Leonard Cohen - Suzanne (Live in London)

[@folkandloredotbiz]

A legend. A teacher. A healer. A genius. A poet. A man. A masterpiece.

[@Blaze23557]

A Freemason…😅

[@julieberkowitz2750]

I had a dream or something between sleep and awake. I thought of this song which I had not heard for years. I knew every single word word. I got up turned on the television and there was Leonard cohen singing. It was an other worldly experience and didn’t leave me for days

[@joelwittenberg8295]

I was in California almost 60 years ago when first heard this. I was in a night club, asked the singer who wrote the song, she replied lenorad Cohen, it was sort of an epiphany. When I returned to Brooklyn NY I bought an LP with the song and some others of Leonard's, added to my collection of folk music. Many years later, my wife asked me if knew who wrote the song Suzanne. When I replied Leonard Cohen she was taken a back. How did you know that. We have a recording of the song in our collection. She said Cohen is appearing at Madison Square Garden, would you like to go. I said yes, and, even though we short on money, we bought the tickets. The Garden was nearly sold out, which surprised my wife. It was a great evening. When we got home we played the record. Then I played some of Cohen other songs. It was a wonderful evening. I am great fan of Cohen, besides Suzanne another of my favorites is Hallelujah. My ITunes library has multiple renditions of both. Even found a renditions of Hallelujah in Yiddish.and Russian among others. Hallelujah is one of the most popular songs in the world. Cohen was among the most prolific composers.

[@christinegrimes8839]

Fantastic

[@alanadair2367]

What a wonderful story and memory 👍

[@iancamlett574]

I honestly believe that Leonard Cohen is as close as mankind has ever got to personifying divinity. This song is the ultimate work of genius.

[@skovner]

And so many of his songs evoke various Divine motifs - Halleluyah, Who by Fire (a musical version of the Unanate Tokef High Holiday prayer), The Guests (life in G-ds world). He is an equal, or at least close, to King David and his psalms. At least a more approachable version, today.

[@amcmenemy5647]

No-one like him. A unique being.

[@PadriginHaddock]

Totally agree it is divine 🎉

[@mr__fahrenheit859]

Agreed. He was one of the greatest human beings ever lived. There will never be another one like him. May he Rest in Power.

[@LucyLouMinou]

There are really some more. Only a few others, bro. This biographical song is genius.

[@davidjme]

Leonard was a poet👍

[@foad4067]

RIP Leonard Cohen Canada greatest singer songwriter On September 3 1991 I named my daughter for this song Thank you

[@klaushyden7928]

Danke Leonard Cohen! Danke für die wunderbaren Lieder, danke für all die Autogramme, die ich bekommen habe! Ich werde sie immer in Ehren halten und mich lebenslang an den einzigartigen Liedern erfreuen! Ich ziehe den Hut! R.I.P. 🕊️🕊️🕊️ Klaus, Graz/Austria

[@nijemipromatrac5131]

I was blessed to hear him live. It was August 2. 2013, when he held his last performance in Croatia. An unforgettable concert was in Pula, in the old Roman Amphitheater. I still keep the ticket as a relic. ''Dear friends, I don't know when we will see each other again. That's why we'll do our best tonight'' - those are the words with which Leonard Cohen opened the concert.

[@Colistan42]

Few musicians transcend into pure art. I'd say, Leonard Cohen is one

[@ghostrider-ek8gu]

His words are unforgettable. A true genius .... forever

[@pas2933]

Just few notes in the intro are just enough to drive enormous emotion....

[@junerolon7950]

For me, if a song can be perfect, this is it.

[@coolx.]

Harvest moon and pink moon are pretty perfect if you like folk

[@jesussanz101]

Medicine music. Thank you Mr Cohen wherever you are.

[@corinnemurphy7278]

We boomers remember Mr. Cohen's magic and grace...that never faltered. 💝

[@ats94tg]

Maybe the greatest love song of all time.

[@nicoleleger2407]

MY greatest singer, voice and song for ever! 🎶😘❤️

[@DubiousPromedary]

Maybe this is not a love song... but who knows?

[@nicoleleger2407]

@@DubiousPromedary It's more a song about frienship! Leonard had for a Suzanne, very original, a little Bohemian life, hippy, he admired a lot, and wrote this marvellous hommage for her! Lucky lady! 🎶🇨🇵🗼

[@sharonuys8663]

Bee gees

[@AlexiGreco]

Suzan was a prostetute ..:))))

[@ballymahonst]

Love this so much , rest in peace , Leonard , you will never be forgotten ❤️🙏❤️

[@sispain]

The most beautiful singer songwriter

[@ashraykotian1]

That guitar intro which Cohen plays gives the song such a unique feel. For me this version stands on its own. Something about a man singing in his 70s this song that makes it incomparable.

[@1chienandalou]

Ashray Kotian I agree. Seeing these live was a highlight of my life.

[@craiglewis6145]

His voice in this version is sublime. Aged to perfection.

[@littlelulu4107]

@@1chienandalou I’m jealous...lucky you👍👍👍

[@gentianmiller2499]

I like thisversion most. The intrigue is captivating.

[@mollybeverly9805]

Cohen is GENIUS and was 😢

[@skombr]

Hvala za muziku.

[@augusta47]

I didn't think I'd ever get to see Cohen. Informative years for me with him and Dylan. He was too far away, then a monk and out of sight. And there he was at the Big Chill as the sun went down. Front row. Hallelujah

[@ludmilalazareva6287]

Thank you! Leonard Cohen - forever!

[@kylemcintyre4182]

I live in Montreal. It's truly surreal to look out my window as this song plays, and see Mount Royal, where this legend currently remains. The greatest memory I'll ever have is climbing that very mountain, stopping at the Kondiaronk Belvedere and behold the giant portrait of Mr. Cohen that stands watching over Crescent St.

[@rupertbeehsley1680]

I first heard this over a crystal radio and a mono earpiece which was tech in those days. I spent weeks trying to find it in the record stores and then it suddenly arrived everywhere. But I will never forget that first time I heard it, and now I am 72, it still affects me the same way.

[@tedfrisk4730]

Well then, we are the two who heard this song on a crystal radio Sir

[@Eidann63]

🌹

[@magnificentfailure2390]

For me, it was a little transistor radio I kept in a box to improve the bass. I'm 57 now, but I was 13 then.

[@Prospect.1]

He aged like fine wine ,, as u do kind Sir

[@Prospect.1]

@@magnificentfailure2390 same with me 57 ,,luv LC

[@frankstecker5675]

The great singer L. cohen .RIP..⚘️

[@HelgaRahlenbeck]

Ich liebe seine Band ❤❤❤

[@WalterHorn-e7e]

I love the Songs of Leonhard Cohen ❤ Wonderful ❤❤

[@timj6121]

I kind of wanted that to go on forever

[@olgabrennan2041]

This song is the epitome of my childhood memories of my father. I grew up listening to leonard cohen. Love you dad xx

[@elizabethtoomey3557]

Happy birthday, Leonard. You are missed!

[@fernandovelazquezsuarez4636]

A genius called Leonard Cohen

[@martinegidon]

J'ai 70 ans et je l'aime depuis que j'ai 16 ans, j'ai été très triste d'apprendre qu'il nous a quittés 😢!

[@MrSebboxxx]

So sensitive, poetic and pure ...

[@suzienada7253]

my dad always sang this song for me as a baby ♥

[@marchpierre-michel6058]

I had the chance to listen to Léonard Cohen at his beginnings, in a gymnasium at the University of Montpellier in 1969 or 1970 .... Then I never missed anything of his wonderful work as a songwriter!

[@dianecarbone5028]

I saw Suzanne in a poetry book I was reading and as I read I remembered it being a song in the 60’s. I discovered Leonard Cohen that day and it has been a part of me since.

[@johndelong1301]

Haunting me beautifully for almost 50 years.

[@Annoelle0404]

J'écoute cette chanson depuis mon adolescence et je l'aime toujours ❤

[@JTuaim]

A journey into the incredibly deep lonely places. Cohen just snatches my spirit along through the mud of my undefined memories. He leaves me homesick for somewhere I don't know. Suzanne leads us away from the illusion of the material into the illusion of spirit. So we look as crazy to her as she does to us.

[@annej9358]

Beautifully said 👏❤

[@StellavonThun]

Beautifully phrased!

[@mariacristinamartinez8635]

Cohen inolvidable❤❤❤

[@eliasmartinez4260]

Such an honesty in his voice in this performance. Even after all these years this version still sets a standard as the comments say.

[@peterfoerderer8224]

I just realized the spirituality of this song.

[@jilllucke7560]

Don’t know how I missed this song. A lyric masterpiece with such a poignant melody!

[@albertomiranda5704]

One of the great love songs, ever, although Suzanne Verdal was never his lover in fact, yet the song has a nostalgic tone of lost love. He must be feeling , at his age when he sang it, the time lost. Beautiful and unique.

[@dawnhaynes8090]

37 years ago I named my beautiful daughter after this song and now she is lost to me 😢

[@arron3623]

😢 sorry to hear that

[@lauramacdonald7465]

Not lost - just waiting to greet you again

[@suzannerondeau582]

I love so much this song from Leonard Kohen whit my name 😍

[@miriampeleau7562]

Un magnifique poete de notre temps ! Il reste dans notre âme

[@GabrieleScheunemann]

Ich habe ihn schon von Jugend an gehört, ich liebe ihn und war sehr traurig als er gestorben ist.

[@ananasparachute]

My daughter's middle name is after this song. I grew up with Cohen's music and have loved him since I can remember. Genius doesn't even begin to cover it..

[@irenewobido6308]

I'm 60 years young today. First time i heard this song, i was bout 20...🙏❤❤❤❤🙌🙌🙌... Still every here n now, in my heart always 👌👌👌

[@rxfloyd1]

I first heard this on late night radio (the original track) in the late 60's early 70's and it blew my young mind. It haunted me with the guitar and the lyrics and it still does. I'm 64 now, and I still turn this up and go away to another time and place when I listen to it.

[@fritzthecat3150]

I was living in residence at U of Toronto in 1971 and the guy in the room next to me had only one record and he played it relentlessly every night. He played Suzanne and then So long Marianne on and on. If it had been any other singer, I probably would have gone in and smashed his record, but those 2 Cohen songs were so good, I never got tired of listening to them and still enjoy them today, 50 years later.

[@Lynn55727]

I was listening to Leonard from about 2-4 am this morning when I couldn’t get back to sleep. I thought the volume was very low, but all of a sudden I could hear my neighbor upstairs. I got to thinking he was possibly ready to come down & choke me too. Earbuds might be in order tonight, or maybe or I’ll just buy him a cd & he’ll be enlightened.

[@SusanneRobertz]

I love it listen also to the great song of him too."to the boogie street"👍✨️🧚‍♀️✨️ another Susanne 😉

[@davidgriffin8482]

I just discovered him a couple of years ago and man after he had passed and He has influenced music all over the styles. He was also a wordsmith. A beautiful man. I heard David Gilmore do a little Leonard jam, and Sid Barret was a big Fan of his too.

[@Pdarksy]

This is one of those songs, that comes on the radio..... and you think who the hell is that, its just so captivating

[@paulashaw-sk1ek]

Woke up to this the best x

[@petejones879]

I loved this guy and his poetry put into song.. In the 1960s.. And now in 2023 I still do..

[@saptakghosh4073]

An absolute genius!

[@PursuingWisdomDaily]

Please tell me what is genius about him. I don’t mean to make you upset, I just don’t understand.

[@alecallew]

I love this song in so many ways ❤️😭

[@Eidann63]

🌹Me too.

[@ManpreetSingh-yf7bo]

This man's style of singing is magical

[@scotta9114]

Magical - yet eerie. I love his music. Seems like NO other.

[@abdullahalmamun4499]

You have always been her lover. Love burns you like a fever. It is an endeavor. O'Suzane, I love you forever.

[@paulkirkley1911]

This makes me sad. It’s a lovely song, gosh.

[@carstenm.1579]

The best version ever

[@sarasandfeldt-ceder6657]

The voice 😍 It's like listening to a bedtime story ❤

[@jeffmacarthur9722]

Born in Montreal like Mr. Cohen. So proud of him. A genius.

[@opylk]

Great song. It touches my deepest strings of mind.

[@sebastianmateus2893]

I was in Montreal last month and I always will remember seeing the Cohen’s face since Mont Royal. I really was happy, mainly because I was with the love of my live.

[@SuzanaGekovski]

Absolute masterpiece ❤

[@Prospect.1]

Spread his words near an far folks ,do not let his genius go away when we do

[@ferko923]

Simplemente maravillosa. Madrid 2024 (Majadahonda)

[@pascalmonfort9547]

Un homme que j'ai rarement vu dans ma vie m'a fait découvrir, cette chanson , Leonard Cohen... C était mon parrain... Rares furent nos rencontres ... Riches , elles furent !!! 🙏

[@SummeRain783]

His voice only got better with age. Amazing

[@marcoudabe8903]

Amazing but yes it's true, his voice is better with the age. More sensitive. Respects Mr poet, respects Mr Cohen.

[@thierryairaud9350]

Its magnifical the Best song to Leonard cohen

[@ВикторияХрусталева-ж3я]

🙏💥💥💥🙏🙏🌹

[@nikolaspareschi]

Marlboro power

[@cathydavis7622]

I wish I could have been live in London with Leonard, I have always loved this man's music. May we meet in Heaven, Live!

[@gfranconocillacoach]

Una canzone che ti lascia senza fiato, con l'anima ricolma di un sentimento mistico. "E proprio mentre stai per dirle che non hai amore da offrirle, lei ti porta sulla sua lunghezza d'onda e fa sì che il fiume ti risponda che da sempre siete amanti."

[@brigittebalimann5441]

He touches with this song not only my body, but my mind and my heart as well, I heard it the fiesta Time I was 17 and non I ´m 64 still touched by this Mélody

[@damienchristian8536]

he found you so young...perfect.

[@alves0andre]

One of the best concerts recorded ever..thanks for this

[@brianwillson9567]

such depth in the lyric-beautiful

[@sylviek7908]

J'aime tant cette voix chaude ,j'aime tant ce poète , j'aime tant cette chanson . Merci pour le partage passeur de poésie .

[@tonythetigerlongliverocknroll]

There are HEROS in the seaweed .... my fav line ... This guy was such a great songwriter ...

[@pedro-il7pn]

Es imposible ser tan de verdad como el. La compuso tocado y cantado miles de veces. La siguió cantado con infinita verdad en su voz y en su mirada, Paseaba los dedos por la cuerda como el día en que la compuso. Es arte en verdad.

[@mariannell]

Such a poem!

[@micheleabbas7101]

🌬🌬🕊Une ballade romantique, transcendante …..au delà des mots l’atmosphère entourant ces paroles , son interprétation est émotionnelle, caressant …. Encore Bravo pour ce chef d’œuvre 🕊💙🕊

[@burberryclaretred6676]

I studied English literature and my English professor had us read Canadian poetry and I discovered Suzanne in 1990 at UofT

[@SummeRain783]

Professor Gary Leonard?

[@burberryclaretred6676]

Patenall

[@burberryclaretred6676]

I forget the spelling

[@burberryclaretred6676]

Patenal

[@Chicago1963BurgerMansBlues]

I remeber the First time ❤️now I'm 75 ❤️ what beautiful time❤️❤️

[@liselottefrejdig1112]

Pure magic!!

[@AlbinGwiazda]

8-11-2016 gdy dowiedziałem się że Leonard zmarł, napisałem że najbardziej będzie mi brakowało Jego opowieści o Suzannne. Dobrze że tu w każdej chwili nostalgii mogę tego posłuchać. Dziękuję Mistrzu.

[@ceisiwrserith2224]

You can see Suzanne perfectly; he invokes her for us.

[@sarahlight956]

Wonderful Mr.Cohen🌻

[@SamSam-oe5kg]

Quand j'écoute Léonard Cohen je suis hypnotisé paix à son âme 🇩🇿

[@mauroberti7536]

I love this song

[@robertflint2549]

On this version he sounds pretty much like he has always sounded. Great longevity.

[@fsupergrimpeur3645]

Se promener le long du fleuve à Montréal… est toujours un moment émouvant, en imaginant que je suis près de chez Suzanne…

[@makinglovetofear]

Strikingly gorgeous. ✨

[@barrylehmann912]

What a legend

[@anniecaouren2355]

pourquoi n'étai s je pas a londres? je pleure..j'ai dédié cette chanson, il y a un mois, en hommage a ma tres chere tante suzanne, décédée a l'age de 90 ans, il y a juste un mois,,

[@alexandrebogdan1392]

RIP

[@SamSam-oe5kg]

Paix à son âme

[@viola.h3672]

SUPEEER!!! WONDERFUL MUSIC!!! 👉❤👈🎵🎵. Thank you Leonard!! 👍 Very good!! 🥰🥰🥰

[@artbargestudio]

It was not London..it was Kent......Paddock Wood......He was living in Kent for almost one year....before this concert.....This was the first performance after he got ripped off with music rights in the US....I should know because he told me all about it before this recording himself! He said to me: " I'm never 'gonna' come back at my age!" But his voice is even better than ever! Thank God he had the courage to come back and sort out all the legal problems with copyright and get on the stage again! Magnificent! He went on to make a new career and hit all the festivals,,,,,becoming more popular than ever before! Greatly loved and forever missed. Most especially by us in the UK where he made his home. RIP Leonard. xx

[@MarilynOrenstein]

Sisters of mercy

[@sgml5343]

One of a kind, a Master’s piece

[@Michelle-tp5lb]

what a incredible voice .. Master Cohen

[@christaparenteau9430]

A Canadian Icon 🇨🇦🇨🇦💕💕