Leonard Cohen
A community portal about Leonard Cohen with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Leonard Norman Cohen, CC is a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. Cohen began his career in literature, publishing his first... [more]
A community portal about Leonard Cohen with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Leonard Norman Cohen, CC is a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. Cohen began his career in literature, publishing his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. Following his breakthrough in the music industry in the late 1960s, Cohen became one of the most distinguished and influential songwriters of the late twentieth century.
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As you may have noticed, this blog has been rather quiet of late. I blame a combination of blogger apathy and a careless loss of control over my work/life balance. In this equation, I count writing as life, and the day job which pays the mortgage, as work. So, I've been waiting for something special to get me writing again, and last night, at the O2, that something special happened.The last time I saw Leonard Cohen on stage was when he took a hysterically applauded bow at the end of Philip...
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1) What comes first, the music or the lyrics? 2) Are Song Lyrics Poetry? All art aspires to the state of music. May be a cliché, but it’s the truth. And, in the 1940s, before I wrote or published anything, I’d make up songs, awful, by any standard, awful. But songs… and am fascinated by the connection between music, songwriting in particular, and poetry. I interviewed poet-singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen years ago for CBC Radio and was especially interested to hear what he had to say...
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. Let judges secretly...
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…You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own prominence, after you run through them for a number of years, they cease to have charge. They bore themselves into non-existence. You see them as diversions from another kind of intimacy that you become more...
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It may well go down as one of the best gigs ever in Dublin. The sound was excellent, Leonard's voice was much better than expected, the backing band was very tight and the atmosphere in the crowd was fantastic throughout. Here is a clip taken by a fan which will give you some idea of what it was like... ===============
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By Benjamin Leatherman
Much like the mythical bird from which our ‘burg draws its name, popular record store Hoodlums has risen – quite literally – from the ashes. As Steve Jansen wrote in this week’s issue, the music emporium’s former location on the ASU campus was gutted by a tragic fire late...
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Crowe contributes her cover of "Joan of Arc" - a favourite first heard on the 1971 Cohen album "Songs of Love and Hate". It's been a wonderful year for appreciation of poet and songwriter+ Leonard Cohen - ...
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Marissa Nadler's haunting Songs III: Bird on the Water came out some time ago, but the videos keep on coming. Perhaps because Nadler's goth-folk lends itself well to moving images, she has no shortage of directors willing to work with her. This clip for the album's cover of Leonard Cohen's...
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In 1984 Leonard Cohen was sitting in a hotel room in New York, banging his head on the floor in desperate frustration, struggling through verse after verse (a rumored 80 or so) for his now-infamous song "Hallelujah." Those verses were filled with numerous Biblical references, including one of...
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The Canwest Cabaret is a three day festival taking place at Toronto's Young Centre. Among other events, the Cabaret invites a diverse selection of performers to interpret the songbooks of Leonard Cohen, Kurt Weill and Duke Ellington. Here, Andrew Whiteman (Apostle of Hustle, Broken Social Scene...
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... house band's vamping patiently as she rummaged through lyric sheets, asked for her reading glasses, and apologized to Cohen, who wasn't in attendance), ...
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Some ten thousand people spent more than three hours facing cold and rain on a Bucharest stadium on Sunday evening, completely tamed by the voice of Leonard Cohen in a gig that is unlike any the Romanian had seen in a long time. The Cohen concert comes at the end of a long weekend of cultural...
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This documentary examines how and why Cohen's latter day music rivals among the finest in his entire canon.
Between 1978 and 2006, Leonard Cohen produced a body of music that rivals among the finest in his entire canon. Also in this era, he saw his popularity grow exponentially as his albums...
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Leonard Cohen - "Sisters of Mercy" Share This Spotlight No Trackbacks To "Late Night Music Club with Leonard Cohen" 26 Responses for "Late Night Music Club with Leonard Cohen" Billy Hussein Pilgram Says: Cohen ...
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... fringe artist with a cult following, Cohen evolved into a full-fledged (if not most-unlikely) pop star. Leonard Cohen Under Review 1978 – 2006 examines this era of the legend’s music, ...
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