[Magdalen] Leonard Cohen +RIP+

[Jay Weigel]

Most of Cohen's songs were better sung or better known by other artists. No
shame in that.

One of my friends who lives in Tennessee was nanny to Cohen's children in
the Greek islands during the peripatetic days of her youth in the '60s. I
imagine she is in deep mourning.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Bird on a Wire is a lovely song, Scott. if it's done well. I first heard it
> and still think of it as sung by Rita Coolidge. Heavenly voice and Cohen's
> sublime lyrics.
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:01 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
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
> Christopher Hart
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