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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]
Cohen also won the Canadian Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist in 1993 for The Future. In his acceptance speech, he quipped, "Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win Vocalist of the Year." [19] The music video for Cohen's song "Closing Time" also won the Juno Award for Best Music Video in 1993. [18]
Closing Time, a 1973 album by Tom Waits, or the title song "Closing Time" (Deacon Blue song), 1991 "Closing Time" (Hole song), 1993 "Closing Time" (Semisonic song), 1998 "Closing Time", a song by Leonard Cohen from The Future, 1992 "Closing Time", a song by Lyle Lovett from Lyle Lovett, 1986
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet who was active in music from 1967 until his death in 2016. Cohen released 14 studio albums and eight live albums during the course of a recording career lasting almost 50 years, throughout which he remained an active poet.
"Democracy" is a song by Canadian musician Leonard Cohen featuring Jeff Fisher, first released on Cohen's 1992 album The Future. [1] The lyrics discuss the failings and the promise of democracy in the United States. [2] The song was written approximately during the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led Cohen to question where democracy came from ...
On 3 August, Cohen gave an open-air show at the Piazza San Marco in Venice. The last concert of this leg was held in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 24 September, three days after Cohen's 75th birthday, at Ramat Gan Stadium. The 47,000 tickets for the Tel Aviv concert, Cohen's first performance in Israel since 1980, sold out in less than 24 hours.
New Skin for the Old Ceremony, released in 1974, is the fourth studio album by Leonard Cohen.On this album, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars, percussion and other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated (but nevertheless spare) sound.
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 ...