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Leonard Cohen News

Bono calls Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' the 'most perfect song in the world'

The U2 frontman has heaped praise upon the oft-covered track

  • Dec 24, 2012

Leonard Cohen announces new O2 Arena date

Canadian singer played Wembley Arena twice in 2012

  • Dec 11, 2012

Leonard Cohen brings 'Old Ideas' to London's Wembley Arena

The iconic songwriter apologises to the crowd for the change of venue from Hop Farm in Kent

  • Sep 9, 2012

Leonard Cohen's Hop Farm shows move to Wembley Arena

The legendary singer-songwriter will now play in London on September 8 and 9

  • Aug 24, 2012

Leonard Cohen announces a second UK show for September – ticket details

Singer will play a second Day At Hop Farm show later this year

  • May 17, 2012

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Leonard Cohen Music Videos

Closing Time Play Video

Closing Time

Official music video for the track Closing Time by Leonard Cohen.

First We Take Manhattan Play Video

First We Take Manhattan

Official music video for the track First We Take Manhattan by Leonard Cohen.

Suzanne (from "Live At The Isle of Wight 1970") Play Video

Suzanne (from "Live At The Isle of Wight 1970")

Official music video for the track Suzanne (from "Live At The Isle of Wight 1970") by Leonard Cohen.

Hallelujah Play Video

Hallelujah

Official music video for the track Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.

In My Secret Life Play Video

In My Secret Life

Official music video for the track In My Secret Life by Leonard Cohen.

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Leonard Cohen Reviews

Leonard Cohen - 'Old Ideas'

Leonard Cohen - 'Old Ideas'

Cohen has lost none of his passion

  • Jan 27, 2012

Leonard Cohen - 'Show Me The Place'

A return of his molasses-thick voice

  • Dec 6, 2011

Festival International De Benicassim

Ah yes, the Spanish festival with guaranteed sun that’s a stone’s throw from the beach. Bliss. Castello De La Plana, Spain (July 17-20)

  • Aug 1, 2008

Cohen, Leonard : Ten New Songs

King of misery returns from monastry with synthesizer.

  • Oct 16, 2001

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Leonard Cohen Biography

Leonard Norman Cohen, (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011 Cohen received a Prince of Asturias Award for literature.

The critic Bruce Eder wrote an assessment of Cohen's overall career in popular music, writing, "[Cohen is] one of the most fascinating and enigmatic ... singer/songwriters of the late '60s ... [and] has retained an audience across four decades of music-making ... Second only to Bob Dylan (and perhaps Paul Simon) [in terms of influence], he commands the attention of critics and younger musicians more firmly than any other musical figure from the 1960s who is still working at the outset of the 21st century."

The Academy of American Poets has commented more broadly on Cohen's overall career in the arts, including his work as a poet, novelist, and songwriter, stating that "[Cohen's] successful blending of poetry, fiction, and music is made most clear in Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, published in 1993, which gathered more than two hundred of Cohen's poems ... several novel excerpts, and almost sixty song lyrics ... While it may seem to some that Leonard Cohen departed from the literary in pursuit of the musical, his fans continue to embrace him as a Renaissance man who straddles the elusive artistic borderlines."

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