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Who’s the Best – Brel or Bowie? Posted by Hichem on Aug 24, 2011
Maybe this will sound like somewhat of a rhetorical question to some of you, but laquelle des deux versions préférez-vous (which one of the two versions do you prefer): The Jacques Brel or the David Bowie version? Of course, Jacques Brel is far from being un étranger (a stranger) to The French Blog! (See for example the still “hot topic”…
Closing the Semaine: Jacques Brel with Zangra Posted by Hichem on Apr 4, 2011
Jacques Brel’s “Zangra” (compared in detail in a previous post with Gaddafi‘s “Zenga Zenga“) brings “la semaine Brel” to an official close! * * * JACQUES BREL — “ZANGRA” Je m’appelle Zangra et je suis lieutenant My name is Zangra and I am a lieutenant Au fort de Belonzio qui domine la plaine At the Belonzio…
Jacques Brel vs. Colonel Gaddafi: Zangra Meets Zenga Zenga Posted by Hichem on Mar 31, 2011
IF someone told you that Colonel Gaddafi‘s life-long vocation as a deeply confused dictateur (dictator) traced back its origin to the military career of a World War II fascist foot soldier, whose mission was to resume the century-old Italian occupation of la Lybie, you probably would wonder how that could be the case. But what if, in…