How I used to groan whenever Terry Jacks's Seasons in the Sun was played on Top of the Tops. (It seemed to be a fixture there for weeks on end, although I'm not sure that Jacks ever showed his face. Did the producers let Pan's People loose on it instead? There's a thought.) If I'd known I was really listening to an adaptation of Jacques Brel's Le Moribond (The Dying Man), I could have earned myself extra marks in my French class. His version is that little bit sharper - and bleaker.
Wikipedia fills in some of the background.
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