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You Want It Darker is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on October 21, 2016, by Columbia Records, 17 days before Cohen's death. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album was created at the end of his life and focuses on death, God, and humor.
"You Want It Darker" is a song by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen, released on September 21, 2016, Cohen's 82nd birthday. [1] It is the title track from Cohen's album You Want It Darker. [2] The song earned the artist a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and features the vocals of Cantor Gideon Zelermyer and Shaar Hashomayim Choir. [3]
The songs on the album comprise "sketches" left over from the sessions for Cohen's final studio album You Want It Darker that were finished by Cohen's son Adam Cohen in a "garage near his father's old house". [5] Regarding the tracks, Adam Cohen noted: "Had we had more time and had [Leonard] been more robust, we would have gotten to them.
From his first 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen to his elegiac 14 th studio and final album You Want it Darker in 2016, he sang about relationships, reflected on life, death, love, impermanence ...
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. [1]
Stranger Music is a 1993 book by Leonard Cohen.It compiles many of his published poems, as well as the lyrics to his songs.. In the "A Note On The Text" section of the book it states: In some sections of this book, certain poem titles and texts have been altered from their original publication.
Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985).It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited with Cohen as ...
The following month, Cohen's own version was issued on his debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen. Cohen wrote the song when staying at the Penn Terminal Hotel on 34th Street in New York City in 1966. He wrote: The room is too hot. I can't open the windows. I am in the midst of a bitter quarrel with a blonde woman.