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A good artist Brel and a bit of a troll avant-le-lettre as a person. Coming from a rich West Flemish bourgeois family that raised their kids in French only, he often claimed to be a Fleming himself not without being a douche-bag toward Dutch-speakers. Often he wasn't even joking. He's a product of a different time though, so when he called Flanders (I prefer 'Flemish Region', but that didn't exist back then) a backward region held back by the Catholic Church, he was telling the truth I guess (not true for Antwerp though, but I guess it is for West Flanders).
I think it's the Belgian disease, failure to communicate out of sheer stubbornness and resulting in a pissing contest. He wasn't a bad person regardless and indeed a great artist. He's honoured as such also here in the Dutch-speaking North. I have heard him a bit too often to be a fan of his nowadays, but I have albums of his nonetheless.
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