Leonard Cohen

By DrHGuy Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long stem rose Everybody knows From “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen The Nashville Production Of “The Rose” – In Two Acts Act I From bridger15 posting at LeonardCohenForum, Everybody Knows: At 1.25, LC picks u...

By DrHGuy Albert Noonan and His Contribution To Cohen World While his exploits and expertise in recording the performances of Leonard Cohen on video have been ongoing and well documented,1 Albert Noonan, in capturing the Video Of New Leonard Cohen Song From The Chicago Concert and uploading it w...

By DrHGuy Not The Same Old Song The Leonard Cohen Chicago concert  last night was  another great performance in the chain of successes that has characterized the World Tour. Oh, and Leonard Cohen playing “that other blues song”1 of his for the first time in concert was nice too. “That other blues song...

By DrHGuy Outstanding Video Of “First We Take Manhattan” And More My only criticisms of these two videos from the October 23, 2009 Leonard Cohen concert at Madison Square Garden are (1) timing: only portions of “So Long, Marianne” and “Hallelujah” are captured and “First We Take Manhattan” ends a...

By DrHGuy The Leonard Cohen Merchandise Problem From emails sent to Heck Of A Guy and posts at LeonardCohenForum, it is evident that selling Cohen-associated jackets, caps, jewelry, and other accessories has not been the World Tour’s greatest strength. Complaints about availability of goods,...

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By DrHGuy The Leonard Cohen Post-Financial Loss, Pre-World Tour Interview, 2006 Montreal Norwegian TV Version Those who have read or viewed other Leonard Cohen interviews of this period will notice they have certain elements in common with this 2006 video done for Norwegian TV in Cohen’s Montr...

By DrHGuy The Interview: Great Content, Poor Video, & Valerie Pringle This 1997 CTV interview with Leonard Cohen is much debated among fans, many of whom argue that the interviewer, Valerie Pringle, a well known personalty in Canadian TV broadcasting, is ill informed about Cohen while oth...

By melophobe 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...

By DrHGuy Props For I’m Your Man From Heck Of A Guy Agent, Christine Geyer ... it’s now 3.12 in the morning and I just came back from the [Leonard Cohen Colmar] concert. I’m dead tired but happy – it was sooooo amazing! A more detailed report will follow after a few hours sleep. But I just HAVE to tell [...]

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...

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 ...

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," ...

 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 ...

 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 ...

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 ...

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

 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 ...

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...

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. ...

The audience, many of whom may have never seen him before, responded warmly to every song, showing special fervor for the most familiar, such as "Hallelujah," and the most anthemic, such as "Democracy" and, of course, "Anthem. ... Leonard Cohen Works For A Living Huffington Post

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...

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 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. ...

 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 ...

 AZ As one of the most influential folk/rock singer/songwriters of our time, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen comes to Phoenix to perform fan-favorites from past albums such as, “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy” "Tower Of Song" and the masterpiece "Hallelujah" ...

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...

I got that song on my little laptop," Leonard Cohen says, sitting diminutively on a couch in his suite at the Warwick Hotel in Manhattan, both hands clutching an unsipped mug of coffee. He is discussing a new, unreleased track he's recorded, an accomplishment worthy of celebration for the...

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.

 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 ...

 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 ...

By DrHGuy On the other hand, the audience response to the line, “I’m your man,” led me to the obviously desirable Leonard Cohen retail remembrance. Managed Audience Participation The problem is that everybody wants to be the one handing roses to Leonard Cohen or calling out songs suggestions to hi...

 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 ...

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. This LA Times interview can be found at Leonard Cohen reborn in the U.S.A..

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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...

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...

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."

By Dave Parrack Alexandra Burke won The X Factor 2008 and her version of Hallelujah, a Leonard Cohen song brought to life superbly by Jeff Buckley is the song vying for UK Christmas number one. She faces competition from Rick Astley, Leona Lewis and a few others but this is a dead cert.

By Dave Parrack Alexandra Burke won The X Factor 2008 and her version of Hallelujah, a Leonard Cohen song brought to life superbly by Jeff Buckley is the song vying for UK Christmas number one. She faces competition from Rick Astley, Leona Lewis and a few others but this is a dead cert.

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

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen is, after all, the man known as4 the Grand Master of Melancholia, the Godfather Of Gloom, the Master Of Erotic Despair, the Poet Of Bedsit Angst, the Gloom Merchant, the Poet Laureate Of Pessimism, the Apocalyptic Lounge Lizard, the High Priest Of Pathos, the [Biblically l...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows The latter consists of Cohen songs performed by such artists as zydeco and Cajun singer Zachary Richard, Barenaked Lady Steven Page, Quebec crooner Garou, and singer-songwriters Lhasa de Sela, Serena Ryder and Adam Cohen.

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

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...

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)

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.

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...

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...

By Richard Marcus Two of the more fascinating discussions centred around Songs Of Love And Hate and the Phil Spector-produced Death Of A Ladies Man. In the case of the former the discussion focuses on the fact that for the first time Cohen used a full band both in the studio and on the road. Ron Cornelius was band...