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COHEN

A Tribute to Leonard Cohen and His Words

...You are playing to people who have experienced a catastrophe.
This should make you very quiet.
Speak the words, convey the data, step aside.
Everyone knows you are in pain.
You cannot tell the audience everything you know about love
in every line of love you speak.
Step aside and they will know what you know
because they know it already.
You have nothing to teach them...
                                                          How to Speak Poetry
                                                              Death of a Lady's Man
                                                       & Stranger Music

There is a path for every broken heart.--L.C. 1988

So come, my friends, be not afraid.
We are so lightly here.
It is in love that we are made;
In love we disappear.
Though all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.

                                                      Boogie Street
                                                   Ten New Songs

Details, 1/93, by Anton Corbun

The photograph of Cohen, by Anton Corbun,
appeared in the magazine Details, January, 1993.


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CANCELED 30-Aug-08 Berlin, Germany


Who will be Leonard's lovely angels singing backing vocals?
Check them out -
Updated April 20.

Read Heck Of A Guy's field guide to the life of Leonard Cohen,
humorous and insightful lessons on Cohen for the new fan,
and How to Behave at a Leonard Cohen Concert, revised for 2008


Independent.ie - March 23, 2008 by Barry Egan
"Bob Dylan was never enamoured of the term poet...
Leonard Cohen...saw it differently.
'I always thought of myself as a competent, minor poet.
I know who I'm up against'..."


Leonard Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City on March 10, 2008.
Lou Reed gave the induction speech and
Damien Rice provided the vocal tribute to Leonard's music.
Read about the ceremony and the buzz leading up to the big event.
And check out the invitation and program and pictures from the dinner too.


Get the scoop on Leonard's band:

Roscoe Beck - bass & vocal (Musical Director)
Neil Larsen - keyboard, accordion, brass instruments
Bob Metzger - guitar, steel guitar & vocal
Javier Mas - bandurria, laud, archilaud and 12 string acoustic guitar.
Rafael Gayol - drums & percussion
Dino Soldo - keyboard, saxophone, wind instruments & vocal


Anjani told us Javier Mas will be handling the ethnic stringed instruments chair
on Leonard's tour. So who is he and what is Acordes con Leonard Cohen?


Toronto Star - March 23, 2008 by Francine Kopun
"A guitar. A creaky voice. Poetry,
black suits and a mournful expression.
If you guessed Leonard Cohen, you are a longtime fan,
or you've been watching American..."
***
Interesting thoughts about this article in
Heck Of A Guy's blog.


The Brock Press - March 18, 2008 by Katherine Gottli
..."We will be building statues to Cohen in the future.
Any acknowledgement of his work at this point in his career is
but a token down-payment of the homage that he is due..."


Heck Of A Guy - March 18, 2008 by DrHGuy
"The Leonard Cohen Custom Search Engine
at LeonardCohenSearch.com
is a Google-powered search process that has been altered (customized)
to search only specified web sites or,
in some cases, specified portions of web sites..."


The London Free Press - March 16, 2008 by James Reaney
"Much of the world knows
where Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was last week...
Perhaps only London's greatest poet -- my mother, Colleen Thibaudeau --
recalls where Cohen was early in the evening of Oct. 26, 1964..."


The Boston Globe - March 14, 2008 by Geoff Edgers
"...A spare piano chord, a breathy voice, and opening lines
flecked with biblical references before a quietly uplifting chorus kicks in.
This is "Hallelujah," a 23-year-old song that has become
the most trafficked tune of the soundtrack era..."


Montreal Gazette - March 07, 2008 by Juan Rodriguez
Biographical article written on the
eve of Leonard's induction into the Hall of Fame.


Leonard Cohen... On Songwriting (30 min)
Broadcast on Radio 2 Thu 28 Feb - 23:00
Leonard Cohen gives a rare insight into his songwriting methods.


Read the big announcement of Leonard's World Tour and what others are writing.


Leonard participated in Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters,
which won Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Album
at this year's Grammy Awards.
Listen to the song "Jungle Line" featuring Leonard.
And read about the party thrown to celebrate Canadian artists,
which was attended by Leonard.
Also included is a link to party footage, with footage of Leonard.


The Guardian - September 17, 2004 by Tim de Lisle
As the godfather of gloom turns 70,
Tim de Lisle describes his brush with death
- and lists 69 other things you may not know about him


What was it like to perform a Leonard Cohen song in front of The Man himself?
k.d. lang tells you.


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Leonard's latest book is now in stores

Book of Longing expresses Leonard's uncompromising vision
and deepest introspection through his poems, lyrics and musings
and personal drawings and sketches.

Visit the Book of Longing website for more details.
Book of Longing
Blue Alert Blue Alert represents a collaboration between Anjani and her
mentor Leonard Cohen and is co-written and produced by Cohen.
Leonard calls Anjani's music "exotic, dreamy and hypnotic...
She was always a great singer, but now she's a world class singer,
in full command of an unforgettable voice."

Visit Anjani's website and the Blue Alert website.

Blue Alert will be released in Europe in February 2007
and re-released in the US on April 24, 2007.


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Road Stops for Information

Out-of-Print Poetry Books & Novels

Albums, Records, CDs

Videos - Documentaries & Performances

Song Lyrics, Music Clips

Links to Other Cohen Sites



LEONARD COHEN / HALLS OF FAME
The Official Halls of Fame Biographies of Leonard Cohen


Leonard Cohen:
In His Own Live Words


For more articles about Leonard Cohen visit the
Articles and Interviews section of
The Leonard Cohen Files,
A Thousand Kisses Deep,
A Tribute to Carter's Bird on a Wire
,
and for our French speaking fans,
check out the articles in the Archives section of

The French Leonard Cohen site

And check out the official Sony Leonard Cohen site.



Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - A Documentary Film by Lian Lunson

The Leonard Cohen Experience




There is a path for every broken heart.--L.C. 1988

This site was created and is maintained by Marie Mazur.
The sole purpose of this site is to provide Cohen fans
everywhere an opportunity to gain further insights and pleasure
from The Man and his words.
I hope that the writers and photographers who's work
is featured in these pages, as well as the magazines which
published those works, will forgive the insatiable desire
of fans to lay their hands upon anything
concerning the work and words of Leonard Cohen.

I wish to thank Jarkko Arjatsalo and Dick Straub
for their encouragement and kindness and
Patrice Clos for knowing my heart.
And there are not enough ways to say thank you
to Leonard Cohen for the joy and comfort
his work has provided me.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
Email Marie at Megan2C2B@aol.com

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