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- He retired from music for five years, instead focusing on writing and acting. In 1973, his film “Le Far West” was nominated for the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Brel’s final years were devoted to sailing his boat, Askoy II. Brel learned that he had lung cancer in October 1974, after a visit to a clinic in the Canary Islands.
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Jacques Romain Georges Brel (French: [ʒɑk ʁɔmɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ bʁɛl] ⓘ; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world.
Oct 5, 2024 · Brel announced his retirement from performing in 1966, with his final performance the following year, and he also released the album Jacques Brel 67. His next, and final, album, Les Marquises (1977), was rapturously received. A statue of Brel singing was unveiled in Brussels in 2017.
- Patricia Bauer
Nov 7, 2017 · After securing a plot of land in the Polynesian paradise he’d sequestered himself in for much of the 70s, it was ultimately the reason he came out of retirement to record Les Marquises in 1977, a record that would prove to be his last.
Sotheby's Paris will today auction 94 objects which once belonged to the Belgian singer, song-writer and actor Jacques Brel, including a fountain pen, pipe, and manuscripts of his best-known...
- John Lichfield
Oct 15, 1978 · Jacques Brel talked a lot about death. Next week, they will bury him in the tiny cemetery of Atuana in the South Pacific, only a few yards from the grave of the great French painter Paul...
- Pierre Salinger
Mar 17, 2023 · On October 9, 1978, France woke up to some sad news: singer-songwriter Jacques Brel had died of a pulmonary embolism at a hospital near Paris. His cancer had been common knowledge for years, but the whole nation went into shock.
Apr 5, 2020 · Though he passed away prematurely, in October 1978, aged just 49, Brel’s posthumous reputation has grown in stature and he is now revered the world over, his albums have sold in excess of 25...
