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Via a Metafilter commenter , the definitive version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
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Via a Metafilter commenter , the definitive version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
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Hollywood was nice, but Coachella would not wait. So after a nice breakfast with our little crew (now numbering 14 people), and after a side trip back to LAX to pick up my luggage, it was off to the desert to experience the joy of Coachella.The challenge of being with a group that large is trying to catch a show with as many people as possible. That wouldn't be a problem except for a certain pa...
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For the first time in nearly 15 years Leonard Cohen will launch a major tour spanning most of North America and portions of Europe, reports "MOJO":CH. The jaunt will support an upcoming album from the legendary singer-songwriter which is scheduled to be released later this year. Details have yet to be given while a spokesperson for the artist stated more information will be outlined in Febru...
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Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen has scheduled nearly 40 European performances this Summer. The tour, the first for the 73-year-old in nearly 15 years, will not include any dates in the United States. "As previously reported":PR, Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (March 10) for his status among the "highest and most influential echelon of songwrit...
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Leonard Cohen, everyone's favorite depressive genius, will be releasing a new biography December 1. Hallelujah will be written by Tim Footman, author of Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer And The Death of the Classic Album. The book tells of Cohen's “years growing up in Quebec in a middle class Jewish family, through a decade as a budding poet and author — following the publication of his fir
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Thank god Leonard Cohen is back on top, because otherwise we may never have gotten to hear this incredible show.With Leonard Cohen's star in the ascendant after the Came So Far For Beauty concerts, the Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man documentary, the remastered early albums, his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, more than a year of well-received and artistically successful shows, and t...
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"You came to me this morningAnd you handled me like meat.You´d have to live alone to knowHow good that feels, how sweet.My mirror twin, my next of kin, I´d know you in my sleep. And who but you would take me in A thousand kisses deep? I loved you when you opened Like a lily to the heat. I´m just another snowman Standing in the rain and sleet, Who loved you with his frozen love His second-han
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This year marked the first time Leonard Cohen hit the road in almost fifteen years. Despite being well into his seventies, Cohen seems to be loving the feeling of the wind rushing through his hair as he's extended his summer jaunt way into the 2008 fall and winter. Cohen and his baritone will hit only Europe, but who says you can't plan yourself a nice getaway centered around Mr. Cohen's music....
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You may have thought that Leonard Cohen’s world tour had ended after his onstage collapse and brief trip to the hospital in Spain recently, but not only has the poet/singer/legend hopped back into the spotlight, he’s also unveiling a few new songs...
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My review of Leonard Cohen's Live in London can be found (click here) on treblezine.comLeonard CohenLive in LondonColumbia2009I remember standing in the darkness of Tower Records in Lincoln Park, Chicago. We were about to close and walk out the door about four years ago, and I had just read the news that Leonard Cohen was coming out of retirement. Cohen was suing his accountant for embezzling h...
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What an inspired project! This is exactly the thing that artists should be doing for themselves and their fans. And the fact that Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Leonard Cohen was chosen on the heels of Velvet Underground & Nico says a lot about the minds at work here (they have good taste). Here’s what Beck or whoever writes for the Beck’s Record Club section of the website had to say about album
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While Laughing Len plays the elder statesmen of the broken hearted to a tee, cheesy arrangements and OTT sax solos make Live In London a nice memory, but an inessential addition to his live back catalog for those not there in the flesh.
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"And you know that she's half crazy,but that's why you want to be there."Suzanne ~ Leonard CohenNearly everything I've ever written, be it a short story, or a novel in progress (one day I'll finish one of them, I am determined), has had a character inspired by one of Leonard Cohen's songs. He is a muse of mine, and I do not remember a time in my life that I was not touched in some way by his mu...
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I don't often buy souvenirs at concerts, but after Leonard Cohen's concert in Montreal the other night, I joined the crush of people around the merch stand and paid for a tote bag. It's black, has an interlocking-locking hearts logo, and on one side a fragment of the lyric from "Anthem," one of the show's highlights:Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crac...
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Something special for you today, Leonard Cohen reciting the lyrics to Sound of Silence in a tribute to Paul Simon.His elloquent rendition reminds me of a poem that Cohen wrote about silence, one of my favorites:Poem ("I heard of a man ...") from "Let Us Compare Mythologies"I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am...
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