Paris - The handwritten lyrics to one of singer Jacques Brel's most melancholic songs, Amsterdam, fetched more than €108 000 (R1.3m) at a Paris auction on Wednesday. The text scribbled on a school notebook was one of 95 lots up for grabs at a Sotheby's sale held 30 years after Brel's death and despite protests from his family. The records, old photographs, guitars and other items that once belonged to the Belgian-born singer were from the private collection of an anomymous seller. Reports said they were recovered from the Riviera home Brel shared with Sylvie Riget, one of his many mistresses, and were split between her nieces and nephews following her...
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