Artist: Maurice Ravel
Author: Maurice Ravel
Year: 1931
Covers:
Jacques Brel [inspired the tune of Les Désespérés]
Besides, Les Désespérés was covered by Ellen Storm, Mort Shuman, Shawn Elliott & Alice Whitfield in musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris as The Desperate Ones ('68), also by Nina Simone ('69) (idem), Liesbeth List ('69) as De Radelozen, Stef Bos ('97) as De Laatste Trein, Gisela May ('98) as Die Chancelozen, Marc Almond ('08) as The Desperate Ones), Wende ('08) and Christina Branco ('11).
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Arnold Rypens
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