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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:14 am Post subject: Leonard Cohen |
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I've heard this morning that Leonard Cohen is the latest to be welcomed upstairs by St Peter. I reckon that Ed Stewart, Sir Terry Wogan & Sir Jimmy Young will be playing his tracks on that great radio station up there! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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becky sharp
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6845
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FleetingEileenM
Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5784 Location: Hampshire
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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I probably need educating but to me Leonard Cohen = Bob Dylan = depressing songs and voices. Am I allowed not to think they are both wonderful?
No doubt I am missing the point of them somewhere along the line.
Don't be too hard on me, Cohen/Dylan fans |
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becky sharp
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6845
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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No education from me,Eileen..you either like something or you don't. |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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I'll always remember the time in 1974 when I was living in Leicester whilst studying at University when every Saturday afternoon my neighbour would insist on playing Leonard Cohen tracks at maximum volume usually with all the windows open so a friend of mine who was a superb engineer designed me a couple of huge box speakers and every Saturday afternoon at 2 pm we used to put on The Saturday Rock Show hosted by the great Alan 'Fluff' Freeman to drown the whole thing out
After a while my neighbour who was very straight laced - bless her soul - made an attempt to arrange a truce by inviting me round for a home made curry and I duly obliged by turning up there whereupon she spent the next two hours telling me everything any human being could possibly know about the great man
Mind you at least I can say the occasion produced one of the best examples of Beef Madras I have ever tasted _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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unclebuck
Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Warwickshire
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Terribly sad. I know quite a few people who are genuinely grieving at this news, like they have lost a friend or a family member.
In artistic/creative terms, easily the greatest loss of the year.
A huge influence on so many artists - particularly people like Nick Drake.
I agree that if you are someone who requires the music you listen to to be 'cheerful', then Leonards works will probably pass you by.
Sadly, you will miss some of the most beautiful music of the last 50 years. Ironically, you will also miss the gentle, wry, self-deprecating humour that underpins so much of his work.
'I was born like this, I had no choice - I was born with the gift of a golden voice.'
RIP Leonard, in the Tower of Song. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19372 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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becky sharp wrote: | No education from me,Eileen..you either like something or you don't. |
That's true Becky! I like a lot of Dylan but not Cohen.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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