He knew, of course. And he has said this as well. Because of the great Poet must Express great truths, if you you feel. “Lord, I’m ready”, she sings, no: speaking of Leonard Cohen on his last Album that is already created as a legacy. This summer, he wrote to his old Muse, Marianne Ihlen (“So Long, Marianne”), a Mail that was read to her on the death bed: “Now it is come so far that our bodies fall apart. And I think I’m going to follow you soon. Know that I am so close behind you that you can touch my Hand if you reach out your Hand.”
With a Rock had Cohen never something in the hat, in the world of Pop, he was in the eighties, rather Accidentally (click here to read a selection of his most important Songs). In fact, he inhabited since the sixties, the highest Plateau of the Folk – the same writers of the century, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon entitled, in addition to the two other major Jewish song. Musically, he is frequently mentioned in the same breath, as a personality, but he outshone both of them.
“I was born in a suit”
he is Born in July 1934 in Montreal, where his parents are from Lithuania, had emigrated. His mother, Masha, was the daughter of a famous Rabbi, and introduces her son to the piano and the clarinet. It is the assets of the prematurely deceased father, Nathan is exempt, the Cohen of all the financial Worries to a large extent. In his youth, he appears to be Proust as a figure from the work of Marcel. A little Prince wants to make the nanny with hypnosis submissive. And a dreamer from the age of 13, learning the poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by heart.
In a letter to a possible publisher of the young Poet sketches his potential audience, reinvents it’s self, all of the “introverted adolescents, lovers in all stages of anguish, disappointed Platonists, consumers of pornography, monks and the Pope-loyal, French-canadian intellectuals, unpublished writers, curious musicians”.
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Leonard Cohen: a pair of handles enough
decades later, he is told at the award ceremony of the Prince of Asturias prize, as he came to the guitar. A vagrant is a Spanish musician, taught him in Montreal a couple of handles before he hanged himself. And more than these few grips, Cohen, non-controlling, he still is. They satisfied.
While he was with his first critically acclaimed volumes of poetry (“Let Us Compare Mythologies” in 1956) too young to be a Beat-Poet apply. To artist parties, he struck a few chords of his poems – including, by the way, with “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong”, perhaps the most touching love song of all time.
The folk singer Judy Collins interpreted soon after Cohen’s “Suzanne”. Collins the Cohen on 30 it was also. To push April 1966, his first Gig on the stage. It was a concert against the war in Vietnam. The music does not match the Hippie movement, of the type in his elegant suits. For this, he was too old. “Darling,” he informed, later, his biographer Sylvie Simmons: “I was born in a suit.”
As an anti-cyclical phenomenon, Cohen follows his own star. He buys a house on the Greek island of Hydra, where he learns the Norwegian tourist Marianne know. He published more plates and maintains flamboyante Affairs, from Joni Mitchell to Janis Joplin. He makes his fling with Joplin in the explicit “Chelsea Hotel#2″ sings of and to the public, this indiscretion of the Gentleman will regret to the last.
whirlpool
Packed Seven years after he stood against the Vietnam war on the stage, it draws the Poet all of a sudden to the Front. While John Lennon dreams, there would be “nothing to kill or die for,” Cohen as an outpatient troops carers during the entire Yom-Kippur-war in 1973 to eight concerts a day, sometimes even during the battles. He will later make much fuss about it and its role in the Song “Field Commander Cohen” even ironic. Nevertheless, he didn’t want to “as a Jew to the Jews,” help, a historic photo shows him in the open shirt under Israeli soldiers, next to Ariel Sharon.
artistically, he finds also in the seventies, no place, he chooses between the two poles of that Era, the radically Excessive, and the radically Reduced, the deadly middle ground and finally to the legendary producer Phil Spector, not ruined it with his infamous “Wall of Sound” from the brass and choirs, just the Album “Death Of A Ladies Man”. Cohen, drinks, smokes chain-drinks “all pools” of Whisky, Smoking Opium, taking Mandrax and snorts Amphetamine. Him of the whirlpool’s Packed, there’s nothing<./p>
As he returned in 1984 with “Various Positions”, the Album will be published first in the United States. The record company has lost Faith in the over-the-hill Barden. In fact, it is a time, in the Cohen conceivable is uncool. Who was once shot by tea lights and scented candles, its dark sensibility, took him, this sensitivity is now evil.
dark shiny late work
contrary to expectations, Cohen, who adapted his Sound gently the eighties experienced, with Songs like “Hallelujah” or “First We Take Manhattan” (with Jennifer Warnes) his second or third spring (See below for a selection of famous “Hallelujah”Cover-versions). in terms of Content, he remains its weighty themes of loyalty, sings in a grave voice about Lust, love and death. After him in 1992 with “The Future” is a work of prophetic gloom succeeds and the critics, too, listen to it again, it disappears.
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Even in old age, Old
As a simple monk, he spends the following years in a Buddhist monastery in Los Angeles. He escapes to a world in which his art is becoming more and more important, he even missed always painful. The end of the rapture comes abruptly, as a Cohen, 2004 needs to realize that a Manager has betrayed him. Be bankrupt taking care of him a little, additional tax claims threaten him existentially.
latest Album, “You Want It Darker” by Leonard Cohen
And so he descends from his mountain, down like a friendly Zarathustra, to give a few concerts, and surprise, of Triumph Triumph in hastily, and from the own popularity, to be dark take brilliant late work. Even in old age, Cohen is quite Old in the suit, the eye-to-eye with the last things and be able to tell with a kind of Nonchalance, as you are the only Enlightened application.
And then, at a press conference for the release of “You Want It Darker” a month ago, he has taken everything back. As he said on his walking stick for support, and quietly in the lap, smiling like a benevolent grandfather, dispelling the legitimate Concerns of his children and grandchildren with the usual joke: “I exaggerated. I was always prone to self-dramatization. My intention is to live forever.”
he will.
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