Leonard Cohen

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By DrHGuy Yesterday’s post noted a possible resemblance between the cover art of a featured bootleg, BigO: Bruce Springsteen – Merry Christmas From Asbury Park (click on images for best viewing): … and my homemade image atop last year’s Heck Of A Guy post, Nobody Rocks Christmas Like Bruce Spring...

By DrHGuy “Too Old” from Armelle Brusq’s “Leonard Cohen. Spring 1996. A Portrait In Time” I happened onto Leonard Cohen’s recitation of his poem, “Too Old,” from Book of Longing shortly after it was uploaded to YouTube today and felt compelled to post it. The Armelle Brusq documentary shot in Spring 1...

By DrHGuy The Newest Biography Of Leonard Cohen I just received my copy of the recently published “Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah, A New Biography” by  Tim Footman.  Even though I have read only a handful of pages, I can already provide revisions that will enhance ones reading experience (thus, the “&a...

By DrHGuy Sylvie Simmons Does Leonard Cohen – Coming Soon To A Publisher Near You A biography of Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist, has been acquired by Random House imprint Jonathan Cape. The title was won through a “heated” auction between nine publishers which w...

By DrHGuy The Plane, Leonard, The Plane Now that the Leonard Cohen World Tour is on hiatus, fans are no doubt asking themselves, “Wouldn’t it be cool if I rented the plane Leonard Cohen usually flies on tour and take 17 of my closest friends along with that humorous, debonair, and good-looking DrHGu...

By DrHGuy Three New Songs By Leonard Cohen1 Over the course of the Leonard Cohen World Tour, three new, unreleased songs have been presented in concert, giving rise to speculation that they may be included on a forthcoming Leonard Cohen album: “Lullaby” “The Darkness” “Feels So Good” (formerly k...

By DrHGuy Coming To A Computer Desktop Near You – Leonard Cohen World Tour Desktop Wallpaper It’s an axiom among Leonard Cohen fan that there is no such thing as too much Leonard in ones life. Consequently, I’ve put together two photo collages, the one above comprising scenes of significance from th...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen – Another Thousand Kisses Deep In San Jose Leonard Cohen Item #1:   Leonard Cohen’s recitation of “A Thousand Kisses Deep” at the November 13, 2009 San Jose show was not the standard concert version of the poem. Leonard Cohen Item #2:   There is no standard concert version of...

By DrHGuy Those who followed Heck Of A Guy coverage of the Leonard Cohen Las Vegas and San Jose concerts this past weekend1 may recognize Albert Noonan, aka albertnoonan, as the source of the most reliably excellent videos of Leonard Cohen World Tour performances.2 And, in fact, his last exploit, c...

By DrHGuy This video, just uploaded minutes ago, is interesting in its own right as another outstanding Leonard Cohen performance of one of his standards, but the audience’s reactions alone would justify a viewing as would Roscoe Beck’s echoing Cohen’s “Please” with his perfectly elongated an...

By DrHGuy “First We Take Manhattan” And “So Long Marianne” From Leonard Cohen November 13, 2009 San Jose Concert The albertnoonanfest continues with videos from the last currently scheduled Leonard Cohen World Tour US show. For more San Jose concert videos, photos, and information, see the list...

By DrHGuy The Dino Dialectic Perhaps the most prevalent criticism of the Leonard Cohen World Tour concerts has been that Dino Soldo’s solos and the associated gymnastics are too intrusive, too distracting, or just too much. Perhaps the element of the Leonard Cohen World Tour concerts most freque...

By DrHGuy Audience Gets Rowdy, Leonard Cohen & Crew Get Distracted, and We Get The Albert Noonan Video Yeah the women tear their blouses off and the men they dance on the polka-dots From “Closing Time” by Leonard Cohen Albert Noonan, better known in Cohen Country as albertnoonan, Vizier Of Vid...

By DrHGuy To share the sensations of the impending Leonard “Lounge Lizard” Cohen Las Vegas concert, bridgebud, has uploaded this clip of the marquee at Caesar’s Palace. The Heck Of A Guy Alternative While Caesars Palace has done an adequate job promoting the Cohen performance, I prefer the versio...

By DrHGuy While Timothy Finn’s  Review: Leonard Cohen at Back to Rockville, the music blog for the Kansas City Star, is a tad uneven in its coverage of The Leonard Cohen November 9, 2009 Kansas City Concert, this thoughtful and engaging post does have its moments and is well worth reading in its enti...

By DrHGuy Caring Canucks Brush Up for Kidney Foundation Adrian du Plessis, business manager for the impossibly talented Allison Crowe, alerts us to an eBay auction of “paintings by athletes, politicians, performers, journalists, and others” to raise funds for kidney research in Canada. Inclu...

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 First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Alpha Centauri After discovering the Leonard Cohen Intergalactic Tour poster (shown above)  in the Chicago Rosemont Theatre dressing room assigned to Cohen at last week’s concert, Heck Of A Guy Editor and Publisher, DrHGuy, unleashed this blog’s...

By DrHGuy According to a post at LeonardCohenForum by jarkko,1 The other concerts in Europe are to be announced soon and will be Bratislava (March 13, Sibamac Arena), Ljubljana (March 17, Tivoli Hall), and Moscow (March 19, Kremlin Palace). Readers who viewed this page also viewedLeonard Cohen P...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen1 invited me to the soundcheck and backstage buffet before the October 29, 2009 Chicago Rosemont Theatre concert and to the Green Room get-together afterward. Let me tell you about it.2 Now, this is not another article that claims to be an interview with Leonard Cohen but is ac...

By DrHGuy “Feels So Good, Baby, Not To Love You Like I Did” Proves Popular With Fans From my review of fan sites and music blogs, it is clear that the new Leonard Cohen song first auditioned in Chicago on October 29, 2009 has been greeted with enthusiastic approbation online. It has also changed, under...

By DrHGuy Note the date on this poster. Yep,  the Leonard Cohen World Tour has ann0unced 5 dates in France during March 2010: March 1: Caen, Zenith March 3: Lille, Zenith March 5: Strasbourg, Zenith March 7: Marseille, Le Dome March 9: Grenoble, Palais des Sports March 11: Tours, Le Grand Hall It appe...

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 In a comment to yesterday’s post, Last Shadow Puppets Go Orchestral With Leonard Cohen’s “Memories”, sturgess66 alerted readers to the just uploaded1 version of "Memories" performed by Leonard Cohen Copenhagen in 1985. The poor video quality notwithstanding, this recording is wort...

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...

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By 1hoag To fulfill customer demand following the successful debut of the “What would Dino do? (and would he do it with me?)” t-shirt, the Heck Of A Guy New & Improved Leonard Cohen Merchandise Emporium1 has expanded the Dino Duds line with the introduction of the “Dino does it for trills” t-sh...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen – I Tried To Leave You (New York, October 23, 2009) Video from tktsman Leonard Cohen – So Long Marianne (New York, October 23, 2009) Video from alkmrt Readers who viewed this page also viewedLeonard Cohen Sings "So Long Marianne" To Marianne

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By 1hoag While Leonard Cohen has been a remarkably consistent performer throughout the World Tour, “Bird On The Wire” is one of his songs that does seem to vary in caliber from one concert to the next. Of course, that perception may be more telling about my receptive deficiencies than Cohen’s skill...

By 1hoag sturgess66 was kind enough to let me know she had just uploaded the first three of her videos from last night’s Leonard Cohen World Tour concert in Philadelphia. Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah” – Tower Theatre, Philadelphia – 10-22-09 Video from sturgess66 Leonard Cohen – “I’m Your Man” – To...

By 1hoag All YouTube Videos Thus Far From Tampa and Atlanta Cohen Concerts Cohen Alleged To Have Performed In Tampa and Atlanta Leonard Cohen ostensibly played concerts in Tampa on Oct 19, 2009 and Atlanta on Oct 20, 2009. Thus far, however, little that is blogworthy  has emerged from those shows. T...

By DrHGuy Viewers may recall a recent Heck Of A Guy post that focused on the 1970 Isle Of Wight music festival and Leonard Cohen’s performance there as well as the impending release of Leonard Cohen Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 – CD/DVD, BluRay, & LPs On Sale Oct 20, 2009. This outstanding [...]

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,...

By 1hoag Suzanne and Chelsea Hotel #2 Live From Istanbul These videos of the August 6, 2009 Leonard Cohen Istanbul Concert which just came online at YouTube (Suzanne had 1 viewing listed when I came across it) are among the best may – and indeed may be the best – now available from that performance. ha...

By 1hoag Reliving Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah At Ramat Gan Stadium While this video is imperfect (much of it is shaky, parts are out of focus, the angle from the camera to the stage is severely acute, and shot selection is questionable in some instances), these flaws are more than compensated for b...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen To World Tour Fans: “I Still Love You, Too” For those desirous of commemorating the completion of the  Summer 2009 European leg of the Leonard Cohen World Tour, those anticipating the series of concerts in the USA that will conclude the World Tour, and those desperate for a C...

By DrHGuy As already evidenced by earlier Heck Of A Guy posts, Leonard Cohen & Anjani Appear On TV Talk Show and Leonard Cohen On His Poems, Zen, Hallelujah, His 6 Good Songs, Money, America, And The Squirrel, Leonard Cohen seems especially forthcoming in interviews on Norwegian broadcasts. T...

By DrHGuy Musical Of Backstage Lives Of Artists On Tour Opens Off-Broadway To Mixed Reviews This teaser features Leonard Cohen as videographer, Anjani Thomas in pseudo-rant, and Dominique Issermann directing. An unrecognized (by me) cast member provides comic relief. The scene deteriorates w...

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 A Very 1970 Leonard Cohen Performance At Leeds University Yesterday, denispiggott, in his first post on LeonardCohenForum, wrote I was a student at Leeds University in 1970 and was privileged to see Leonard Cohen’s concert on the 19th May. There are some great photos on the university we...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen – Blessings (Barcelona Sept 21 2009) Video by TallMan3rdRow Leonard Cohen -Hallelujah (Barcelona Sept 21 2009) Video by xdreus Waiting for Leonard Cohen (Barcelona Sept 21 2009) Video by Af12007

By DrHGuy Birkat Kohanim Concludes Leonard Cohen’s Historic Performance In Israel The best video I’ve seen thus far of the closing and blessings from the  Leonard Cohen Tel Aviv concert, presenting a direct view of the onstage action itself rather than a recording of a telescreen projection, be...

By DrHGuy Unique Visitors To HeckOfAGuy.com The impact of Leonard Cohen’s birthday on Heck Of A Guy is self-apparent in the above graph showing “Unique Visitors”1 and the graph of Page Views2 shown below. These stats are from Google Analytics. Page Views Of HeckOfAGuy.com The graph below shows the vi...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen And The Jerusalem Gypsy Meet In Tel Aviv While perhaps not the most elegant or lyrical account of the Leonard Cohen Tel Aviv Concert, The High Priest, a post by Jerusalem Gypsy in the Jerusalem Wanderings blog may prove to be my favorite. Jerusalem Gypsy, you see, admires Leon...

By DrHGuy The Leonard Cohen World Tour & Emotional Roller Coaster Over the past week, Leonard Cohen’s admirers, already dizzy from following the World Tour as it has caravanned from the first concert on May 11, 2008 in Fredericton, NB, Canada, across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada,...

By DrHGuy There is nothing to explain; it’s something wonderful and it’s self-apparent. Just watch these two views of the same shining moment. Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah (Tel Aviv, Sept 24, 2009) Video by albertabi Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah (Tel Aviv, Sept 24, 2009) Video by CityMouseGuide Reade...

By DrHGuy The dapper dude now on his way to the Cohen concert is, of course, none other than globe-trotting Heck Of A Guy correspondent, baotzebao. Reports to follow. Readers who viewed this page also viewedAfter 20 Year Absence, Leonard Cohen To Perform In Israel TodayReport From Leonard Cohen Tel...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen, baotzebao, 46,999 Others Anticipated At Ramat Gan Stadium Tonight Early this morning, Heck Of A Guy received a message titled, There’s music on Hayarkon Street all through the night, from the blog’s chief foreign correspondent in Israel, baotzebao, who reports that “a...

By DrHGuy I’ve already posted a number of interesting videos from the Barcelona Concert but I can’t resist adding this just-uploaded offering from albertnoonan that features the opening of the performance and the crowd singing Happy Birthday to Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen – Happy Birthday, Le...

By DrHGuy Candle-lit Moment From Leonard Cohen Barcelona Concert I lit a thin green candle To make you jealous of me, - From “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong” by Leonard Cohen During Leonard Cohen’s performance of “Suzanne” at the Sept 21, 2009 birthday concert in Barcelona, audience members lit the audi...

By DrHGuy Decoy Details Yesterday’s Heck Of A Guy entry, Leonard Cohen Arrives In Israel, revealed that a decoy was used during Leonard Cohen’s arrival in Israel: Leonard Cohen landed in Israel last night, 24 years after his last concert in the country. The Jewish-Canadian singer and poet arrived...

By DrHGuy baotzebao, our man in Italy who is temporarily our man in Israel, has alerted Heck Of A Guy to reports that Leonard Cohen has arrived in the country. Singer Leonard Cohen lands in Israel ahead of concert by Guy Hajaj (Haaretz, September 22, 2009) reports Veteran singer Leonard Cohen landed...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen’s 75th Birthday Impends While Heck Of A Guy happily celebrated Leonard Cohen’s 73rd and 74th birthdays, the prospect of his completion of 75 years on the planet in less than two weeks (September 21, 2009) has us and Cohen fans everywhere giddy with anticipation. Big plans, i...

By DrHGuy Another (Im)Modest Proposal To Improve Cohen Concerts Sharp-eyed readers may have noted that the graphics1 on this post are not, as they may first appear,  photos of Leonard Cohen and his musicians rehearsing “If It Be Your Will” for their Chicago concert scheduled this fall. Careful in...

By DrHGuy The video is taken from too far away to be excellent, but it does clearly demonstrate the Belgrave audience’s enthusiasm about and love for Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen – So Long Marianne (Beogradska Arena, Sept 2.09, 2009). Video by Greatjakuza

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 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. A recent post, How The Beatles Changed The World – Wi...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen – Closing Time l(Belgrade, Sept 2, 2009) Excellent quality video. The sequence ends a tad abruptly at the completion of the song (battery failure).  Animated performance. Enthusiastic audience. Video by mixxailo Leonard Cohen – The Partisan (Belgrade, Sept 2, 2009) Again,...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen World Tour – Playing The Odds In Las Vegas Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That...

By DrHGuy Bratislava Videos By Albert Noonan Now Available Worthy of special attention among these videos from Leonard Cohen’s Bratislava  by albertnoonan1 that just came online at YouTube,2 is Bird On The Wire with poignant solos by Bob Metzger and Dino Soldo, beginning at 2:00 and 2:54, respe...

By DrHGuy Because … Because “So Long, Marianne” has become the de facto signature song (or, at least, the designated sing-along number) of the current European leg of the Leonard Cohen World Tour, because Leonard Cohen will soon (September 24, 2009)  be playing his first concert in Israel since 1...

By DrHGuy Venice Concert Hits Just Keep On Coming Yet another high quality video of a Leonard Cohen performance, “First We Take Manhattan,” from the Venice Concert has surfaced on YouTube. The outstanding video shot by videodharma spotlights the high theatrics on display that night and the exten...

By DrHGuy The Wiesen Audience Audition Leonard Cohen’s Wiesen Concert last night (August 26, 2009) is worthy of note on at least two counts -  (1) the crowd, if the videos are any indication, was especially enthusiastic and responsive, resembling those in Dublin, for example, more than the somew...

By DrHGuy The Leonard Cohen Personal Touch I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to the great city of Dublin to fool you [emphasis mine] As was true in the above example, Leonard Cohen’s insertion of a city’s name1 into the last verse of “Hall...

By DrHGuy The final four minutes of Leonard Cohen’s 1988 interview on French TV with journalist Patrick Poivre d’Arvo, the first portion of which was posted at  Leonard Cohen On Dominique Isserman, Israel, Terrorism, became available late last night on YouTube.  As before, the video was transla...

By DrHGuy The boxing gloves and stethoscope, accouterments to lyrics from “I’m Your Man” deposited on stage (first documented in the photo posted at Leonard Cohen Equipped To Step Into The Ring And Examine Every Inch Of You), can now be viewed in this video excerpt  of  that song’s performance at L...

By DrHGuy “Robots Need Love Too” is an especially infectious tune from Dan Mangan, described as an “indie-rock/folk singer-songwriter from British Columbia.” How could I resist posting a song that contains both these lyrics, Robots need love too They want to be loved by you They want to be loved by...

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. The “Sweet Little Sound”1 Of Janis Joplin Today’s s...

By DrHGuy Editor’s Note: Those unaware of the ongoing posts about the boxing gloves and stethoscope that appeared on the stage at the Leonard Cohen Colmar Concert may find it useful to check Leonard Cohen Equipped To Step Into The Ring And Examine Every Inch Of You to bring themselves up to speed. Ala...

By DrHGuy If you want a boxer I will step into the ring for you And if you want a doctor I’ll examine every inch of you From “I’m Your Man” by Leonard Cohen Photo of “I’m Your Man” Props Goes Online Thanks to Heck Of A Guy viewer, Uli, who, accompanied by his Swiss sidekick, attended the Leonard Cohen Colma...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows (Colmar 2009) pearlvoice, AKA Christine Geyer,1  underwent her initiation into Cohen Concert Videography at the Colmar show 16 August 2009.  Of course, everybody knows that not everything goes smoothly in such situations,  even for Cohen fanatics. Chr...

By DrHGuy The Release The official news is that, after the usual spate of rumors, broken deadlines, and inexplicable variations in recordings, the CD/DVD set, the BluRay disc,1 and the two-LP set of Leonard Cohen’s performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival  will be released on October 20, 20...

By DrHGuy 1964 Canadian Documentary Film Spices Routine Listing Of Leonard Cohen Info State of Grace – Leonard Cohen’s Return by  Sasha Frere-Jones (New Yorker, August 24, 2009), which summarizes Cohen’s career from his years as a poet and novelist (with a parenthetical mention of his father’s...

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 Other than the insertion of “Istanbul” into the lyrics of “Hallelujah” (i.e., “I did not come to the great city of Istanbul to fool ya”), there is little in these photos or the video to identify this performance as one that took place in that city.1 Yet, knowing that these artifacts did origina...

By DrHGuy International Heck Of A Guy Cohen Cabal Expands In response to Heck Of A Guy posts on the Leonard Cohen Concert in Venice, I received email from an Italian blogger reporting that he had read posts from my blog and wondered if I were the individual he had seen at the Venice show picking up [...]

By DrHGuy 3 Videos Of 1984 Leonard Cohen Norway Concert Surface Two days ago, three videos taken from a TV broadcast of a 1984 performance by Leonard Cohen in Kalvøya (”Isle of Calf” – near Oslo),  Norway appeared on YouTube. While all three are interesting and well worth watching, the most entertai...

By DrHGuy Local Reports Of Cohen Concert Leonard Cohen played his first Istanbul concerts August 5 and 6, 2009. At this point, I can no videos and few photos of the performances. I have, however, discovered a few newspaper reports and an enchanting review by a 15 year old posted in LeonardCohenForum t...

By DrHGuy So Long Marianne By Leonard Cohen & Dublin (Again) I’ve posted yet another “So Long, Marianne” video because if you are a Leonard Cohen fan, this video by Joan of LeonardCohenForum is going to make you very happy. Watch the expressions on Cohen’s face and how he connects with the audien...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen In Venice “So Long, Marianne” continues to be the Leonard Cohen Summer 2009 European Tour go-to song for audience response with the Venetian crowd booming forth on the chorus and Cohen complimenting the effort with an “Ah, you sing so sweet” (2:45). Also noteworthy is Cohen...

By DrHGuy Leonard, Are We Having Fun Yet? Leonard Cohen’s performance of “Closing Time” in Venice is outstanding. He is confident and in full control, he sings well, and – most significantly – he looks like he’s having fun. Ongoing readers may recall my recent description of Leonard Cohen In Belfast...

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...

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...

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.

By DrHGuy A Glimpse Of Hydra in 1960 And Leonard Cohen’s Life There Meandering about LeonardCohenForum, I happened onto an item labeled Life mag archive - 1960 pic of Leonard & Marianne And sure enough, a forum participant, jazz4111, introduced this treasure with these words:

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...

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 DrHGuy Robin Grey Robin Grey Sings I Love Leonard Cohen My Weezer cd’s well they hardly get played, My obsession with Jeff Buckley has all but ended, You might ask is anything certain these days, And I’d probably tell you that I love Leonard Cohen. Hey hey I Love Leonard Cohen - Robin Grey

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen's “Born With The Gift Of A Golden Voice” At Risk For Misinterpretation As Narcissistic Boast In many ways, it was another routine case of human error, the careless misinterpretation of Leonard Cohen’s mock boast in Tower Of Song, “I was born with the gift of a golden voice.”

By DrHGuy In an interview1 tied in to her concert last night in Ottawa, Judy Collins talked about the conundrum certain singer-songwriters face in choosing whether to perform their own songs or those popularized by others, an issue addressed recently in this blog at Allison Crowe On The Cover.  Gi...

By DrHGuy Leonard Cohen and Rob Hallet Fredericton is Leonard Cohen’s off-Broadway. DrHGuy suggests that “warm-up dates in Canada” and “Fredericton is Leonard Cohen’s off-Broadway” are congruent responses to “Why The 2008 Leonard Cohen World Tour Opened In Fredericton.”

By DrHGuy Diane Vickers Diane Vickers Makes Hallelujah “Totally Her Own” Well, thank goodness somebody finally nailed “Hallelujah.” It was becoming a huge embarrassment as, year after year, Leonard Cohen, k.d. lang, Jeff Buckley, Allison Crowe, and those other losers botched the job.

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...

By DrHGuy The reason I solicited Allison Crowe's observations about performing covers,1 however, is simple. Allison Crowe is a talented, respected, and admired singer-songwriter with batches of original songs, who also performs, strikingly, a large number of covers, including Joni Mitchel...

By DrHGuy I do believe that Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson, the Webb sisters, Roscoe Beck and the rest of the band will play US and Western Canadian cities in 2009 because Roscoe Beck’s casual reference to the fact of the US/Canadian schedule is, well, believable.Absent some specific, as yet undis...

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 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 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 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...

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 Anjani2 is the exquisite, exotically featured singer and keyboardist best known for her Blue Alert CD, a collection of elegantly performed songs suffused with evocative lyrics, and her professional and romantic relationships with Leonard Cohen, an accomplished singer-songwrite...

By DrHGuy It seems to me that, these days, there are more singer/songwriters out in the world than there are normal, well-balanced people. Rock n’ Roll is everywhere. Everybody and their brother has a guitar, a website, a Myspace page, a CD, a venereal disease and a video. So as I sit down to write my Bio,...

By DrHGuy 1 Suzanne 3:42 - Ian McCulloch 5 Story Of Isaac 4:09 - Linda Thompson 9 Avalanche 5:13 - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 10 Chelsea Hotel No.2 4:19 - Josh Ritter 12 Tower Of Song 3:46 - Martha Wainwright 13 Song For Bernadette 4:21 - Judy Collins 14 Famous Blue Raincoat 5:08 - The Handsome Family

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 First, I want to make it clear that I am pleased with The 2008 Leonard Cohen Field Guide, which is the first chapter of A Leonard Cohen Primer, a simple, easy to understand introduction to Leonard Cohen for anyone who has recently tuned in to his music and for fans who may have listened to the s...

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.