--the drun
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Manufacturer: Spectrum
Release date: 16 May 1995
EAN: 0004228382122 UPC: 042283821224
Release date: 16 May 1995
EAN: 0004228382122 UPC: 042283821224
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