[Magdalen] Leonard Cohen +RIP+

[Jon Egger]

I purchased "You want it darker" from iTunes and it is one amazing CD. Well
worth it!

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> May he rest in peace.
>
> Leonard Cohen is one of those artists whose names are known to me but
> for whatever reason I've never gotten to know their music. I'd list
> them, but y'all would be disgusted.
>
> Last night the BBC World Service made me aware that "Bird on a Wire"
> is his, and I've only ever heard it badly sung by Edina Monsoon in
> Absolutely Fabulous. I did learn a lot about his life in the detailed
> report I heard.
>
> Again, R.I.P.
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Marion Thompson
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I shed my first tears of the day with this news on the front page of
> both my
> > morning papers.  Being a Montrealer, he was especially 'mine'.  I
> remember
> > back in the Fifties when we frequented a Hungarian-revolution era coffee
> > shop, there'd be a buzz -- "Lenny's here!  Lenny's here!"
> >
> > And now his prescient song  "You want it darker" "I'm ready, my Lord" is
> > play.ing on CBC.  I'm deeply afffected.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/10/2016 9:04 PM, Jon Egger wrote:
> >>
> >> I just read that LC has died.  There are no words.
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>



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