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Jacques Brel

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Moi, je t'offrirai des perles de pluie venues de pays où il ne pleut pas

Ne me quitte pas est une chanson de Jacques Brel sur la rupture amoureuse, écrite et composée avec son pianiste Gérard Jouannest et enregistrée par Brel en 1959.  

La chanson est écrite après la séparation de Brel et de sa maîtresse Suzanne Gabriello dont il était amoureux depuis 1955 mais qui mit fin à leur relation. 

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Place dans les classements

En novembre 1999, l'institut CSA réalise un sondage pour Le Parisien et La Cinquième dans lequel 31 % des personnes interrogées considèrent Ne me quitte pas comme la meilleure chanson du XX^e siècle. En mai 2015, selon un sondage BVA, elle est désignée deuxième chanson préférée des Français derrière Mistral gagnant de Renaud et devant L'Aigle noir de Barbara. Trois ans plus tard, Ne me quitte pas retrouve la première place (qu'elle a longtemps occupée), selon un sondage du site Riffx; cette position est confirmée en 2020 par Thomas Pawlowski dans son livre Les 1 000 Chansons préférées des Français. 

"Ne me quitte pas" ("Don't leave me") is a 1959 French song by the Belgian chansonnier (singer-songwriter) Jacques Brel.

It has been covered in the original French by many artists and has also been translated into and performed in many other languages.  🇬🇧/🇺🇸/🇨🇦   🇮🇹   🇪🇸   🇬🇷   🇩🇪   🇵🇱   🇵🇹/🇧🇷   🇹🇷

A well-known adaptation, with English lyrics by Rod McKuen, is "If You Go Away".

"Ne me quitte pas" is considered by some as "Brel's ultimate classic". It was written after Brel's mistress "Zizou" (Suzanne Gabriello) threw him out of her life. 

Brel first recorded the song on 11 September 1959, and it was released on his fourth album La Valse à mille temps.  In 1961 a Dutch-language version sung by Brel was released on the Philips label; entitled "Laat me niet alleen", with lyrics by Ernst van Altena, it was a B-side to Marieke (also a Dutch-language version). Brel recorded "Ne me quitte pas" again as the title track of his 1972 album.

In a 1966 interview, Brel said that "Ne me quitte pas" was not a love song, but rather "a hymn to the cowardice of men", and the degree to which they were willing to humiliate themselves.

The lyrics "Moi, je t'offrirai des perles de pluie venues de pays où il ne pleut pas" ("I'll offer you rain pearls from lands where it does not rain") are sung to a theme borrowed from the second part, Lassan (Andante), of the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 by the composer Franz Liszt.

In popular culture

The song was used in season 1 episode 19 of the critically acclaimed TV show Person of Interest and in the final episode of Mr. Robot. It was also used in season 1 finale of The Leftovers. "Ne Me Quitte Pas" was used by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar in his sixth film, Law of Desire, in a striking performance by Brazilian singer Maysa Matarazzo.