Leonard Cohen
will be inducted into the
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
at the Waldorf Astoria hotel
in New York City on March 10, 2008.
The ceremony will be broadcast
live on VH1 Classic.
Congratulations Leonard!
Glad the rest of the world has finally realized what your fans always knew,
you are the best of the best.
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VH1 Classic to Televise the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony' Live on Monday, March 10 at 8:30 PM/ET
Leading Up to the Live Telecast, VH1 Classic Will Air Exclusive Programming Featuring Past and Present Inductees During 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' Week
Induction Ceremony To Be Simulcast Live In High-Definition on MTV Networks' MHD: Music High-Definition Channel
VH1 To Air Special Edition of 2007 Ceremony on Saturday, March 22 at 11:00 PM/ET
NEW YORK, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- VH1 Classic will air the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony" LIVE on Monday, March 10 at 8:30 PM/ET. Music fans will get to see and hear Madonna, John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, The Dave Clark Five and The Ventures get inducted into this esteemed musical institution as the action and music unfolds. In addition, Little Walter will be inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's" sideman category, and the newly named "Ahmet Ertegun Award" (formerly the non-performer category) will be presented to legendary producers, Gamble & Huff.
For the second time, the induction ceremony will be telecast LIVE from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on VH1 Classic and MTV Networks' MHD: Music High-Definition channel on Monday, March 10 at 8:30 PM/ET. In addition, a special two and a half hour highlight edition will premiere on VH1 on Saturday, March 22 at 11:00 PM.
The week leading up to the live special, VH1 Classic will air special programming to salute past and present Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees including Madonna, The Police, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and more. Highlighted programming for the week includes:
Both a classic documentary and a vital pop-cultural artifact, D.A. Pennebaker's portrait of Bob Dylan in "Don't Look Back" airing on Monday, March 3 at 9:00 PM captures the seminal singer-songwriter on the cusp of his transformation from folk prophet to rock trendsetter. The documentary was shot during Dylan's 1965 British concert tour.
VH1 Classic will air "BBC Crown Jewels: Stevie Wonder" on Tuesday, March 4 at 7:00 PM. The episode will feature a studio concert featuring one of the most enduring stars of popular music, Stevie Wonder. The concert was filmed in Teddington Studios for an audience of less than 200 and includes many of his Motown hits.
Marking 40 years since The Who's first U.S. appearance in North America, "VH1 Rock Docs: Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who" airing on Wednesday, March 5 at 8:00 PM is an exhilarating feature-length film about one of the seminal and most influential rock bands in history. Spanning over four decades, this documentary tells the unfolding story of The Who and how they have straddled the rock world for forty years. The film features all-new, exclusive, never-before-seen interviews with Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and others, rare and recently discovered concert footage, artist profiles and more.
"Led Zeppelin: Live" is culled from the few performances filmed during the band's lifetime. You'll see them at London's Royal Albert Hall in January 1970, shortly after the release of their blistering debut album. You'll catch them at Madison Square Garden in '73 then on to London's Earl's Court in May 1975. Finally, you'll sweat and groove to their record-breaking performances at Knebworth in 1979, just one year before the loss of drummer John Bonham. "Led Zeppelin: Live" premieres on Friday, March 7 at 9:00 PM.
On Monday, March 10 at 1:30 PM VH1 Classic will air "Rock and Roll Picture Show: Desperately Seeking Susan" starring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Madonna and Rosanna Arquette. The film is a delightfully offbeat, original comedy about a bored suburban housewife whose fascination with a kooky character she reads about in the personal ads leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
To learn more about these series and other VH1 Classic series and specials please visit http://www.vh1classic.com.
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Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen Together In New York Again
Heck Of A Guy - February 27, 2008 by DrHGuy
Yesterday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released the list of the artists who will induct this year's new members on March 10 in New York.
For those of us who think of the 2008 group of honorees as “Leonard Cohen et al,” the important name on the list is Lou Reed, who met Cohen a few years ago under different circumstances in the same town...
Read the rest of Heck Of A Guy's investigation here.
Lou Reed to induct Leonard Cohen into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
NEW YORK - Singer-songwriter Lou Reed will induct Canadian folk legend Leonard Cohen into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Cohen will be among those honoured March 10 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Other inductees include Madonna, John Mellencamp, the Dave Clark Five, the Ventures and Little Walter.
Cohen's first album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen," released in 1967 and reissued last year, included such memorable tracks as "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," as well as "Suzanne," which became a hit for singer Judy Collins.
Justin Timberlake will induct Madonna, while Tom Hanks will induct the Dave Clark Five, the '60s British pop band behind the hit "Glad All Over." Billy Joel will pay tribute to Mellencamp.
Ben Harper will induct Little Walter, who produced 14 Top 10 hits on the R&B charts before his death in 1968 at 37. John Fogerty will induct the Ventures, whose hits include "Walk Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O."
Singer-songwriter Jerry Butler will induct Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, founders of the Philadelphia International record label that collaborated with R&B artists such as Butler, the O'Jays, Patti LaBelle and Lou Rawls.
Lou Reed To Share Singing Tips With Leonard Cohen at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which has one its weaker classes this year, has announced the artists who will induct this year’s honorees on March 10 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Lou Reed will induct Leonard Cohen; Justin Timberlake will wax rhapsodic about Madonna;Ben Harper will heap praise on the late harmonica master Little Walter; John Mellencamp will hear Billy Joel's thoughts on small towns, middle America and leftist politics; the iceman, Jerry Butler from Chicago, will toast the long overdue Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff of Philadelphia; John Fogerty can share thoughts on making the same three chords work over and over for the Ventures; and Tom Hanks can detail the Playtone Galaxy of Stars and wonder what happened to the O'Neders when he inducts the Dave Clark Five.
Justin Timberlake to Induct Madonna into Rock Hall
People.com - February 26, 2008 by Stephen M. Silverman
Justin Timberlake and Madonna have a date next month – at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, organizers of the event have announced.
At a ceremony to take place on March 10 at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the "SexyBack" singer will induct the Material Girl into the hall. In addition to being honored at the New York ceremony, every inductee is commemorated within the I.M. Pei-designed museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
Besides Timberlake and Madonna, pairings of presenters and honorees (who were originally announced Dec. 13), include presenter Lou Reed and honoree Leonard Cohen; Tom Hanks and the Dave Clark Five (Dave Clark, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley, Denis Payton and Mike Smith); Billy Joel and John Mellencamp; and John Fogerty and the Ventures (Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards, Gerry McGee, Mel Taylor and Don Wilson).
Many thanks to Hall of Fame expert, Yankovic, for keeping us up to date by posting regularly on The Leonard Cohen Forum
Rock Hall Class of 2008
These artists were voted into the Rock Hall in 2007, but the induction ceremony took place in 2008. Click here for a list of artists who were first eligible in 2007 and haven't gotten in yet.
| Artist |
Inducted By |
Category |
| Little Walter |
Ben Harper |
Sideman |
| The Dave Clark Five |
Tom Hanks |
Performer |
| John Mellencamp |
Billy Joel |
Performer |
| Leonard Cohen |
Lou Reed |
Performer |
| Madonna |
Justin Timberlake |
Performer |
| The Ventures |
John Fogerty |
Performer |
| Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff |
Jerry Butler |
Non-Performer |
Next stop for Cohen: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Ottawa Citizen - September 29, 2007 by Heather Adler
Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is among nine acts that have been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Joining the Montreal-born poet are Madonna, hip-hop pioneers the Beastie Boys, John Mellencamp, Donna Summer, Jamaican beat originator Afrika Bambaataa, jazz-funk infusionists Chic, the Ventures and Dave Clark Five, it was announced this week.
The nine artists will be pitted against one another, with only five eventually being honoured at the induction ceremony on March 10 in New York. The winners will be chosen by 500 music industry professionals.
Mr. Cohen has already been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Mr. Cohen was also named a companion of the Order of Canada in 2003.
He is one of the most influential musicians of our day, known as much for his poetic yarns of love, sex, religion and depression as for his striking arrangements. Mr. Cohen, who has suffered from manic depression most of his life, is a first-time nominee.
He was cited by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in the song Pennyroyal Tea with the phrase, "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld/ So I can sigh eternally."
That's no surprise, since Mr. Cohen is one of the most interpreted artists in pop music history. His song, Hallelujah, was covered by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Patricia O'Callaghan and Bob Dylan.
According to one website, there are more than 720 cover versions of Mr. Cohen's music.
Mr. Cohen was the title character in Looking for Leonard, a movie about the discontented girlfriend of a bank robber whose hollow existence is brightened only by the prose of Leonard Cohen. And he has himself appeared on the small screen: He appeared on Miami Vice as guest character Zolan in 1986.
This is the first eligible year Madonna, the Beasties and Bambaataa could be on the ballot (25 years after an artist's first release), and Ms. Summer and the Ventures are also first-time nominees. Mr. Mellencamp was on the 2004 and 2006 ballots.
Jewish rap superstars the Beastie Boys have enjoyed more than 20 years of mainstream success, dominating the airwaves with such classics as Fight For Your Right, Sabotage and Ch-Check It Out.
Madonna signed with Sire Records in 1982 and has been entertaining -- and sometimes enraging -- people around the world ever since, even being crowned the most successful female artist of all time by the Guinness Book of World Records.
OK, that's a lot of competition. But hey, what's the worry? Everyone loves Leonard Cohen.
2008 ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME NOMINEES
ABC News - September 28, 2007
(George Pimentel/WireImage.com)
Leonard Cohen may not be as enigmatic a performer as the other nominees, but the literate songwriter's songs have been featured in countless films. Although Cohen began his music career in the '60s, going on to work with other influential aritists such as Phil Spector in the late '70s, he seeped onto the scene, gaining widespread notoriety when his "Everybody Knows" was used in 1990s' "Pump Up the Volume."
Rock Hall 2008 Nominees Announced: Lamest List Yet
Harp - September 28, 2007 by Fred Mills
(Pictured: Leonard Cohen, by Bob Cato)
So much for Punk, Prog and Psych: with today’s announcement of nominees for the 2008 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame it becomes clear we’ve reached a tipping point from which a permanent downhill slide in quality seems all but inevitable. The nominees are:
Afrika Bambaataa, Beastie Boys, Chic, Leonard Cohen, The Dave Clark Five, Madonna, John Mellencamp, Donna Summer and The Ventures.
True, most of these are deserving musicians even though several could hardly be said to be rock artists. And the old who-they-snubbed-this-year argument has played out each year without fail, so it’s almost pointless to argue; the list is what it is, so to speak.
And fookin’ hooray for someone finally realizing that Leonard Cohen deserves to be enshrined—hell, he deserves a wing at the Hall all to himself.
But we’re just sayin’… is the eventual inclusion of Herman’s Hermits, or Journey, or Silver Convention, or My Chemical Romance now a foregone conclusion? Why not Tiny Tim while we’re at it? Or Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds?!?
Oh, and just seven letters, lest anyone forgets what REAL rock ‘n’ roll sounds like: S-T-O-O-G-E-S, who were famously snubbed last year while children-of-Stooges R.E.M. and Patti Smith (well deserving, don’t get us wrong) were inducted.
From the Rock Hall:
Ballots with these nominees will be sent to over 500 voters who will choose the acts for inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for this year. Five new inductees will be honored at the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 10, 2008 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. To be eligible for nomination into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an act must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. This year's nominees had to release their first single no later than 1982.
See ya March 10, folks.
Cohen among 9 acts nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
CBC News - September 28, 2007
Leonard Cohen may not be as enigmatic a performer as the other nominees, but the literate songwriter's songs have been featured in countless films. Although Cohen began his music career in the '60s, going on to work with other influential aritists such as Phil Spector in the late '70s, he seeped onto the scene, gaining widespread notoriety when his "Everybody Knows" was used in 1990s' "Pump Up the Volume."
The Dave Clark Five, a British pop group of the 1960s known for hits such as Glad All Over.
The Ventures, a Seattle-based 1960s group known for surfer tunes and instrumentals, including Walk Don't Run.
John Mellencamp, an Indiana-born singer-songwriter known for hits such as Hurts So Good.
Donna Summer, the 1970s dance music singer known as the Queen of Disco.
Chic, a 1970s New York electronic and dance music group with hits such as Le Freak.
Afrika Bambaataa, a Bronx DJ who was instrumental in developing early hip hop.
Cohen, a Montreal poet and novelist known for melancholy hits such as Suzanne and Hallelujah, was inducted into Canada's Songwriters of Fame last year.
Madonna burst out of New York dance clubs in the early 1980s with Holiday and became a pop culture icon with her bad girl image and hits such as Like a Virgin.
She has had remarkable longevity as a pop artist and continues to top charts with her latest album Confessions from a Dance Floor.
The Beastie Boys started out as punk rockers and moved into hip hop creating hits such as Fight For Your Right [to Party ].
The hall of fame admitted its first rap pioneers — Grandmaster Flash — earlier this year and more hip hop names are appearing as nominees. Artists must have been around at least 25 years to qualify.
Madonna, Beasties, Mellencamp Up For Rock Hall
Billboard - September 27, 2007 by Jonathan Cohen
Madonna, the Beastie Boys, John Mellencamp and Leonard Cohen lead a wildly disparate class of nominees for 2008 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
They join Afrika Bambaataa, Chic, the Ventures, Donna Summer and the Dave Clark Five on the ballot. Five acts will be inducted March 10, 2008, at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
For eligibility, artists had to release their first single no later than 1982. Last year's inductees were R.E.M., Van Halen, Patti Smith, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and the Ronettes.
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