LEONARD COHEN

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Merci Bridget

Je crois que c'est la seule chancon qu'il n'avait pas ecrit lui meme. Il l'avait trouve quand il etait en colonie de vacance.

Cette version est tres interessante, avec l'oud "le luth arab".

NB : video supprimée par l'utilisateur

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Après une absence scènique de 15 années et devant un petit public de 3000 fervents de tous âges, rassemblés là comme à une cérémonie religieuse, le dandy canadien est réapparu hier soir sur les berges du Léman, accompagnée de ses fidèles, le guitariste Javier Mas et 5 autres musiciens, son accompagnatrice Sharon Robinson et 3 choristes.

Leonard Cohen est la preuve vivante que Jacques Brel pouvait se tromper, lui qui avançait l'idée selon laquelle la musique n'était pas le meilleur vecteur pour la parole poétique, en ce qu'elle la contraignait ...

Avant tout, Leonard Cohen est un poète, un romantique manieur de mots, qu'il met en musique.
Et c'est pour cette communion-là que le public était rassemblé hier soir à Montreux. Ce partage d'une intensité si rare qui inclut le monde entier avec tous ses heurts, ses abîmes et ses cieux dans la seule parole d'un homme de 73 ans, à l'élégance surannée, à la voix si grave, qui déroule inlassablement la vie mise en mots, tout simplement, qu'il sert d'une musicalité exceptionnelle tant elle est épurée, surtout en live.

Les paroles de Leonard Cohen ... très difficile de les traduire ... on serait presque tenté de s'en tenir à une simple littéralité tant le sens n'est pas toujours appréhendable dès l'abord ... et pourtant ce serait si réducteur. J'ai trouvé des traductions réalisées par Graeme Allwright, anglophone de naissance devenu francophone, dont les textes français ont été agréés par Leonard Cohen lui-même. Même s'ils sont parfois éloignés des mots anglais, je pense que les siens ont un sens qui se rapproche de l'esprit que l'auteur comptait leur donner.

Vous trouverez dans la playlist qui suit une grande partie des titres interprétés hier soir. J'ai privilégié le choix de versions live quand je l'ai pu car le seul reproche que je ferai peut-être à Leonard Cohen est d'avoir trop souvent cédé, en matière d'orchestration, à la mode du moment auquel il chantait ... c'est ainsi trop souvent à mon goût on se retrouve avec des versions très seventies, noyées de synthés et de choeurs qui alourdissent des compositions qui se seraient contentées d'une formation plus réduite ...

Hier soir Leonard Cohen a touché au coeur le public suisse, venu à la dernière, sans doute, rencontre d'un poète un peu halluciné, d'un moine zen qui s'élève dans des cieux qui nous sont à peu près inaccessibles. Son oeuvre est immense : des romans, des recueils de poésie, dont certains controversés comme le célèbre "Flowers for Hitler" (1964), et des centaines de chansons ...

Leonard Cohen sera à l'Olympia les 24, 25 et 26 novembre prochains. Ne manquez pas sa venue.

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LEONARD COHEN : WORLD TOUR 2008-2009

Découvrez Leonard Cohen!

THE PACIFIC TOUR

20-Jan-09 Wellington, New Zealand TSB Bank Arena
22-Jan-09 Auckland, New Zealand Vector Arena
24-Jan-09 Yarra Valley, Australia Rochfords Wines
26-Jan-09 Adelaide, Australia Leconfield Winery
28-Jan-09 Sydney, Australia Sydney Entertainment Centre
31-Jan-09 Hunter Valley, Australia Bimbadgen Estate
1-Feb-09 Bowral, Australia Centennial Vineyards
3-Feb-09 Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre
5-Feb-09 Melbourne, Australia Rod Laver Arena
7-Feb-09 Swan Valley, Australia Sandalford Wines

THE FALL TOUR

21-Sept-08 Bucharest, Rumania Arcul de Triumf
24, 25-Sept-08 Vienna, Austria Konzerthaus
27-Sept-08 Prag, The Czech Republic HC Sparta
29-Sept-08 Wroclaw, Poland Hala Ludowa
1-Oct-08Warsaw, Poland Torwar
4-Oct-08 Berlin, Germany o2-World
6-Oct-08 Munich, Germany Olympiahalle
10-Oct-08 Helsinki, Finland Hartwall Arena
12-Oct-08 Gothenburg, Sweden Scandinavium
15-Oct-08 Stockholm, Sweden Globen
17-Oct-08 Copenhagen, Denmark Forum
19, 20-Oct-08 Brussels, Belgium Forest National
23-Oct-08 Milan, Italy Teatro Degli Arcimboldi
25-Oct-08 Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstadion

27-Oct-08 Geneva, Switzerland Arena Geneva
29-Oct-08 Frankfurt, Germany Festhalle
31-Oct-08 Hamburg, Germany Color Line Arena
2-Nov-08 Oberhausen, Germany König-Pilsener-Arena
3-Nov-08 Rotterdam Ahay
5, 6-Nov-08 Glasgow, UK Clyde Auditorium
8-Nov-08 Cardiff, UK Arena
11-Nov-08 Bournemouth, UK Bic
13, 14-Nov-08 London, UK O2 Arena
17, 18-Nov-08 London, UK Royal Albert Hall
22-Nov-08 Birmingham, UK NEC
24, 25, 26-Nov-08 Paris, France Olympia
28-Nov-08 Brighton, UK Centre
30-Nov-08 Manchester, UK MENA Arena

THE SUMMER TOUR

11-May-08 Fredericton, NB, Canada Fredericton Playhouse
12, 13, 15, 16, 17-May-08 Halifax, NS, Canada Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
18-May-08 Charlottetown, PE, Canada Confederation centre
20, 21-May-08 Glace Bay, NS, Canada Savoy Theatre
23-May-08 Moncton, NB, Canada Capitol Theatre
25, 26, 27-May-08St. John's, NL, Canada Holy Heart Theatre
30, 31-May-08 Saguenay, QC, Canada Auditorium Dufour
02-June-08 Kitchener, ON, Canada Centre in the Square
03, 04-June-08 Hamilton, ON, Canada Hamilton Place Theatre
06, 07, 08, 09-Jun-08 Toronto, Canada Sony Centre For The Performing Arts
13, 14, 15-Jun-08 Dublin, Ireland IMMA/Royal Hospital Kilmainham
17, 18, 19, 20-Jun-08 Manchester, UK Opera House
23, 24, 25-Jun-08 Montreal, Canada Montreal Jazz Festival / Place des Arts
29-Jun-08 Glastonbury, UK Glastonbury Festival
01-Jul-08 Oslo, Norway Bislett Stadium
03-Jul-08 Helsingborg, Sweden Sofiero Slott
05-Jul-08 Copenhagen, Denmark Rosenborg Castle
06-Jul-08 Arhuus, Denmark Raadhus Parken
08-Jul-08 Montreux, Switzerland Montreux Jazz Festival
09-Jul-08 Lyon, France Festival de Fourvieres

10-Jul-08 Bruges, Belgium Minnewater Park/Cactus
12-Jul-08 Amsterdam, Holland Westerpark
16-Jul-08 Edinburgh, UK Castle

17-Jul-08 London, UK The 02 Arena
19-Jul-08 Lisbon, Portugal Passeio Maritimo
20-Jul-08 Benicassim, Spain FIB Heineken Festival
22-Jul-08 Nice, France Jazz Festival
25-Jul-08 Lorrach, Germany Stimmen Der Welt
27-Jul-08 Lucca, Italy Summer Festival
28-Jul-08 Rome, Italy Auditorium Parco della Musica
30-Jul-08Athens, Greece Terra Vibe
3-Aug-08 Ledbury, UK Big Chill Festival

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THE 2008 TOUR BAND AND CREW

Photos by Eija & Jarkko Arjatsalo, Barbara Mayer & Dustin Rabin

Roscoe Beck
Musical Director Bass, background Vocals

Musician/Producer Roscoe Beck has had a long association with Leonard Cohen beginning with his work on the Recent Songs album in 1979 and continuing on the 1979/1980 tours.
In 1986 Roscoe and Jennifer Warnes co-produced their highly acclaimed collection of Leonard Cohen songs: Famous Blue Raincoat. Soon came another collaboration with Leonard on the I’m Your Man CD, and a stint as musical director, assembling the band for Leonard’s 1988 I’m Your Man tour.

Roscoe has recorded, produced and toured with many others; artists as diverse as Eric Johnson, Robben Ford and the Dixie Chicks (onstage for the infamous 2003 tour that produced the film Shut Up and Sing.) Recently released, Walk On (AusTone Records) is Roscoe’s first recording as a solo artist. Fender Musical Instruments has honored Roscoe with the release of two Roscoe Beck signature basses.

Website: www.roscoebeck.com

Neil Larsen
Keyboard, accordion, brass instruments

Neil Larsen is a composer/keyboard player from Florida that has been successful in several different fields. As a recording artist, he has recorded four solo albums, one of which was nominated for a Grammy. As a session musician, Neil Larsen has played on over 150 albums. He has also written over 60 songs on various albums.

Website: www.straightaheadrecords.com

Bob Metzger
Guitar, steel guitar & vocal

Bob Metzger has appeared in concert with many international artists, including Leonard Cohen in the 1988 and 1993 tour. Bob plays six intruments and is featured on recordings by many different artists. He lives in Boston. Bob was also a special guest at our New York Event in 2004.

Javier Mas
Bandurria, laud, archilaud and 12 string guitar

Javier Mas was born in Zaragoza, Spain and began playing the bandurria at the age of nine. At twelve, he was playing drums and the 12 string guitar. Composer and producer, he has worked all over the world, and recorded and toured with many artists and groups. He also performed and was musical director at the Leonard Cohen tribute concerts in 2006 and 2007 in Spain, "Acords amb Leonard Cohen".

Website: MySpace

Rafael Gayol
Drums & percussion

Rafael Gayol is a drummer/percussionist, singer/songwriter, photographer and has acted in a few film and television productions. Born in Mexico City and raised in Los Angeles, his break came with a brief stint in Italy with Robbie Robertson opening the door to many blessings with artists A-ha, Bodeans, Charlie Sexton and Tito Larriva to name only a few.
His influences range from film composer John Barry to Brian Eno and Massive Attack. 'Ambient Pop' has been a genre listeners have linked his music to.

Dino Soldo
Keyboard, saxophone, wind instruments & vocal

Growing up in La Verne, California with sons of local orange growers, Dino Soldo was encouraged by his parents to start guitar lessons at age five—which were followed shortly thereafter by years on clarinet.

Like his idol, Buster Keaton, Dino Soldo makes everything physical seem effortless. The Keatonesque hat he dons is a trademark part of the image he cuts every time he hits the stage. Dino has been seeking the perfect balance between ensembling with superstars and sharing his own solo artistry with the world.

Website: www.dinosoldo.com/

Sharon Robinson
Vocals

A native Californian, Sharon grew up in Los Angeles, studied classical piano with Ethel Newman, and majored in music at California Institute of the Arts.
While touring with Cohen in ’79 and ’80, Sharon and Leonard collaborated for the first time on the song, Summertime, later recorded by both Diana Ross and Roberta Flack.
Their collaboration went on to produce such songs as Waiting for the Miracle and Everybody Knows. A Grammy award-winner for her writing contribution on Patti LaBelle’s New Attitude, Sharon’s songs have been recorded by such artists as the Pointer Sisters, Aaron Neville, the Temptations, Randy Crawford, Brenda Russell, Ute Lemper, Don Henley, and jazz vocalists Vanessa Rubin and Carl Anderson.

Her newest collaborations with Leonard Cohen can be heard on Cohen's recent albums "Dear Heather" and "Ten New Songs"

Website: www.sharonrobinsonmusic.com/

The Webb Sisters
Vocals

The Webb Sisters are a musical duo comprised of the siblings Charley and Hattie Webb. They were born in Kent, UK, and had early on decided on a career in music. Hattie played the harp, and Charley the piano.

When they were teenagers, the pair began to give recitals all over the country. They met Johnny Pierce, a record producer who invited to Nashville, where they recorded their debut album, A Piece of Mind.
After six months, they went to California, selling the album between performances at various recitals. They were soon found and offered a publishing deal, and shortly after, a record deal, and they began to create an album, Daylight Crossing. Two years later they returned to the UK, where they were discovered by Mercury Records, and they recorded Daylight Crossing.

Website: www.thewebbsistersmusic.com/

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Setlist:

Dance Me to the End of Love
The Future
Ain't No Cure for Love
Bird on the Wire
Everybody Knows
In My Secret Life
Who by Fire
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
Anthem

Intermission

Tower of Song
Suzanne
The Gypsy's Wife
Boogie Street
Hallelujah
Democracy
I'm Your Man
Take This Waltz

Encore #1:
So Long, Marianne
First We Take Manhattan
Sisters of Mercy
If It Be Your Will
Closing Time

Encore #2:
I Tried to Leave You
Wither Thou Goest....++++++

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If It Be Your Will

If it be your will
That I speak no more
And my voice be still
As it was before
I will speak no more
I shall abide until
I am spoken for
If it be your will

If it be your will
That a voice be true
From this broken hill
I will sing to you
From this broken hill
All your praises they shall ring
If it be your will
To let me sing
From this broken hill
All your praises they shall ring
If it be your will
To let me sing

If it be your will
If there is a choice
Let the rivers fill
Let the hills rejoice
Let your mercy spill
On all these burning hearts in hell
If it be your will
To make us well

And draw us near
And bind us tight
All your children here
In their rags of light
In our rags of light
All dressed to kill
And end this night
If it be your will

If it be your will.

Copyright © 1985 Leonard Cohen
and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company

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Everybody Knows

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows

Copyright © 1988 Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson
and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company

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Suzanne

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

Tower Of Song

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song

I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the Tower of Song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they don't let a woman kill you
Not in the Tower of Song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song

Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song

Copyright © 1988 Leonard Cohen
and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company

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Famous Blue Raincoat Songs Of Love And Hate (1971)

It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all thru the evening.
I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now I hope you're keeping some kind of a record

Yes and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

The last time we saw you, you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
You came home alone without Lili Marlene.
And you treated my woman to flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife

Well, I see you there with a rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well, I see Jane's awake
She sends her regards.

And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possiby say
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.
If you ever come by here for Jane or for me
Well, your enemie is sleeping and your woman is free

Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of you hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Sincerely, L. Cohen.

Copyright © 1971 Leonard Cohen
and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company

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Jeudi 27 Novembre 2008
Leonard Cohen, chapeau bas

Par Eric MANDEL
leJDD.fr
Leonard Cohen, chapeau bas

Après quinze ans d'absence, Leonard Cohen, le poète et songwriter de Montréal était à Paris dans le cadre d'une tournée mondiale débutée en juin dernier.

Trois concerts étaient programmés à l'Olympia devant un public complètement acquis à la cause du créateur de Suzanne. Trois heures de pur bonheur.

Quinze ans! Léonard Cohen ne s'était pas produit sur une scène parisienne depuis quinze ans.

Une éternité? C'est dire si le retour du songwriter canadien, en concert à l'Olympia de lundi à mercredi dernier, constituait un évènement à marquer d'une pierre blanche pour son public -parmi lequel François Fillon, mercredi soir- venu en masse (les trois dates étaient complètes depuis belle lurette) pour voir son idole à la voix de basse envoûtante. Et ce malgré les prix prohibitifs -entre 95 et 161 euros.

L'artiste n'avait d'ailleurs fait aucun mystère des motivations de ce come-back, forcément nostalgique puisque sans nouvel album à défendre, le précédent, Ten new songs remonte déjà à 2001.

Ruiné par sa manageuse (elle l'a escroqué de cinq millions d'euros), le chanteur devait renflouer les caisses après une longue période d'inactivité dédiée à la méditation (de 1993 à 1999) dans un monastère bouddhiste de Los Angeles.

"Back to business", en somme. Contraint et forcé, mais Léonard Cohen s'impose comme un artiste trop intègre, sincère et viscéral pour se retrouver taxé de simple cachetonneur.

Un moment de paix

Il suffisait de le voir arriver sur scène, d'un léger pas de footing pour deviner le plaisir du créateur de Suzanne.

Impression confirmée durant le concert. Durant près de trois heures, Leonard Cohen, silhouette fine et voûtée d'ascète, va livrer un concert d'une grande classe, généreux et sans fausse note.

Sur la scène recouverte de tapis anciens, neuf musiciens d'une élégance irréprochable (vestimentaire et musicale), livrent un écrin feutré, plein de caractère, idéal pour accompagner la voix unique du maître.

En complet noir et chapeau de feutre sur la tête, il revisite trente ans de carrière, soit une impressionnante collection de classiques intemporels entre hymnes à l'amour salvateur ou destructeur (I'm your man, Dance me to the end of love), odes spirituelles (Hallelujiah, chantée à genoux), poésie à capella (Thousand kisses deep), jeux de séduction et chroniques sociopolitiques.

Certaines trouvent d'ailleurs une résonance avec l'actualité.

Comment ne pas rapprocher Everybody knows -et son couplet "the poor stay poor and the rich get rich"- de l'actuelle tourmente financière. Sans oublier Democracy is comin to the USA, trois semaines après l'élection de Barack Obama.

Mais l'artiste évite soigneusement les grands discours. Sinon pour saluer son public (au bout d'une heure) et faire le point avec humour sur son absence prolongée ("Ces 16 dernières années, j'ai pris beaucoup de Prozac").

A 74 ans, l'homme affiche une étonnante humilité, jamais feinte. Il faut le voir tirer son chapeau bas à ses musiciens quand ils exécutent un solo, remercier son public pour ce "moment de paix dans une période de chaos et de crise".

Le concert se terminera, après un ultime rappel, avec une chanson de circonstance, comme un aveu d'impuissance: I tried to leave you (J'ai essayé de te quitter). En vain?

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Le 9 Décembre sortira en DVD le film documentaire , réalisé par Lian Lunson en 2005 sur l'auteur, poète et chanteur

canadien Leonard Cohen : I'm Your Man

Le film, réalisé par Lian Lunson en 2005, associe des extraits d'un concert hommage organisé par Hal Willner et intitulé Came So Far From Beauty, qui eut lieu en janvier 2005 au Sydney Opera House de Sydney en Australie, à une série d'interviews réalisés avec Leonard Cohen.

Au cours de ces entretiens, Leonard Cohen parle de son enfance à Montréal, de sa manière d'approcher le métier d'écrivain. Il relate ses souvenirs au Chelsea Hotel à New York, parle de son séjour dans un monastère et de son amitié pour un maître zen Japonais. Il parle aussi de l'épouse du sculpteur québécois Armand Vaillancourt, qui fut l'inspiration pour Suzanne, une de ses plus célèbres chansons. Il fait aussi la lecture de la préface qu'il écrivit pour la traduction chinoise de Beautiful Losers.

On voit dans le documentaire plusieurs performances ou extraits de performances, notamment celles de Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker du groupe Pulp, Kate et Anna McGarrigle. Tous ces artistes parlent de l'influence qu'à eu Leonard Cohen sur leur vie et leur carrière. On voit aussi le guitariste The Edge et le chanteur Bono de U2, qui interprètent vers la fin du documentaire la pièce Tower of Songs en compagnie de Cohen. Cette dernière prestation fut filmée à New York le 20 mai 2005.

Le documentaire contient des images de Leonard Cohen enfant, filmé sur Super 8. Aussi, les dessins, agrémentés de poème, que l'on aperçoit dans le film sont des œuvres de Cohen lui-même.

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man fut présenté au Festival du film de Toronto en 2005, puis en 2006 au festival de Sundance et au Festival du film de Berlin.

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Un moment unique : A thousand of kisses deep , le poème version finale , récité

Léonard Cohen Paris Olympia 26/11/2008

A Thousand Kisses Deep / Ten New Songs (Oct. 2001)

Texte d'origine :
A thousand kisses deep

You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat.
You´d have live alone to know
How good that feels, how sweet.
Anonymous, and hard, and fast -
(I´d know you in my sleep) -
Then born together, born at last
A thousand kisses deep.

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat.
I´m just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet,
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second-hand physique -
With all he is, and all he was
A thousand kisses deep.

All soaked in sex, and pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
We made it to the forward deck
I blessed our remnant fleet -
And then consented to be wrecked
A thousand kisses deep.

It´s true that you could lie to me
It´s true you could to cheat
The means no longer guarantee
The virtue in deceit.
That truth is bent, that beauty spent,
That style is obsolete -
O since the Holy Spirit went
A thousand kisses deep.

(So what about this inner Light
That´s boundless and unique?
I´m slouching through another night
A thousand kisses deep.)

I´m turning tricks; I´m getting fixed,
I´m back on Boogie Street.
I tried to quit the business -
Hey, I´m lazy and I´m weak.
But sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go
A thousand kisses deep.

(And fragrant is the thought of you,
The file is now complete -
Except what we forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep.)

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it´s done -
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it´s real
A thousand kisses deep.

(I jammed with Diz and Dante -
I did not have their sweep -
But once or twice, they let me play
A thousand kisses deep.)

And I´m still working with the wine,
Still dancing cheek to cheek.
The band is playing "Auld Lang Syne" -
The heart will not retreat.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep -
Your ditch it all to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep.

And now you are the Angel Death
And now the Paraclete;
Now you are the Quickening Breath
And now the Belsen heap.
No turning from the threat of love,
No acrobatic leap -
As witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep

Copyright : Leonard Cohen, 1998.
Unrecorded song posted with Leonard's permission.
All rights reserved.

Copyright 2001 Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company.

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Leonard Cohen, Live in London

Cinq ans après son album studio Dear Heather et une tournée mondiale en 2008, dont trois concerts à l'Olympia à Paris, en novembre dernier, Leonard Cohen revient sur le devant de la scène le 31 mars prochain avec un CD/DVD baptisé Live in London . Cet album a été enregistré lors d'un concert le 17 juillet 2008 à l'O2 Arena de Londres. L'auteur de Suzanne et de So long Marianne est remonté sur scène le 19 février 2009 au Beacon Theatre de New York, soit 15 ans après sa dernière apparition aux États-Unis. Leonard Cohen fait aujourd'hui partie des rares chanteurs à avoir été intronisé au Panthéon du rock.
Date de sortie : 31/03/09
Label : Sony BMG
Site du label : www.sonybmg.fr
Site officiel de l'artiste : www.leonardcohen.com

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Leonard Cohen revient en France

Le bon vieux Léo a du apprécier ses concerts à l'Olympia en novembre dernier : il revient pour trois dates en juillet.

par Thomas Burge les inrocks

"Rare sur scène", comme on dit, Leonard Cohen est tout de même sorti de sa retraite en novembre dernier pour trois dates marquantes à l'Olympia. Qui lui ont sans doute plutôt plu : le Canadien vient d'annoncer trois nouvelles dates en juillet prochain, qui cette fois ne concerneront pas que Paris.

Il passera ainsi le 6 juillet au Zénith de Nantes, le lendemain dans le gros POPB parisien, puis le 9 au Zénith de Toulouse.

Les places sont mises en pré-vente aujourd'hui mercredi à cette adresse -les salles ont beau être plantureuses, il faudra sans doute se dépêcher pour pécho son précieux sésame.

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