LEONARD COHEN

[Nuggler]

Just caught a few minutes of an award show last night with Mr. Cohen being presented with.........an award :?: Don't even know what award; but his acceptance speech was notably brilliant.

Damn, he's one of Canada's best..Still remember "Susanne", the first? hit song, then "Bird on a Wire". He said last night, if he knew where all the hit songs came from, he'd go there more often....

Anyone else like him?/hate him? Canadian Icon?

:wink:

 

[missile]

Of course,he is an icon & our greatest living poet,too. His music and books belong in the collections of every single Canadian.

 

[cortez]

i like him
brilliant lyrics
he transends being canadian --hes a universal poet
Marriane-- is one of my favorites,,

the weirdest use of his music that i know of was as part of the sound track to Werner Herzogs film FATA MORGANA

 

[Haggis McBagpipe]

Cohen has been my favourite since about '68 when I first heard So Long Marianne at a friend's three-week party. My, that was a good party. I played that song over and over again for hours. Funny, that remains one of my all-time favourite songs, I'll never tire of listening ot it. In fact, I am listening to it ask we speak.

Cohen is decent, too, from all accounts, and honest. He isn't caught up in the celebrity crap. He lives very simply in a small-ish duplex, apparently, and his daughter lives in the other side. He is an amazing human.

 

[Conspiracy Theory]

He's one of our under appreciated Canadian artists, and the man truely is an artist. I love Closing time, he paints the gritty picture many of us have seen at the end of the night in the bar.

 

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