Leonard and his band performed at the famed Austin City Limits on Halloween night, 1988. The performance proved to be one of the program’s most popular broadcasts.
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On this day in 2009, Leonard performed at Coachella. LA Weekly: “Last night Cohen's tattered vocal cords and smoke-stained throat delivered "Hallelujah" as only the creator of the song could…”
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“Please Don’t Pass Me By (A Disgrace)”
"But I promise you, friends, that you're gonna be singing this song. May not be tonight, may not be tomorrow, but one day, you'll be on your knees. And I want you to know the words when the time comes.”
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“I wish women would hurry up & take over. It’s going to happen, so let’s get it over with. Then we can finally recognize that women really are the minds, & the force that holds everything together, & men really are the gossips & artists.”
Photo: Cohen & Marianne’s son Axel from Hesthamar's book
Leonard Cohen’s Manager Cleared of Financial Wrongdoing After 10-Day Trial
Leonard Cohen’s manager has been exonerated of claims of financial wrongdoing following a 10-day trial in probate court. Cohen, the Canadian songwriter and poet, died in 2016 at the age of 82. His children, Ada…
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For anyone interested in reading it, here is the entire Report and Recommendation.
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Robert Kory vindicated in lawsuit filed by Cohen's children.
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By @Naturalphilosy on X:
“Recognize that your struggle & your suffering is the same as everyone else's, I think that's the beginning of a responsible life. Otherwise, we are in a continual savage battle with each other with no possible solution, political, social, or spiritual.” — Leonard Cohen
Thanks to Jack Whatley at Far Out Magazine for pointing us to this fabulous rare song youtube compilation, The Other Songs of Leonard Cohen.
The Other Songs of Leonard Cohen: youtu.be/-KPPQJrr-0s?...
“And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife”
--“Famous Blue Raincoat”
Video from Live in Dublin
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"An enlightened cannibal is still a cannibal."
Leonard Cohen’s response to Phoebe Hoban, New Yorker Magazine, when asked if he was finally happy now that his life-long depression had lifted, May 14, 2006. Photographer unknown.
Sometimes you just need to bury yourself in Leonard. Check out this bootleg. Leonard Live at Casino Barriere de Montreux from 1976. The amazing Laura Brannigan ("Gloria!") provided the backing vocals along with Cheryl Barnes.
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On this day 30 years ago, the documentary Leonard Cohen: Spring 1996 was released on Norwegian television. Directed by Armelle Brusq, the film provides an in-depth look at Leonard’s life on Mt. Baldy and his efforts to keep the music flowing.
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Leonard: “When the center can no longer defend itself, a kind of centrifugal force drives people into extreme positions, which are generally oversimplified. If we can’t identify with a visionary position of brotherhood, of commonality, we’re flung to the periphery, where we can...
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...identify with things like white, black, Jewish, Christian, man, woman. And these ideas can become very seductive, even for people of refined intelligence.”
From “First, He’s a Poet” by Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press, June 21, 1993. Photo by Bruce Weber/Rolling Stone
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Patrick Leonard posted about his time with Leonard Cohen on Instagram: "From 2010 to 2016 I sat in a little room at Leonard‘s house, writing songs and being friends. This is the first song we wrote. The work we did was simple and humble..."
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“To truly understand the song, you have to look at the original and look towards the long-lost and never recorded ‘Chelsea Hotel’…”
Listen to “Chelsea Hotel #1”
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“[T]he key to the song is that this is a mournful commemoration specifically of Joplin, written after her death and grappling with the fact that her loss hit Cohen hard despite them realistically barely knowing each other…
Listen to 'Chelsea Hotel #2'
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Far Out Magazine: “After one of his most emotional laments that not only remembered Janis Joplin but memorialised an entire scene, [Cohen] suddenly tried to be nonchalant, singing, ‘That’s all, I don’t even think of you that often’…
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I remember Leonard saying once he preferred the Rolling Stones.
"Then fire, make your body cold,
I'm going to give you mine to hold,"
saying this she climbed inside
to be his one, to be his only bride.
--"Joan Of Arc," Songs Of Love And Hate.
Leonard Cohen & Julie Christensen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a30...
Shown: Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry. Photo by Rick Friedman/Kennedy Library Foundation.
Feb 26 2012:
Leonard Cohen & Chuck Berry received the Award for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence from PEN New England. Cohen thanked the jury & paid homage to Berry:
“If Beethoven hadn’t rolled over, there would have been no room for any of us. All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry.”
Photo by Alfred Steffen.
Leonard on women: “[W]hat I care most about is whether or not I’m being welcomed by her & I think a lot of the time she worries about whether she is being welcomed by me. So we are each other’s content & we exist in that condition, which goes all the way from grave discomfort to absolute peace...”
COHEN: “All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry,” Cohen once said, adding in 2010, “If Beethoven hadn’t rolled over, there’d be no room for any of us”.
“Don’t ever let an older member of society tell you that... musicians should stay away from politics. The very foundation of rock music... was founded on the ideals that music was more than just reverberations in the air; they were vibrations in our souls...”
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“1967 Classic Ranked Among ‘Best Rock Breakup Albums’ of All Time” by Nina Derwin, Parade, February 14, 2026.
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“Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows”
-- “The Old Revolution” by Leonard Cohen from Songs From A Room
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