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Singer and songwriter Jacques Brel says goodbye on stage at the Olympia in Paris on January 1, 1966. This is his last concert before his retirement from the music business. Born in Brussels in 1929, Brel died of complications from lung cancer in 1978. (Photo by Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

Singer and songwriter Jacques Brel says goodbye on stage at the Olympia in Paris on January 1, 1966. This is his last concert before his retirement from the music business. Born in Brussels in 1929, Brel died of complications from lung cancer in 1978. (Photo by Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)