"So tell me if you can," Marc Almond sang in 1993, "what makes a man a man?" Almond, most famous for the hit "Tainted Love" with his old band Soft Cell, did not write that challenge; Charles Aznavour ...

Singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour would have turned 100 on Wednesday. A giant of chanson française, the French-Armenian artist behind “La Bohème” and “She” left a lasting mark on music in France.

"I don't express myself particularly well when I talk, but when I write, words, melodies flow," Charles Aznavour told The Telegraph in 2001. "Their pathway is from brain to pen." Over the years, he ...