A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist

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anonymousiam• 3 years ago

One of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVYvkovIvc

marginalia_nu3• 3 years ago

The entire discography is great. I really like his final stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FesS3D-7o1g

FpUser• 3 years ago

Wonderful artist. Have every album of his in my collection.

marginalia_nu3• 3 years ago

It's really weird. He's one of few artists whose songs consistently get better the more you listen to them. It's like you need a few passes to even begin to appreciate how brilliant they are.

zabzonk2• 3 years ago

the partisan song has been running through my head, as these things will, for the past several days:

I have changed my name so often

I've lost my wife and children

But I have many friends

And some of them are with me

goldfeld• 3 years ago

And so prettily rendered with french lyrics!

zabzonk2• 3 years ago

one of the (many) things i like about cohen's songs is the backing girl singers. anyone that likes cohen should check out the "famous blue raincoat" album by Jennifer Warnes.

bentlegen• 3 years ago

I am not a particular fan of Cohen’s music, but as far as humans go, I think he led a fascinating life. He was a poet, a novelist, a singer/songwriter … and he found success (and failure) multiple times at very different stages of his life.

I recently watched “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” (2022), and would recommend it as a starting place to anyone who’s at least vaguely familiar with the titular song.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7600742/

rcme• 3 years ago

I watched Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love a few years ago. His life was certainly interesting, but he didn’t seem like a great person. Letting a young child in your care take psychedelics out a bad taste in my mouth.

nhatcher• 3 years ago

I am a big fan of Cohen and I normally try to stay away from the personal life of my favourite artist. But this acceptance speech talks heaps of the kind of person he was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnx20BZquAo&ab_channel=cdgr0...

Measure that against Bob Dylan's show on the Nobel prize.

Disclaimer: I am an even bigger Dylan's fan.

mikrl• 3 years ago

There is a giant portrait of him as an older artist on the side of a building downtown Montreal.

You can see it pretty well from the mountain looking S.E.

IIRC a good spot was the Ave Du Museé at the top of the stairs to Pine.

jacquesm2• 3 years ago

That doesn't say much. There is also one with Celine Dion... If there is one thing I'm grateful for after moving back to NL it is that I no longer have to endure Celine Dion 3 times every hour wherever there is a radio playing.

marginalia_nu3• 3 years ago

Her heart will have to go on without you listening.

asimovfan• 3 years ago

He was also a Rinzai Zen priest. Probably an important bit about his life. Takes a lot of effort.

antfarm• 3 years ago

Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

Directed by Donald Brittain & Don Owen - 1965 | 44 min

https://www.nfb.ca/film/ladies_and_gentlemen_mr_leonard_cohe...

A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist

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