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Leonard Cohen inducted to Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame/ World Tour 2008 -2009!
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Leonard Cohen inducted to Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame/ World Tour 2008 -2009!
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 Thu, Mar 06 2008, 10:27 AM
 The singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen will be introduced to the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some here may know that he is one of my top 3 songwriters! The ceremony takes place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Monday, March 10th. Lou Reed will induct Leonard Cohen! http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/2008-inductee-announcement Leonard Cohen being inducted by Lou Reed; performance by Damien Rice Little Walter being inducted by Ben Harper; performance by James Cotton
The Ventures being inducted by John Fogerty; performance by The Ventures
The Dave Clark Five being inducted by Tom Hanks; performance by Joan Jett
Gamble & Huff being inducted by Jerry Butler; performance by Patti LaBelle
John Mellencamp being inducted by Billy Joel; performance by John Mellencamp
Madonna being inducted by Justin Timberlake; performance by Iggy Pop and The Stooges
There's an intertesting interview with Leonard Cohen on the BBC Radio 2 web site: "Mark Ellen interviews the reclusive Canadian Leonard Cohen, who gives a rare insight into his working methods, including a rare peek into his ideas notebook."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_songwriting.shtml
Hit the Listen Again link to replay the show. A thread about LC: http://davidgray.com/forums/thread/692794.aspx LEONARD COHEN | HALLS OF FAME
http://leonardcohenhallsoffame.blogspot.com/ Source: http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/
 "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
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Tue, Mar 11 2008, 11:47 AM
One of the greatest singer/songwriters Leonard Cohen inducted to the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! 
Leonard Cohen was introduced by Lou Reed, who quoted extensively from Cohen’s lyrics. “Thank you so much for reminding me that I wrote a couple of good lines,” Mr. Cohen deadpanned in his sepulchral voice. He called entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame an “unlikely event.” Lou Reed carried a sheaf of papers to the stage and read several examples of Cohen's lyrics.
"We're so lucky to be alive at the same time Leonard Cohen is," said Reed. Cohen recited the lyrics to his song Tower of Song in a hushed voice.
"This is a very unlikely occasion for me," said Cohen, in a black tuxedo. "It is not a distinction that I coveted or even dared dream about. Leonard Cohen's Speech:
Oh thank you so much friends, and Lou thank you so much for reminding me that I wrote a couple of good lines. I inducted you into my own ghostly hall of fame many many years ago. You flourished there from then until this very day. Thank you so much.
This is a very unlikely occassion for me. It is not a distinction that I coveted or even to dare dream about. I am reminded of the prophetic statement of Jon Landau in the early 70s. He said I have seen the future of Rock & Roll and it's not Leonard Cohen. So very pleased to be here. Such an unlikely event. To stand here among the inductees tonight is a great privilege and a great honor.
(Reciting Tower of Song): Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And Im crazy for love but Im not coming on
Im just paying my rent every day
Oh in the tower of song
I said to hank williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank williams hasnt answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the tower of song
I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the tower of song
So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
Im very sorry, baby, doesnt look like me at all
Im standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they dont let a woman kill you
Not in the tower of song
Now you can say that Ive grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And theres a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the tower of song(..)
Thank you friends!
Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar; born September 21, 1934)Induction Year: 2008; Induction Category: Performer Congratulations to Leonard!!!!! Watch this videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFioA9ebJM http://youtube.com/watch?v=o7IuCKfA0PM
Leonard Cohen Induction Year: 2008Induction Category: PerformerLeonard Cohen (vocals, guitar; born September 21, 1934) There are few artists in the realm of popular music who can truly be called poets, in the classical, arts-and-letters sense of the word. Among them are Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs. Leonard Cohen heads this elite class. In fact, Cohen was already an established poet and novelist before he turned his attention to songwriting. His academic training in poetry and literature, and his pursuit of them as livelihood for much of the Fifties and Sixties, gave him an extraordinary advantage over his pop peers when it came to setting language to music. Along with other folk-steeped musical literati, Cohen raised the songwriting bar. Cohen’s recording career spans 40 years, commencing with the 1967 release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. He was in his early thirties and seven years older than Dylan, and his age set him apart from the young musicians who dominated the rock and folk worlds. Cohen was born and raised in the city of Montreal, a city whose rich history and thriving culture served to train his writer’s muse on three fundamental preoccupations: romance, religion and politics. His first musical group, the Buckskins, played traditional music at square dances. He studied poetry at Montreal’s McGill University and published his first collection, Let Us Compare Mythologies, as part of the McGill Poetry Series. His favorite literary figures included the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, the Canadian poet Irving Layton, and Beat Generation figurehead Jack Kerouac. In 1958, Cohen lived in New York, where he briefly attended Columbia University. He received a grant for his writing that allowed him to travel the world and make the Greek island of Hydra his on-and-off home for a fertile seven-year period. Cohen relocated to the States in 1966 and tried his hand at songwriting, largely as a reaction to having experienced the starving lot of the poet and novelist. By then he’d published four books of poetry and two novels (including the celebrated Beautiful Losers). “But I found it was very difficult to pay my grocery bill,” Cohen said in 1971. “I’ve got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I’m very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but…I’m really starving.” Beyond the promise of better income, his entrée into the music world greatly increased the audience for his poetry. Cohen has always been adamant about the power of words to change individual lives and even entire societies for the better. “I always feel that the world was created through words, through speech in our tradition, and I’ve always seen the enormous light in charged speech,” Cohen told interviewer Robert Sward. “That’s what I’ve tried to get to [and] that is where I squarely stand.” Cohen found an early supporter and sponsor in Judy Collins, who introduced his songs to the world via her recordings of “Suzanne” (still his best-known song) and “Dress Rehearsal Rag” on her 1966 album In My Life. Legendary A&R man John Hammond signed Cohen to Columbia Records, and his first three albums for the label – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate - represent the fruitful first phase in an episodic recording career. The hallmarks of Cohen’s style were his plainspoken vocals, spare arrangements, deep but accessible lyrics, and an abiding preoccupation with the feminine mystique. Cohen’s tightly constructed verses served the rhyming and meter demands of pop-song form without sacrificing the higher ends of poetry. As a songwriter, Cohen seemed somewhat less comfortable in the Seventies than he had in the Sixties, recording only four albums of new material – Songs of Love and Hate (1971), New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977) and Recent Songs (1979) – in that decade. The first and last of these were marked by strong songwriting and sympathetic production, whereas Death of a Ladies’ Man was marked by difficulties with producer Phil Spector. Cohen’s output was lesser still in the Eighties, but the pair of albums he did release – Various Positions (1984) and I’m Your Man (1988) – are indisputable classics. The first of these found Cohen writing about spirituality; one of its songs (“Hallelujah”) is among his best-loved and most-recorded, having been covered by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Allison Krauss. The release of Various Positions was accompanied by the publication of Book of Mercy, a self-described “book of prayer.” I’m Your Man was arguably Cohen’s greatest set of songs since his 1967 debut, containing such classics as “Tower of Song,” “Everybody Knows” and “First We Take Manhattan.” In 1992, some of rock’s most respected acts, including R.E.M., the Pixies, and Nick Cave, contributed to the Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan. Another Cohen tribute album, Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1995), included cover versions from more mainstream artists, including Don Henley, Billy Joel and Elton John. Cohen’s most disenchanted and apocalyptic work, The Future, appeared in 1992. In the title track, he sang, “Get ready for the future, it is murder.” Not surprisingly, Cohen retreated to a mountaintop monastery in Southern California for five years, during which he studied with and served his Zen master, Joshu Sasaki-Roshi. “It was one of the many attempts I’ve made in the past 30 or 40 years to address acute clinical depression,” he acknowledged in a 2001 interview. That year, he released Ten New Songs, his first studio album in nearly a decade. He has since issued Dear Heather (2004) and produced Blue Alert (2006), an album by backup singer Anjani. Between their releases came the documentary I’m Your Man, which featured live performances of Cohen’s songs from U2, Beth Orton and others. On his ties to Columbia Records, similar in mutual loyalty and longevity to the careers of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Cohen told writer William Ruhlmann: “I never sold enough records to make them dependent on my next record or to make them anxious about it. On the other hand, I never lost them any money. [The records] seem to sell themselves in modest quantities with very little money necessary for promotion.” Cohen has earned a better living as a singer-songwriter than he would have as a poet and novelist alone. Yet he’s enjoyed the poet’s advantage of not having to compromise his dignity by indulging in the often-distasteful rituals of pop celebrity. In other words, he’s drawn the best from both worlds, forging a wholly unique and remarkable niche for himself. There’s no denying that Cohen’s voice has deepened and coarsened over the years, but there’s still a marvelous musicality to his phrasing and poetical lilt to his lyrics that attests to an unquenchable spirit. In his notes for The Essential Leonard Cohen, writer Pico Iyer noted, “The changeless is what he’s been about since the beginning…Some of the other great pilgrims of song pass through philosophies and selves as if through the stations of the cross. With Cohen, one feels he knew who he was and where he was going from the beginning, and only digs deeper, deeper, deeper.” Cohen’s artistic outlook might best be expressed in his own words with this lyric from “Anthem”: On Anthem (1992), he wrote: “There is a crack, a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.” He remarked, “That’s the closest thing I could describe to a credo. That idea is one of the fundamental positions behind a lot of the songs.”
TIMELINE September 21, 1934: Leonard Cohen is born in Montreal, Canada. 1956: Let Us Compare Mythologies, Leonard Cohen’s first book of poetry, is published in Canada as part of the McGill Poetry Series. 1966: Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen’s second novel, is published. December 1967: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the poet/novelist’s debut as a singer-songwriter, is released. It contains “Suzanne” and “Sisters of Mercy,” among his best-known songs. April 1969: Songs from a Room, Leonard Cohen’s second album, is issued. From it comes “Bird on the Wire” and other favorites. March 1971: Songs of Love and Hate, Leonard Cohen’s third album, is released. It is highlighted by “Famous Blue Raincoat” and “Joan of Arc.” November 1974: New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Leonard Cohen’s fourth album of original material, is released. Its original cover is banned in the U.S. November 1977: Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man –a Phil Spector production – is released. It will be followed by Cohen’s book Death of a Lady’s Man. September 1979: Leonard Cohen’s Recent Songs, is released. The Songs of Leonard Cohen, a documentary, is filmed in Canada and Europe the same year. December 1984: Various Positions, Leonard Cohen’s is released abroad. PVC Records issues it in the U.S. two months later after his label, Columbia Records, passes on it. January 1987: Jennifer Warnes, who has sung backup with Leonard Cohen as Jennifer Warren, issues Famous Blue Raincoat, an album of covers from Cohen’s songbook. November 10, 1989: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the singer/poet’s 1967 debut, is certified gold by the RIAA. October 25, 1990: I’m Your Man, by Leonard Cohen, is released. Arguably the poet-singer’s best album since his first, it includes “Tower of Song” and “Everybody Knows.” November 26, 1991: The Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan is released. It includes cover versions by R.E.M., the Pixies and other indie-rock acts. November 24, 1992: Leonard Cohen releases The Future, a dyspeptic album reflecting a mental state that inspires a five-year retreat. November 2, 1993: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, by Leonard Cohen, is published by Pantheon Books. The 432-page collection was assembled by the poet/singer himself. September 26, 1995: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is released. Contributors include Don Henley, Billy Joel, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, and other stars. October 9, 2001: Leonard Cohen releases Ten New Songs, his tenth studio album, his first new album in nine years, and his first to chart in the U.S. since 1973’s Live Songs. October 22, 2002: The Essential Leonard Cohen, a double-disc retrospective compiled by the artist, is released. August 31, 2004: Judy Collins, whose recordings of Leonard Cohen’s songs introduced the world to the singer/poet in the late Sixties, releases Democracy: Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen. October 26, 2004: Dear Heather, Leonard Cohen’s second studio album of the new millennium and the 11th of his career, is released shortly after the artist turns 70. September 2005: Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. The documentary includes tribute-concert footage from Sydney, Australia. February 2007: Leonard Cohen’s first three albums – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate – are reissued in expanded editions to mark his 40th anniversary as a recording artist. December 11, 2007: Composer Philip Glass’ Book of Longing – a double-disc song cycle based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen – is released on the Orange Mountain Music label. March 10, 2008: Leonard Cohen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 23rd annual induction dinner. Essential RecordingsSuzanne
Tower of Song
Famous Blue Raincoat
Hallelujah
Everybody Knows
So Long, Marianne
The Future
Came So Far for Beauty
Bird On the Wire
You Have Loved Enough Recommended ReadingBillboard magazine
November 28, 1998. (Note: This issue pays tribute to Leonard Cohen.) Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
Leonard Cohen. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. “Hallelujah: 70 Things About Leonard Cohen at 70.”
Time De Lisle. The Guardian (September 17, 2004). Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words.
Jim Devlin (ed.).London: Omnibus Press, 1998. Leonard Cohen: Prophet of the Heart.
L.S. Dorman and C.L. Rawlins. London: Omnibus Press, 1990. Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen.
Ira B. Nadel. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007.  
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
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Tue, Mar 11 2008, 5:42 PM
Thanks for that Nevermind. If it weren't for my bb friends, I would never have explored this very talented Canuck. 
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World Tour 2008 -2009/ Damien Rice performed Hallelujah at Leonard Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Tue, Mar 11 2008, 8:54 PM
 Bluewater: Thanks for that Nevermind. If it weren't for my bb friends, I would never have explored this very talented Canuck.
Hi Bluewater, you have the chance to see Leonard live in Toronto! LC annouced a huge world tour, his first after 15 years: 
Note: New cities in Canada will be added later this week.
Tour schedule (more concerts to be announced) 06-Jun-08 Toronto - Sony Centre For The Performing Arts
07-Jun-08 Toronto - Sony Centre For The Performing Arts
14-Jun-08 Dublin, Ireland - IMMA
15-Jun-08 Dublin, Ireland - IMMA
17-Jun-08 Manchester, UK - Opera House
18-Jun-08 Manchester, UK - Opera House
19-Jun-08 Manchester, UK - Opera House
20-Jun-08 Manchester, UK - Opera House
23-Jun-08 Montreal - Montreal Jazz Festival / Place des Arts
24-Jun-08 Montreal - Montreal Jazz Festival / Place des Arts
25-Jun-08 Montreal - Montreal Jazz Festival / Place des Arts
29-Jun-08 Glastonbury, UK - Glastonbury Festival
01-Jul-08 Oslo, Norway - Bislett Stadium
03-Jul-08 Helsingborg, Sweden - Open Air
05-Jul-08 Copenhagen, Denmark - Rosenborg Castle
06-Jul-08 Arhuus, Denmark - Raadhus Parken
08-Jul-08 Montreux, Switzerland - Montreux Jazz Festival
09-Jul-08 Lyon, France - Festival
10-Jul-08 Bruges, Belgium - Cactus
12-Jul-08 Amsterdam, Holland - Westerpark
16-Jul-08 Edinburgh, UK - Castle
17-Jul-08 London, UK - The 02 Arena
19-Jul-08 Lisbon, Portugal - Passeio Maritimo
20-Jul-08 Bennicasim, Spain - Festival
22-Jul-08 Nice, France - Jazz Festival
25-Jul-08 Lorrach, Germany - Stimmen Der Welt
27-Jul-08 Lucca, Italy - Summer Festival
29-Jul-08 Athens, Greece - Lykabettus Theatre update: dates not confirmed: Aug. 3: Ledbury, England (Big Chill)
Aug. 5-6: Istanbul (Arena)
Aug. 10: Prague (Castle)
Aug. 12: Budapest (Sziget)
Aug. 14-15: Girona, Spain (Cap Roig)
Aug. 28-29: Vienna (Opera House)
(The tour continues in August in Europe. More venues will be posted later). There is an advance booking for Toronto and Montreal! Have a look at these websites: http://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=10365 http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/ Damien Rice performed Hallelujah at Leonard Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aaHdeNN_ee0&feature=related
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
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Thu, Mar 13 2008, 10:10 AM
These new venues have been confirmed. Tickets available for the first 8 gigs see below at pre-sale before public on-sale.
May 11 - Fredericton, NB - Fredericton Playhouse - (ADT)
May 12 & 13 - Halifax, NS - Rebecca Cohn Auditorium - (ADT)
May 18 - Charlottetown, PE - Confederation Centre - (ADT)
May 20 - Glace Bay, NS - Savoy Theatre - (ADT)
May 23 - Moncton, NB - Capitol Theatre - (ADT)
May 26 - St. John’s, NL - Holy Heart Theatre - (NDT)
May 30 - Saguenay, QC - Auditorium Dufour - (ET)
June 2 - Kitchener, ON - Centre in the Square - (ET) Aug. 3: Ledbury, England (Big Chill)
ADVANCE BOOKING INFO AT http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/tour2008-2.html
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
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Sat, Mar 15 2008, 11:28 AM
Sorry Bluewater, but I don't know! The only thing I know, Leonard did the artwork of the tour poster by himself! He used to live many years in Greece on the island Hydra, maybe thus his affinity to greek iconographie. It's said that LC always was some kind of a "ladies man" but he seems to smile about this: “I got this rap as a kind of ladies' man, and as I say in one of the poems, it has caused me to laugh, when I think of all the lonely nights” . In his song Because of he wrote:
Because of a few songs
Wherein I spoke of their mystery,
Women have been
Exceptionally kind
to my old age.
They make a secret place
In their busy lives
And they take me there.
They become naked
In their different ways
and they say,
"Look at me, Leonard
Look at me one last time."
Then they bend over the bed
And cover me up
Like a baby that is shivering. The symbol below the naked woman LC used first for the artwork of his album Dear Heather. The two intertwining hearts representing David's star is a well-documented ancient Jewish image.  
http://www.webheights.net/dearheather/home.html http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/ P.S.: A new date for Toronto was added: Toronto: 08-Jun-08
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
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The Toronto Star published today this interesting article: The cult of Leonard Cohen His album output is sporadic and he hasn't toured in 15 years. So how does this music icon still command such undying devotion from his fans?
Mar 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 Idol, where a young man in dreadlocks sang "Hallelujah" two weeks ago, making the song a bestselling single in cyberspace 24 years after it was first recorded. Cohen is back, again. At 73, he's on tour for the first time in 15 years. His three shows – one of which was added to fulfill demand – at the Sony Centre June 6-8 are sold out. Premium orchestra seats are being auctioned at ticketmaster.ca. Bidding starts at $310. Rumours abound more shows may be added in other Southern Ontario cities. Cohen may be working because he has to – his former business manager allegedly siphoned $5 million from his personal accounts and investments, leaving him about $150,000 – but the reunion is no less sweet to longtime fans because of it. Aficionados like Anne Mitchell, 36, a University of Toronto administrator, have bought tickets to multiple shows. She plans to see him twice in Toronto and once in Montreal. "He seems to get the emotional truth down to me," she says by way of explaining her lifelong interest in Cohen's work. Cohen inspires devotion among people one doesn't typically associate with fandom – doctors and accountants, prison guards and high school principals. He works at it. Cohen donates unpublished poems, poems-in-progress, drawings and archival material – like his old student passport – to the Finnish accountant who runs a popular Leonard Cohen fan site on the Web. "This is his way to show some appreciation maybe, of all his loyal and longtime fans," says Jarkko Arjatsalo, founder of http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/. Cohen gave him the news of his tour and tour dates before he gave it to the press, so Arjatsalo could break the news on his website. Since then, traffic to the site has jumped from 1,000 to 10,000 visitors a day. Cohen first contacted Arjatsalo in 1997, two years after Arjatsalo launched leonardcohenfiles.com. At the time, Cohen was living at a Zen monastery, on Mount Baldy near Los Angeles, which had just got an Internet connection, says Arjatsalo. Cohen offered to contribute to the website. In 1999, he invited Arjatsalo and his wife and son to Los Angeles for a visit. "It was really exciting, of course. We were surprised to see how nice he is in real life. He's a very humble, friendly guy who wants to listen to what you have to say," says Arjatsalo. Cohen also met with the organizer of an annual Edmonton celebration of Cohen's September birthday, University of Alberta physician Kim Solez, 61. "He has the most interesting thoughts in the world," says Solez, who has had his own share of interesting thoughts – Solez established the standard by which kidney transplant biopsies are interpreted. A fan since coming to Canada in 1987 from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Solez is also organizing the bi-annual International Leonard Cohen fan event in Edmonton this summer – it has so far been held in Montreal, New York City, Berlin and Hydra, the Greek island where Cohen often lived. It is this kind of devotion that may help explain how the Montreal-born Cohen can spend years out of the spotlight, go years without releasing any new material, and still return to acclaim and honours. It helps, of course, that he has Dustin Hoffman-like looks, and his poems and songs so often deal with love and desire, half-mad women in rags and feathers enchanting men with oranges and tea; sex in the Chelsea Hotel. A year after news of his financial difficulty broke, he published a book of poems called Book of Longing. In March, 2006, Indigo Books president Heather Reisman declared it the No. 1 bestseller in the country, the first book of poetry in Canadian history to do so. In March, Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – his songs have been recorded by everyone from Bono to Billy Joel; "Hallelujah" has been on soundtracks including Shrek and the television series House. "He's our Bob Dylan, in a way," says Bryn Davies, 59, a retired high school principal in Burlington who is moved to tears at the thought of the excitement the concerts have generated among young fans who have never before seen Cohen perform. Davies plans to attend all three shows with his wife, Susan Eaton-Davies, 58, also a retired principal, who has her own reasons for attending. "He'll be a sexy 74-year-old," she says, laughing. Correctional officer Vernon Silver, 53, a married father of two stepchildren, will travel from Sault Ste. Marie to see Cohen this June. Silver has been a fan since he was 17 for this simple reason: "Leonard says the things I wish I could say when I talk to women." http://www.thestar.com/article/349798# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The loves of Leonard Cohen has had his share of romantic dalliances, although he never married. In addition to Janis Joplin, his name has been linked with starlets, artists and a madwoman or two. That he spent five years in a monastery makes this partial list all that more impressive. Suzanne Verdal: The muse said to be the inspiration for "Suzanne" was the wife of a sculptor friend when Cohen met her in Montreal. She now lives a bohemian lifestyle. Suzanne Elrod: Often mistakenly thought to have inspired "Suzanne," Elrod and Cohen have two children together. Rebecca De Mornay: The film star had a lengthy relationship with Cohen, 28 years her senior. There was even a rumoured engagement but the two broke it off in the early 1990s. Anjani Thomas: The Hawaii-raised Anjani, who goes by her first name professionally, was part of Cohen's concert band. The two have been together for nine years.
A modern Renaissance man
Leonard Cohen is arguably best known as a singer-songwriter, but the 73-year-old has worn many hats in his long and varied career. (And we're not just talking about his famous tweed cap.) Poet Cohen published his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, when he was just 22. His latest poetic foray, The Book of Longing, hit shelves last year. Novelist The 1960s experimental novel Beautiful Losers, which predates Cohen's success in music, was chosen as contender in CBC's Canada Reads 2005 contest. Music producer Cohen co-wrote and produced Blue Alert, a jazzy 2006 debut by Anjani, his former back-up keyboardist and vocalist and current companion. Visual artist Cohen surprised and delighted Luminato patrons when his hitherto private drawings premiered at the Drabinsky Gallery last June. Actor In addition to numerous appearances in documentaries and experimental films, Cohen also appeared in a 1986 episode of Miami Vice entitled "French Twist" as the character François Zolan.
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
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Wed, Mar 26 2008, 5:25 AM
nevermind: New tour dates added: 13.06.2008 Dublin, IMMA/Royal Hospital Kilmainham
30.08.2008 Berlin, Waldbuehne
Thanks for keeping us updated NM. Waldbuehne Berlin, the most beautiful venue I have ever been to. Managed to snatch some 7th row tickets center front block. 
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