Leonard Cohen

Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of LEONARD COHEN’s Live Album ‘CAN’T FORGET: A SOUVENIR OF THE GRAND TOUR’ That Was Released 10 Years Ago Today

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12 May 2025

Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour is a live album by the late genial
songsmith LEONARD COHEN featuring live recordings from concerts and sound-
checks. The LP’s sound quality is top. And that front cover artwork is just cool.

AllMusic/Mark Deming said: “Cohen’s band, who have been consistently superb since he resumed touring, are in great form here, and generally sound a bit more spare and restrained, with fewer extended solos and a coolly blues-influenced feel on a pair of new tunes, “Never Gave Nobody Trouble” and “Got a Little Secret.” Good as his bandmates are, on Can’t Forget, Cohen is the star, and he’s as strong, as witty, and as willing to lay himself emotionally bare as ever; it’s anyone’s guess how much longer he intends to keep going, but there’s nothing here to suggest he needs or wants to quit now.”

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All COHEN Albums

Album Tracks That Should Have Been Singles – ‘ALMOST LIKE THE BLUES’ (2014) By LEONARD COHEN

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25 September 2024

Artist: LEONARD COHEN
September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016
Track: ALMOST LIKE THE BLUES

Album: Popular Problems
His 13th, released in 2014.

One of the best singers, songwriters,
crooners, whisperers of all time.

I saw some people starving
There was murder, there was rape
Their villages were burning
They were trying to escape
I couldn’t meet their glances
I was staring at my shoes
It was acid, it was tragic
It was almost like the blues

It was almost like the blues

I have to die a little
Between each murderous thought
And when I’m finished thinking
I have to die a lot
There’s torture and there’s killing
And there’s all my bad reviews
The war, the children missing
Lord, it’s almost like the blues
It’s almost like the blues

So I let my heart get frozen
To keep away the rot
My father says I’m chosen
My mother says I’m not
I listened to their story
Of the Gypsies and the Jews
It was good, it wasn’t boring
It was almost like the blues
It was almost like the blues

There is no God in heaven
And there is no Hell below
So says the great professor
Of all there is to know
But I’ve had the invitation
That a sinner can’t refuse
And it’s almost like salvation
It’s almost like the blues
It’s almost like the blues
Almost like the blues

Cohen: All Albums

LEONARD COHEN (Who Passed Away 6 Years Ago Today) With SUZANNE

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Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl

8 November 2022

Yes, it’s been already six years today since that singer-songwriter
giant LEONARD COHEN passed away, at the age of 82.

In memory here’s one of his most famous songs. SUZANNE (almost 110 million streams
on Spotify) was released as a single in 1967 – inspired by Cohen’s platonic relationship with dancer Suzanne Verdal – taken from his debut album Songs Of Leonard Cohen .

Studio original

Touching live version

COHEN: Bio – Discography

NORAH JONES Honors LEONARD COHEN With Soulful Cover And Eye-Catching Animated Video

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There are so many Leonard Cohen tribute albums already around and another one is
coming up on 11 November via the iconic jazz label Blue Note (in business since 1939).

HERE IT IS: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN will feature covers of 12 of his countless pearls performed by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop, James Taylor and Mavis Staples.

American songstress and grand voice Norah Jones is also part of the tribute. She delivers a soulful interpretation of Steer Your Way. A characteristic bluesy Cohen reverie from
his final longplayer You Want It Darker.

Listen and enjoy the eye-catching video clip.

Cohen’s original

NORAH JONES: Facebook
BLUE NOTE: Website

PJ HARVEY Covers LEONARD COHEN

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21 August 2022

Fabulous songstress PJ HARVEY shared her cover
of the LEONARD COHEN musing WHO BY FIRE.

It’ll feature on the soundtrack for a new dark
comedy/thriller series, named Bad Sisters
for Apple TV+

The late genial Cohen wrote/recorded the song in
1974 for his album New Skin for the Old Ceremony.

PJ Harvey: “It was a very enjoyable day spent recording the version of Leonard Cohen’s
“Who By Fire” for Bad Sisters. I had spoken to Sharon Horgan in advance of the recording session, so I understood why she felt the song’s lyric was so perfect for the series, but also understood what nuances of Leonard’s performance she most loved, and therefore what
to try and recapture but in my own way.”

PJ


COHEN

PJ HARVEY: Facebook

(Image on top: cover of her album ‘Demos – To Bring You My Love’)

UNCUT MAGAZINE’s Ultimate LEONARD COHEN Guide Out Now

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13 August 2022

Uncut Magazine: “Hallelujah! With a new film and greatest hits set about to arrive, we
celebrate the work of music’s greatest poet in our 148-page deluxe, Ultimate Music Guide.”

You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info here

He was a tower of an artist. R.I.P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUUZsS29qMA August August

LEONARD COHEN Passed Away 5 Years Ago Today

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Three top tracks from the past, from top artists from the past

7 November 2021

The genial singer-songwriter was born in Westmount, Montreal on 21 September 1934.
He passed away in Los Angeles, Californië on, 7 November 2016, today 5 years ago.
He was 82.

Cohen started his brilliant artistic career as a writer – poetry and novels – in 1954,
but disappointed after years without any success he decided to start writing music.

His debut album Songs Of Leonard Cohen came out in 1967. His 15th and final LP Thanks For The Dance was released posthumously, in 2019, 3 years after his death.

1-2-3 top tracks to remember the unforgettable luminary
(hard job to pick just three, as he wrote countless top songs)…

– TOWER OF SONG –
(Notable live version)

– LOVER LOVER LOVER –

– HALLELUJAH

R.I.P. legend.

I’ll have Cohen on my
earphones all day long…

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LEONARD COHEN: All Albums