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For those who missed the news buried away in the famous person RIP thread, Leonard Cohen has passed away.
Too great a poet and songwriter to be lost in that thread, so a separate thread for vids of him, and any covers you think exceptional.
I will start with two of of my favs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfmiKnZi3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCpTi0EtbU
(and if you post vids, please delete the "s" to not screw up the thread).
Probably his best known. Covered by a lot of other artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q
With kids nowadays he's more known as a Kurt Cobain lyric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQC1MdDm8k
"Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally"
He left us an invaluable treasure of songs and I have difficulty to pick a favourite.
Leonard Cohen said his goodbye to us all with the album "You want it darker"
knowing that his time had come to an end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbjRTN3-jCg
No doubt in my mind about my favorite...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A
For those of us old enough to be on black and white a classic, I'm sure that line
all the WAY from China inspired me to wander to the mysterious east, first Bethnal Green then Austria and China in 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6zMPLcXZ8
Feeding me tea and oranges in July 1970, dropping mescalin and giggling my way along the wetlands of Athelney and the setting sun.
Life was so full of promise and then it turned to shit.
Not my favourite but one of many that I play occassionally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbbN_BnzA2A
I may get slayed for this cover. Hillary Clinton on SNL last Saturday night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZu64okmw8
She is gone...