Hamburg
So long, Leonard
From Thomas Andre
Cohen’s “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah” are among the most legendary Pop Songs. Now the musician has died
Hamburg. In his first official appearance as a musician, the folk singer Judy Collins, it tells Leonard was shaking foliage Cohen like a leaf. He made only the first verse of “Suzanne”, the Song, the listeners, in 1967, known only in the Version by Judy Collins. Briefly, remembers the artist, Cohen left the stage. He then came back and finished the Song in front of an enthusiastic audience.
That was half a century ago, and as the short insert in the New York Town Hall, the beginning of Cohen’s career, especially “Suzanne” of Song, which he gave to the world. A Song about a girl, a Song about desire and longing, x-times covered, in the candlelight, sang along; the Song of a Generation, and still a classic. A Cohen Song.
Why was he afraid of the first appearance? Why was he a few months later at a big Festival in Central Park, even in a state of panic, he should get out on the stage, Not the singer, he was at his own, very distinct Feel?
Because Leonard Cohen, born on 21. September 1934 in Montreal/Canada, although early on had learned to play the guitar but actually he was a writer. He had already published novels and several volumes of poetry, as he decided, mainly for lack of money, as the musicians perform. He wanted to earn money to be able to write books more. Cohen, the folk scene is headed at the Moment, she was in her fertile Phase, also, with regard to the marriage of Pop and poetry.
Cohen, the Scion of an influential entrepreneur, rich dynasty, was received by the audience of the counter-culture enthusiast. If Bob Dylan was the singer, the Poet, was Cohen the Poet, the singer, unforgettable Songs wrote. A lot of even more than Dylan, was the one who introduced the electric guitar into folk music, it was the job of the always suit – wearing Cohen, a counter-point to the rhythmic vigorous dance and beat music of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. As at the end of 1967 his first Album “The Songs of Leonard Cohen” in the shops, was also born for the Public, the melancholic, the Cohen had always been: a man who wrote about loss, guilt, fear, and love.
“Suzanne”, the hymn to the dancer Suzanne Verdal – Suzanne Elrod, the mother of his two children, met Cohen only in 1969 – is in addition to “Hallelujah” and “So long, Marianne,” his best-known song remained. Marianne Jensen, the companion of his Greek years of the beginning of the Sixties on the island of Hydra, is another famous Muse of Pop-history.
So little Cohen is thinking 14 Studio albums comprehensive range of pop music thanks to this method works without the melancholy, so little of the creative spirit of Cohen’s work without the women. In the Chelsea Hotel, where he lived at the beginning of his music career, met with Cohen to Janis Joplin. The affair in “Chelsea Hotel No. 2″, the best song line You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception is immortalized famous:””.
three weeks Ago, his new, his latest Album
The Remove from the objective, from the mere origin of things, was reflected in a record, the Cohen once a on Songs has said: “to Me, the idea that one writes a song, then goes on his way and no one will know who wrote it.” Three weeks ago, You Want It Darker, “an otherworldly song appeared in” dance, the legacy of Leonard Cohen. An old work from the middle to the end. “I’m ready to die,” he said in an Interview. In January, only David Bowie with “Blackstar has processed” his farewell to life artistically. He died shortly after the release. Now history is repeating itself. On his Facebook page it was announced in the night to Friday, the death of the great Leonard Cohen, whose voice was incomparable, when she sang the verses of Leonard Cohen’s, said: “it is With great sadness we share the news that the legendary Poet, Songwriter and artist Leonard Cohen has died”. He was 82 years old.
So long, Leonard.
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