'Fraid so, it made No1 in the hit parade (Gad, I'm old) for several weeks begining April 1974, personally I loathe and detest the song with all the feeling I can muster, because it was my brother doing the dying - drunk hit and run, brother didn't stand a chance. Art imitated life a bit too closely there for my liking.... Everyone at school kept singing it when I got back , and generally made things miserable and worse.

Feel a little better about it now though, as I've been a psuedo fan of Jaques Brel, ever since I heard some of his stuff done by Jake Thackary. I say psuedo because my French is even worse than my Serbo-Croat!

LTS