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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jacques Brel was one of the great representatives of French chanson in the post-World War II period. Born into a bourgeois family, Brel rejected the future awaiting him in his father’s cardboard ...

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 ...