Leonard Cohen

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

 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 ...

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. ...

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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. ...

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 ...

 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 ...

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...

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 ...

 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. And, that segues into Cohen’s This LA Times interview can be found at Leonard Cohen reborn in the U.S.A..

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 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 ...

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 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...

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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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 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...