Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

Leonard Cohen‘s birthday today

Leonard and Allen:

Allen Ginsberg & Leonard Cohen – woodcut by George A Walker

– don’t miss our extensive collection of links and hommage to Leonard Cohen (from back in 2014)

Leonard and Dylan –  Check out “Dylan Sings “Hallelujah” and the Praises of Leonard Cohen” in American Songwriter

Don’t miss David Remnick’s Farewell profile in The New Yorker

Michelle L. Rice, the Cohen estate’s lawyer, in response to the egregious use of  “Hallelujah” (twice!) at the recent RNC  – “”We are surprised and dismayed that the RNC would proceed knowing that the Cohen Estate had specifically declined the RNC’s use request, and (at) their rather brazen attempt to politicize and exploit in such an egregious manner…Had the RNC requested another song, ‘You Want it Darker,’ for which Leonard won a posthumous Grammy in 2017, we might have considered approval of that song.”

 

2024 update

Today (this weekend) in Hydra, Greece , the very first Leonard Cohen-themed documentary film festival

Leonard Cohen – The Man Who Saw The Angels Fall – “gracefully blending biography and essay” is now out

 

Leonard and Dylan:

On October 29th, 2023 at the Place des Arts, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal,  Bob Dylan performed a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me To The End Of Love” for the first time ever as an homage to Cohen in Cohen’s hometown

Here’s Leonard performing the song himself in London back in 2008

and more Dylan Cohen covering  – here 

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