Leonard Cohen to receive lifetime ahievements Awards @ next year's Grammys !

[Jesse Joe]

Leonard Cohen and Michael Jackson headline a group who will receive lifetime achievement awards from the Grammys next year.

Bobby Darin, David (Honeyboy) Edwards, Loretta Lynn, Andre Previn and Clark Terry will also receive the awards on Jan. 30, the night before the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.

[Jesse Joe]

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2326908

Hey Patti,

I really always did like his song "Suzanne" from late 60's early 70's. And these days it's "Hallelujah" which seems to be performed a lot by many different artists.

YouTube- Leonard Cohen - Suzanne (video clip)

I saw KD Lang last April in concert, and she sang it. She has a great voice & did receive a standing ovation for her performance of the song. I even saw some people with tears in their eyes.

YouTube- K.D. Lang sings Leonard Cohen's...

[Sydney Steve]

Well IMO the money song from Mr Cohen is "Anthem" and the big couplet within it being

" There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in "

Wisdom like that doesn't come along every day.

[Jesse Joe]

I must admit Sydney Steve that I dont know too many Leonard Cohen songs.

YouTube- Leonard Cohen - Anthem

[Sydney Steve]

Thanks for that link J.J.

I myself have been a HUGE fan for 30 years and know every single piece of work he has done intimately !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Yikes my nose ! It has gained a life of its own , growing madly, and I hear a booming voice saying " Stephen lies of that magnitude are not even acceptable on the Internet ! "

Correction: I myself am somewhat familiar with most of his work and have been a fan for 5 years and I have much of his poetry "...

Damn ...still my nose is headed for the computer screen and still the voice scolds " Stephen ! The truth !"

Oh well . Chances of bignoting self with little chance of being caught out dissipate.

OK. I was given his " Live In London " CD (highly recommended for like minded novices looking for an intro), by my Aunty last Christmas and know just a few other tracks having picked up another CD of his since .
I guess I know about as much of his work as I did of a certain GL when I first Googled "Gordon Lightfoot" with all the knowledge and backing of a "Summertime Dream" LP/CD and nothing else just 5 years back and stumbled across this website .

[Jesse Joe]

lol !

That nose must be back to normal by now eh Steve !

For me it's been Gordon Lightfoot since 1969 thinking I had to be the only real Lightfoot fan in the world...

Sure I was reading in Macleans Magazine that he was a millionaire many times over, who was playing sold out concerts all over the world & lived in a sprawling mansion in Rosedale & after asking people who had lived in Toronto about 'Rosedale,' they were telling me if he lives in Rosedale he's got money.

But still my brothers, sisters, people I knew in my area were looking @ me strangely when I mentioned Gordon Lightfoot, as if they were saying who ???

So my first concert that I saw of him in Halifax NS, @ Rebecca Cohn Auditorium was sold out as was the 2 other nights he was doing that fall weekend.

Well I thought all those people are @ the concert to experience this Canadian folk singer of the 60's who was known as the guy who wrote "Black Day In July," the song 'btw' that got me hooked to his music way back in 1969 after buying the LP "Did She Mention My Name" because that song was on it...

But as I was listening to these songs on that album, I knew right there that this singer was different. Great voice, 6 & 12 string guitars with Bass and what really got to me was on the back cover of the record I read every song written & composed by Gordon Lightfoot.

To me a singer was someone like Glen Campbell who could really sing them good, but they were written for him.

So way back then to me, this Gordon Lightfoot must have been some poet genius.

Not until I bought my first computer & found Corfid did I realised that I wasn't alone as a true loyal fan. {Lighthead !}

And to finish here Im happy to say my nose is still the same size...

[Patti]

YouTube- "Dance Me To The End of Love"...

Music video for Leonard Cohen's song "Dance Me To The End of Love" from his album "Various Positions.'

FINAL NOTE FROM THE MAN HIMSELF:

'Dance Me To The End Of Love' ... it's curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin," meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song -- it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity.

[jj]

YouTube- Air Farce Live: Cohen World Tour

[Jesse Joe]

Not bad at all... "then we take Moncton."

That was awesome to hear Patti!

[fezo]

Way back in 1974, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, I saw Leonard Cohen up at Symphony Hall in Boston. I lucked into this show. I was supposed to see him at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ but the show got canceled due to some contract issue. Anyway, bummed at that I go up with my then girlfriend to Boston to see my brothers and her roommate from her year at Northeastern up there. I spot a poster for the Cohen concert.

I call the Hall and it's sold out but I ask about possible availability. THe woman asks how many and I say tow of us. She says come and ask at the window. We'll have something you can buy. We ended up in the tenth row dead center.

It was one of the three best concerts I've ever been to. Kind of like God playing a guitar... Alternating with that deep mysticism of his and actual humor that I didn't expect at all. I can't remember how many encores. I know it was enough that he ran out of songs and so ended with what he had started with - Bird on a Wire.

I'm actually stunned that was the only time I saw him. Maybe I'm afraid you couldn't match that event.