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Rate Leonard Cohen&#39s Superb 1985 Performance Of Coming Back To You

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Wed, Jul 1

By DrHGuy Outstanding 1985 Video From Ray Martin Show This impressive rendition of “Coming Back To You” from the Various Positions album features Leonard Cohen and his band, including  Anjani on piano, performing in Australia on the 24 May 1985  Midday Show with Ray Martin. The strikingly vivid 2...

Rate "Cold Hard Truth" Is On Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, Jun 30

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox: In interviews through the years, Leonard Cohen has mentioned a handful of specific songs he favors. Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox is a Heck Of A Guy feature playing those tunes for your edification and entertainment. Leonard Cohen On George Jones – "Best voice in Ameri...

Rate Where Leonard Cohen Got That Hat

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, Jun 23

By DrHGuy It Must Be The Hat A question posed on LeonardCohenForum about the type of fedora Leonard Cohen has worn throughout the current World Tour triggered this reply from Hollywood Hatters1 To answer your questions in regards to where and what is the hat that Leonard has been wearing, it is in fa...

Past Month

 

Rate 10 Years Ago – Leonard Cohen Comes Down From The Mountain

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Thu, Jun 18

By DrHGuy Tom Sakic1 notes in a LeonardCohenForum entry that ten years ago (Spring 1999) Leonard Cohen ended his stay at the Mount Baldy Zen monastery. First song he made was Villanelle For Our Time, a jazz improvisation on FR Scott’s poem, with Anjani, on May 6, 1999 . In June he published this drawing...

Rate Best Bootlegs: Leonard Cohen Live At The BBC

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, Jun 16

By DrHGuy Because I may not know music, but I know what you should like … and where to find it1 Leonard Cohen – Recorded Live At The BBC 1968 These tracks are high quality audio recordings2 of Leonard Cohen’s 1968 appearance on BBC-TV.3 As the blurb on this site puts it, These well-preserved sessions at...

Rate Leonard Cohen's Do I Have To Dance All Night (1980 Version) Video Reference Key

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Mon, Jun 8

By DrHGuy Do I Have To Dance All Night (1980 Version) Video Sources Leonard Cohen - Do I Have To Dance All Night (1980 - Amsterdam Concert) Since uploading the video I put together for the 1980 version of “Do I Have To Dance All Night” to YouTube, I’ve received many questions about the origins of specif...

May of 2009

 

Rate This Is New York, Cohen, We Know When You’re Faking It - And Your Intermission Is Interminable

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, May 19

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen Reviews Reviewed That most of the reviews of Leonard Cohen’s concerts during the current World Tour have been composed of  similar background facts, observations about the performance, and subjective responses on the part of the audience and reviewer as well as being en...

Rate Leonard Cohen Gives Crowd Its Money's Worth

Original at Washington Post external link    Tue, May 12

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Even so, Cohen proved determined to give the reverent crowd value for its hard-earned money, and he appeared genuinely humbled by the standing ovations that erupted after "Waiting for the Miracle," "Hallelujah" and too many other performances to name. ...

Rate Leonard Cohen revels in a victory lap in Chicago show

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Thu, May 7

By Greg Kot | Tribune critic "Love is not some kind of victory march," Leonard Cohen intoned Tuesday while performing his classic song "Hallelujah." But for Cohen, who has been away from the touring circuit since 1993, his first of two sold-out ...

Rate Opinion: Leonard Cohen at the Chicago Theatre

Original at Chicago Sun-Times external link    Tue, May 5

But the poignant beauty of the songs simply couldn't be denied as one classic followed another, rife with grand Biblical allusions and gritty barroom epiphanies: "Bird on the Wire," "Suzanne," "Chelsea Hotel" and "Hallelujah"--most of all "Hallelujah," ...

Rate The 5 best versions of Cohen's 'Hallelujah'

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Sun, May 3

 United States Leonard Cohen, from "Live in London" (2009): At 74, Cohen is singing his own song better than ever, and this reading from last year's comeback tour brims with baritone authority and poignancy. kd lang, from "Hymns of the 49th Parallel" (2004): She ...

Rate Live in London

Original at Malaysia Star external link    Sat, May 2

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 Malaysia LET'S get one thing straight: Leonard Cohen is a songwriting genius. Like Bob Dylan, however, Cohen isn't blessed with the gift of a golden voice (despite what he jokingly tells us in Tower of Song) and in fact there are occasions when the best ...

Rate Opinion: Music: Better than Leonard Cohen?

Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune external link    Thu, Apr 30

By JON BREAM, Star Tribune Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leonard Cohen's songs are better known than he is. Starting with Judy Collins in 1966 ("Suzanne"), they've been covered more than 1500 times by other singers, whose versions often became more ...

April of 2009

 

Rate Concert review | Troubadour Leonard Cohen delivers masterful WaMu show

Original at Seattle Times external link    Fri, Apr 24

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It was folkie diva Judy Collins who first popularized Cohen's songs ("Suzanne," "Famous Blue Raincoat") in the US And when Cohen's debut album appeared in 1967, many listeners preferred Collins' prettier treatments of his tunes to his own craggy-voiced ... Leonard Cohen Observer Online

Rate Coachella 2009 Complete Review

Original at EntertainmentToday.net external link    Fri, Apr 24

 CA Leonard Cohen - easily the best dressed band of the weekend. Fedoras, dark suits and a Continental panache. The fit 74 year old Cohen released his first album 42 years ago. His rich baritone was counterbalanced by the buttery harmonies of his female ...

Rate Backstage: Rufus Wainwright

Original at Yale Daily News external link    Fri, Apr 24

 CT QYou reached a lot of new listeners by covering “Hallelujah” for one of the Shrek movies. Although it was first done by Leonard Cohen, your song sounds more like a cover of the late Jeff Buckley's version. I was wondering how you see yourself in terms ...

Rate Opinion: Perspective & The Leonard Cohen Oakland Concert

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Fri, Apr 17

By DrHGuy Putting Cohen In Context A  review of the April 13, 2009 Oakland concert, Leonard Cohen’s Perfect Offering by Gary Kamiya,  is online at Salon.com It’s an interesting perspective, placing this show in the context of past tours and focusing not only on the performance but also on the notio...

Rate Music review: Leonard Cohen's graceful gift

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    Tue, Apr 14    4 related articles

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San Francisco Bay Guardian   USA He treated the audience to a luxurious two-hour tour through some of the many high points of his career - from ample selections from his 1988 masterpiece album, "I'm Your Man," to "Suzanne" and "So Long Marianne" from his earliest albums. ...

Rate Opinion: Leonard Cohen In The Eyes Of Texas

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, Apr 7

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By DrHGuy from Julie's StoryNo Leonard Cohen Cowboy Hat Trick YetOK, Make That Leonard Cohen, His Famous Blue Raincoat, And His Cowboy Hat In DallasLeonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep In The Heart Of Texas_____________________In adherence to the Great minds - Same direction bromide, a comme...

Rate How To: Hallelujah Acoustic Guitar Lesson - Leonard CohenVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Apr 5

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By rss@youtube.com (educationalmaterials) None Author: educationalmaterials Keywords: hallelujah acoustic guitar lesson leonard cohen rufus wainwright john cale jeff buckley how to play learn lyrics chords Added: April 5, 2009

Rate Concert Review: Leonard Cohen at Nokia Theatre (April 3)

Original at Pegasus News external link    Sat, Apr 4

 TX Suzanne" and "Boogie Streets" were among them, the latter he explained, was co-written by backup vocalist and producer Sharon Robinson. During each number, Cohen’s eyes were closed and his fists clenched, often bending on one knee. ...

Rate Opinion: Leonard Cohen to bring live tour to Europe

Original at Just the Flight external link    Fri, Apr 3

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Following his initial success in the early 1960s and 1970s, the singer gained a new audience almost three decades later, thanks largely to cover versions of his best-known song Hallelujah. Alongside the Jeff Buckley version, the song has also been used ...

Rate Review: Leonard Cohen, night 1 at the Long Center

Original at Austin 360 external link    Thu, Apr 2

 TX “Hallelujah” drew a standing ovation in the second set. Cohen’s spoken word rendition of “Recitation with NL”, poetry set to quavering synthesized keyboards, was a dramatic highpoint in the second set. There was a huge communal sigh in the house - more ...

March of 2009

 

Rate Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah In Zack Snyder’s Watchmen - Bizarre, Sublime, Nuked The Fridge?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Mon, Mar 9

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By DrHGuy More Bipolarity In response to the emails about yesterday’s post, Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah - Mood Music For Watchmen SuperHeroic Sex Scene, I am offering a few more opinions about the use of Cohen’s Hallelujah as the musical setting for a sex scene between two of the superheroes, Nite...

Rate Opinion: Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah - Mood Music For Watchmen SuperHeroic Sex Scene

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Sun, Mar 8

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By DrHGuy Let's go to my place and listen to some Leonard Cohen. The music choices are moldy (please save me from hearing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in a film again) Stephen Whitty, The Star-Ledger I liked the music most of the time, but the Leonard Cohen lovemaking didn’t work for me.

Rate Film review: ‘Watchmen’ winds down slowly

Original at Charlottesville Daily Progress external link    Thu, Mar 5

 VA The next love scene—same two lovers, but real this time—takes place on a hovering spacecraft thing in front of a full moon, with Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” blaring on the soundtrack. Really. If the music seems to be heavy-handed (“Ride of the ...

Rate Movie Review: Watchmen (2009)

Original at RopeofSilicon.com external link    Thu, Mar 5

 WA The musical cues are corny, loud and entirely out of place as they make way for their climax as Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” plays over what may be the worst sex scene ever filmed. Watchmen is a fanboy’s true fantasy as characters from their favorite ...

Rate Watchmen, review

Original at Telegraph.co.uk external link    Thu, Mar 5

 United Kingdom There are lighter touches: Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is heard during a deliberately overripe sex scene between Clark Kent and Lois Lane – er, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre. But Snyder, who walked the thin line between camp and psychotic so adroitly in 300 ...

February of 2009

 

Rate LA Times Next At Leonard Cohen Interview-a-thon

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Fri, Feb 27

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By DrHGuy … he (Leonard Cohen] was ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk so he might serve in an austere setting as the personal attendant to his teacher, Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi. And, that segues into Cohen’s This LA Times interview can be found at Leonard Cohen reborn in the U.S.A..

Rate Yet Another Rare Leonard Cohen Interview

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Fri, Feb 27

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By DrHGuy Readers who viewed this page also viewedThe Leonard Cohen New York Times InterviewThe Half-Sister Of Mercy, Leonard Cohen, & Me - Part 2Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell: Just One Of Those ThingsLeonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - The Joys and Frustrations Of A Tribute Concert-Documentar...

Rate Philip Glass performs Leonard Cohen

Original at Press-Enterprise external link    Tue, Feb 24

 CA A native of Canada, Cohen is a published poet and novelist but is best known as a singer/songwriter, composing "Suzanne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye." He withdrew from performing in the mid-1990s and spent five years in a Mount Baldy ...

December of 2008

 

Rate Behind the music: New year special

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    Tue, Dec 30

By Helienne Lindvall A tumultuous year is ending on a high note for the UK music industry – in particular for Simon Cowell and Leonard Cohen, who have ended it with a great big record-breaking Hallelujah. We also saw the launch of UK Music, whose primary goal is to get the labels, publishers and music creators to s...

Rate Leonard Cohen Rules British Music Charts

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Dec 22

By The Huffington Post News Editors Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" made British chart history Sunday when it became both number one and number two in the Christmas singles charts -- although both versions were covers. But in what appeared to be a protest at the manufactured music industry, fans of US musician Jeff Buckl...

Rate Hallelujah: X Factor winner Burke heads for UK Christmas No 1

Original at The Guardian (UK) external link    Sun, Dec 21

By Sam Jones Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV, said: "It's ironic, to say the least, that it's taken a mass audience populist show like The X Factor to prompt massive interest in the highly individualist music of Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley, and their album sales at HMV are up as well."

November of 2008

 

Rate Final Uncut Leonard Cohen Interview

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, Nov 25

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By DrHGuy This is the seventh and final Uncut magazine interview with individuals connected with the 2008 Leonard Cohen Tour.  The first five (Sharon Robinson, Javier Mas, Leif Bodnarchuk, Bruce Rodgers, and Charley and Hattie Webb) were discussed in Uncut Leonard Cohen Tour Troop Interviews a...

Rate Opinion: Leonard Cohen's live show at The 02, Greenwich, exceeds expectations

Original at News Shopper external link    Tue, Nov 18

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Rate Il Divo Sings Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah In SpanishVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Mon, Nov 17

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By DrHGuy Simon Cowell While watching the Il Divo video, check out the similarity between the setting of this Hallelujah video by Il Divo … … and the background of the most popular of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah videos. Hallelujah - Il Divo Lyrics: Il DIvo’s Spanish Rendition Of Hallelujah

Rate Opinion: Why Is Leonard Cohen Smiling - And Who's Lenny?

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Sat, Nov 15

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By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen at O2 … what started with a successful summer tour and a much-lauded appearance at the Glastonbury Festival has turned into Lenny-mania this winter I do not. And I certainly do not think of Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen at O2

Rate Leonard Cohen On CBC - Tuning In From The USVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Mon, Nov 10

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By DrHGuy and revel the The Leonard Cohen CBC Interviews. As I pointed out in that post, The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has conveniently packaged a series of performances by and interviews with Leonard Cohen from their TV and radio archives under the title, Leonard Cohen: Canada’s M...

Rate Everybody Knows - A Very Special Leonard Cohen Episode On CBC TVVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Sat, Nov 8

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows The event was a doubly special one for Adam Cohen, who also happens to be Leonard’s son. It marked his first time onstage performing his father’s music. Clips From CBC’s Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows

Rate Democracy Is Coming To The USA - Leonard CohenVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Mon, Nov 3

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By DrHGuy While it is not precisely on point for today’s post, an interview with Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles 1992, from Songwriters On Songwriting by Paul Zollo, is an enlightening and enchanting look at the process by which Leonard Cohen creates a song. “Democracy” is used extensiv...

Rate BBC Nov 1 Documentary On Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah Available Next 7 DaysVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Sun, Nov 2

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By DrHGuy Footnotes This link is also available in the Hallelujah announcement in the right sidebarYep, Leonard Cohen played a role in Miami Vice. See Item #9 of Ten Items About Leonard Cohen and, for the real (fake) story, Item #8 of 10 Unbelievable Secrets About Leonard Cohen Bookmark It

October of 2008

 

Rate Opinion: Leonard Cohen Wedding Music: "I Do"

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Mon, Oct 27

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By DrHGuy Now, Leonard Cohen’s music has graced many nuptial events. Typically, however, the songs from his discography most frequently heard in this context have been “Take This Waltz,” “Dance Me To The End Of Love,” The Marriage March” (from Night Music), “Hallelujah,” and, less often, “I’m Yo...

Rate Opinion: ilCorSaRoNeRo.info - Leonard Cohen - More Best Of (FLAC) - torrent ...

Original at ilCorSaRoNeRo external link    Sat, Oct 25

10 - Suzanne 11 - Hallelujah 12 - Never Any Good 13 - The Great Event Review: Canadian poet Leonard Cohen sings with great weight and authority and his lyrics are among the most elegant and scripted of the rock era. ...

Rate The Jeffrey Lewis - Leonard Cohen Connection MythVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Thu, Oct 23

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By DrHGuy Jeffrey Lewis has not covered a Leonard Cohen song, he has not collaborated with Leonard Cohen, he has not performed with Leonard Cohen, and, as far as I can determine, he has not been involved in a romantic liaison with Leonard Cohen. He has never even claimed to have a special interest in Le...

Rate Opinion: The Marissa Nadler Video Of Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue RaincoatVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, Oct 7

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By DrHGuy Marissa Nadler Nadler Shrouds Famous Blue Raincoat In Velvet Film Artifacts Marissa Nadler - Famous Blue Raincoat from Greg Eggebeen on Vimeo. For comparison, this is Marissa Nadler peforming Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat agt Sneaky Dee’s (Toronto, 7 June 2007)

Year 2008

 

Rate Opinion: 10 Most Viewed Posts Countdown Continues

Original at Heck Of A Guy external link    Tue, Sep 30

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By DrHGuy Rare Leonard Cohen Chelsea Hotel #1 Video was a fortuitous find. I ran across a YouTube video of this early version of the much better known “Chelsea Hotel #2″ when it had been viewed only 124 times. Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #1 Click here to view the embedded video.

Year 2007

 

Rate 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Announced: Madonna, Beastie Boys, More

Original at Rolling Stone external link    Thu, Sep 27

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By Rolling Stone With the 1966 release of In My Life by Judy Collins, containing Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and “Dress Rehearsal Rag,” Cohen became a folk rock icon of the singer songwriter movement. Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in his native Canada, Cohen moved to New York in 1967 and released hi...

Rate Music Review: Anjani - Blue Alert (CD/DVD)

Original at Blogcritics external link    Wed, Jul 11

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By Donald Gibson A graduate of the University of South Florida with a B.A. in English, Donald Gibson writes about the concerts he attends, the music he listens to, and the artists he appreciates. Among the best concerts he has attended include Tom Waits, David Bowie, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, N...

Rate Movie Review: Leonard Cohen Under Review 1934-1977

Original at Blogcritics external link    Wed, Mar 28

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By Richard Marcus In the world of popular music there are few figures as enigmatic as Leonard Cohen. The Canadian singer/songwriter/poet/novelist/ has been a figure of both controversy and mystery in the musical and literary circles he moves in. His mystique is such that even his backup singer of recent ye...

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