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Jul 13, 2009 · Album Credits. Featuring Sharon Robinson. Producers Bob Johnston, John Lissauer, John Simon & 5 more. Writers David Campbell, Leonard Cohen & Sharon Robinson. Additional Production Steve Lindsey.
Nov 11, 2016 · The best from iconic singer-songwriter behind "Suzanne" and "Hallelujah". By Richard Gehr. November 11, 2016. Leonard Cohen, pictured in 1985, passed away at the age of 82.Rob Verhorst/Getty ...
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Closing Time (Official Video) Leonard Cohen. 5:57. Hallelujah (Audio) Leonard Cohen. 4:39. Best Leonard Cohen songs are curated in this music video playlist. Enjoy the greatest hits of Leonard Cohen in this playlist. Check out other playlists for audio videos, live performances, interviews and more...
- "Hallelujah" From: 'Various Positions' (1984) Unlike most things Cohen, this song is all but ubiquitous – seeming to appear in any television episode or movie scene meant to conjure #thefeels.
- "Suzanne" From: 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' (1967) Leonard Cohen, thanks to a lengthier history as a writer, arrived to music fully formed. Need proof? "Suzanne," the very first song on his very first album, is one of his best.
- "Famous Blue Raincoat" From: 'Songs of Love and Hate' (1971) This is far from the only time that Cohen dove into the tangled web of a love triangle, but his descriptive skills put "Famous Blue Raincoat" in its own league.
- "Bird on the Wire" From: 'Songs from a Room' (1969) A stripped-down plea for mercy, this brutally honest song is as raw boned as other great Cohen songs are lyrically ornate.
- "Suzanne"
- "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
- "Master Song"
- "Sisters of Mercy"
- "So Long, Marianne"
- "Bird on The Wire"
- "Joan of Arc"
- "Avalanche"
- "Famous Blue Raincoat"
- "Chelsea Hotel #2"
Cohen wrote his first single — featured on his debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen — as a tribute to a friend and muse named Suzanne Verdal, with whom Cohen struck up a relationship in Montreal in 1965. Singer-songwriter Judy Collins would release a version of this song in 1966, prior to Cohen, but it is the author's own version that remains definit...
Love ends for an unspoken reason in Cohen's ultimate "Goodbye" song. With gorgeous and aching resignation, he writes of a romance that came to "distances," created by forces as natural as the changes between "the shoreline and the sea." Cohen matched his gorgeous poetry to delicate acoustic guitar chords, inspiring covers by Roberta Flack and Judy ...
In a 1968 interview with the BBC, Cohen cryptically said of this song, "It's about the Trinity. Let's leave that to the scholars…it's about three people." More than four decades after its release, Cohen's fans are still parsing this song's twisty, narrative complexity, but perhaps some things — like the faith to which "Master Song" alludes — will f...
Cohen reportedly wrote this song in a single sitting — one of the few times he completed a tune so quickly. The story goes that he had invited two stranded female hitchhikers to stay in a hotel room with him. As the two slept, he penned this delicate ode to how inspiration can strike with the most random encounters. As for what transpired in the ho...
The song's subject was Marianne Ihlen, one of Cohen's most famous muses and with whom Cohen had a relationship in the '60s. In July 2016, Ihlen passed away due to leukemia and Cohen penned a touching tribute to his friend that read, in part, "I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, ...
Another Cohen tune that was initially recorded by Judy Collins, Cohen's sparse country tune is a soul-baring plea for redemption. The song cut so deep that Kris Kristofferson reportedly told Cohen he wanted the song's first lines — "Like a bird on the wire/Like a drunk in a midnight choir/I have tried in my way to be free" — stamped on his tombston...
Cohen was a man who never hurt for muses, but the exceptional reach and scope of this six-and-a-half-minute stunner from 1971's Songs of Love and Hate — conceived as a sort of farewell monologue for the young French martyr in the final moments of her life — seemed only fitting for the weight of its subject. (Though, German chanteuse Nico was also s...
A whirling weather system of syncopated guitar lines and raw lyricism, "Avalanche" is Cohen at his fiercely contained best. Only fellow prince of darkness Nick Cave was brave enough to attempt to cover it, on a 1984 Bad Seeds release. —L.G.
Does anything telegraph romantic desolation better than the opening line, "It's four in the morning, the end of December"? Framed as a Dear Judas letter to his rival in a love triangle and laced with both immortal phrases ("my brother, my killer") and oblique references to Scientology ("Did you ever go clear?"), "Raincoat" would go on to become one...
The bard was hardly at his most gallant in this gossip-generating touchstone. The lyrics kiss and tell about a real-life sexual liaison at the Chelsea Hotel between the singer and a star he later revealed to be Janis Joplin. "She wasn't looking for me. I think she was looking for Kris Kristofferson," Cohen once told an audience. "I was looking for ...
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Audio) Leonard Cohen. 2:59. Bird on the Wire. Leonard Cohen The Best Of Leonard Cohen. 3:25. A Thousand Kisses Deep (Audio) Leonard Cohen. 6:28.
Jun 4, 2018 · 98. James Brown – ‘Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine’. Songs about sex are very rarely that sexy themselves, falling down either on the side of awkward or icky. But ‘Sex Machine ...
