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Initially, Hammond had Cohen work up guitar parts for "Master Song" and "Sisters of Mercy" with jazz bassist Willie Ruff, and then brought in some of New York's top session musicians to join them, a move that made Cohen nervous; as biographer Anthony Reynolds observes in his book Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life, the dynamic between Cohen and Ruff had been intimate and natural but "the arrival ...
Leonard Norman Cohen was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the Montreal anglophone enclave of Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934.His Lithuanian Jewish mother, Marsha ("Masha") Klonitsky (1905–1978), [3] [4] emigrated to Canada in 1927 and was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline.
The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band formed in Leeds in 1980. [6] After achieving early underground fame, the band experienced a commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s, sustaining their success until the early 1990s, when they halted the release of new records in protest against their record company, WEA .
Adam Cohen and The Webb Sisters, "So Long, Marianne" k.d. lang, "Hallelujah" Intermission Shaar Hashomayim Choir with pre-recorded videos of: Willie Nelson, Céline Dion, Peter Gabriel and Chris Martin and archival footage of Leonard Cohen, "Tower of Song" Sting, "Sisters of Mercy" Lana Del Rey and Adam Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel #2"
The album title derived from the Leonard Cohen song "Teachers", from the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen, which was a staple live cover for the band throughout its career. The full line is: "Some girls wander by mistake / Into the mess that scalpels make".
The Essential Leonard Cohen is a career-spanning collection of Leonard Cohen songs released in 2002. It is part of Sony's The Essential series. The songs are arranged in chronological order; all studio albums released before 2002 are represented, except the 1977 album Death of a Ladies' Man. All tracks were digitally remastered by Leonard Cohen ...
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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.