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Hope

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Leonard Cohen, RIP
« on: November 11, 2016, 06:30:42 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37946654

Many seem not to have heard of this guy, but his influence seems to have been pretty widespread.  He will be missed.
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2016, 07:57:47 AM »
Another chunk of my youth disappears - coupled with Davis Bowie what a bummer of a year 2016 has been (even without the catastrophic politics).

Got my first flat in the west-end of Glasgow in 1972 (Wilton St, for those who know the area, just a few minutes walk to the pubs in Byres Rd) - I was 20. His early stuff was a constant backdrop in those days, especially 'Songs from a Room' and 'Songs of Love and Hate' - happy days. Back then, unlike now, nobody used his full name: he was just 'Cohen'.

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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2016, 08:44:41 AM »
« Last Edit: January 10, 2020, 12:02:53 PM by Nearly Sane »
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2016, 09:09:34 AM »
Given the date, Cohen reciting In Flanders Fields is poignant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKoJvHcMLfc&feature=share
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2016, 09:10:19 AM »
Another star of the folk music scene stops shining.
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2016, 11:48:33 AM »
Cohen was a great poet, I have a book of his poetry somewhere as well as albums.  Like Gordon, part of my youth, I listened to his albums constantly.

He was at Glasto not that long ago, or so it seems.  I saw it on TV.
Only a couple of weeks ago there was an interview with him published in the Sunday Times Culture, wish I'd kept it now  :(.  He spoke so movingly of (and to), Suzanne who had died recently (edit: an article in yesterday's paper said it was Marianne he spoke about).

Cohen certainly had a long and eventful life.  RIP.
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2016, 12:05:04 PM »
And who by fire, who by water,
who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
who in your merry merry month of may,
who by very slow decay,
and who shall I say is calling?
...

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/whobyfire.html
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2016, 03:59:33 PM »
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2016, 04:15:22 PM »
What a year it's been.  The man with the scythe is cutting the grass, and hoiking it in the furnace. 
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2016, 04:19:59 PM »
Wow that is good - and long.  I am going to return to it time and time.
Thanks.

There was something about Cohen that reached a part of us and struck a chord.  I could feel it again reading that article.
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Re: Leonard Cohen, RIP
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