When the Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel had his American debut at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 4, 1965, his passionate lyrics and soulful delivery — by turns funny, poetic, heartbreaking, bitter, ...

Tainted Love, a unique treatment of Gloria Jones’ Northern Soul classic from 1964, turned Marc Almond and his partner Dave Ball into superstars in the early 1980s. Soft Cell, a duo from Leeds, ...

Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry takes us through some of the tracks that have influenced his life and art. The playlist includes David Bowie, The Dixie Chicks, Jacques Brel, Radiohead, Reba ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Jacques Brel was born into a bourgeois Belgian family in 1929, but as he grew up he came to loathe what he called the ...

The 30th anniversary of the death of the greatest popular singer in the French language has generated an avalanche of tributes this week – and an unseemly legal row. Sotheby's Paris will today auction ...