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Leonard Cohen

NomadicAddick
NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
edited November 2016 in Not Sports Related
Has died aged 82
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  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    A Canadian icon - the whole country here will be in mourning :(
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    https://youtu.be/oIuCwnnDq8k


    RIP
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,047
    Released his last album only a few weeks ago, when he also said "I am ready to die, I hope it's not too uncomfortable. That's about it for me." Later said he was "exaggerating. I've always been into self dramatisation. I intend to live forever"

    His music & words certainly will. RIP.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Fuckin' 2016 man.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    The great Leonard, Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye RIP
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    "Hallelujah"

    RIP
  • Cafcspud
    Cafcspud Posts: 187
    edited November 2016
    https://youtu.be/cZI6EdnvH-8

    I don't Know how to embed a YouTube video. This is a video for So Long Marriane tho, my favourite.

    So Long Leonard
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    RIP
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842


    If it be your will
    That I speak no more
    And my voice be still
    As it was before
    I will speak no more
    I shall abide until
    I am spoken for
    If it be your will

    If it be your will
    That a voice be true
    From this broken hill
    I will sing to you
    From this broken hill
    All your praises they shall ring
    If it be your will
    To let me sing
    From this broken hill
    All your praises they shall ring
    If it be your will
    To let me sing

    If it be your will
    If there is a choice
    Let the rivers fill
    Let the hills rejoice
    Let your mercy spill
    On all these burning hearts in hell
    If it be your will
    To make us well

    And draw us near
    And bind us tight
    All your children here
    In their rags of light
    In our rags of light
    All dressed to kill
    And end this night
    If it be your will

    If it be your will.

    RIP my dear friend.
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,722
    Another good one gone. F*ck you 2016!
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  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,167
    One of my favourites forever. Goodbye Leonard. Getting the new album for my birthday in a few weeks. RIP. BBC link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37946654
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    So sad, brilliant poet and songwriter, his songs part of my life.Rest in Peace Leonard.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • mr.se7
    mr.se7 Posts: 272
    RIP

    Loved a select few of his songs
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Will never forget some wannabe off ShitFactory was being interviewed and come out with "this week I'm gonna be singing Hallelujah by ALEXANDRA BURKE". Before thaf I had a little deal with the Mrs that she could it as long as I could watch MOTD, but from the day on that programe has never been mentioned in this house, unless the mother in law is here and it's anything to keep her quiet. And MOTD in on on a Sunday morning anyway, which he Mrs never knew
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    RIP
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    Just terribly sad news.

    For all the fact that, in the '80s, a sure sign that a party was over was when the wannabe Goth in the room put on one of his records, Leonard Cohen was an absolute legend.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Suzanne. Say no more.

    RIP
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Very sad about this. So Long Marianne was a particular favourite of mine, also liked some of his later stuff - Slow in particular. RIP
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Sad news. There's a guy at work that sings Suzanne to me nearly every day when he sees me.

    RIP
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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    RIP
  • Norman_Smith
    Norman_Smith Posts: 338
    RIP
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    I knew this was coming as he had talked about it a couple of times this year, but I am still sad about this. His songs were deceptively simple, but all the better for it. He was recommended to me when I was 17 as people thought I was a bit of a miserable bastard and felt he would match but his songs are not depressing: he tempers the sadness of lost love with an appreciation of its beauty.
    Thanks Leonard.
    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    RIP

  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    RIP

    The music really will live on
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
    Laughing Len was introduced to me by legendary Croydon covers band Project X, with their excellent version of First we'll take Manhattan. RIP
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Sheesh.
    There is going to be some great big gig in the sky from the 2016 casualties.
    R I P Leonard.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    Was in Trafalgar Square and a busker played So Long MaryAnne yesterday. Very poignant for me as I lost a Friend last year called Mary Anne and I love Leonard Cohen's poetry and Music.
    So long Leonard. RIP.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Never was one man's torment, failed love affairs and general misery so eloquently expressed in song and verse R I P
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,032
    RIP

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