Short feature on Leonard Cohen by John Archer. Shown on BBC in 1988.
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@photent12 жыл бұрын
lol "we didn't know it was the 60's then, we just thought it was ordinary time" Fantastic
@conniebreines17253 жыл бұрын
Probably right about 60's..I say that but many of us did think we were having a special time at during a different time and place. It was a feeling I had at least that it was my duty to be FREE!
@fhiosat012 жыл бұрын
I disagree. I love his voice, it has so much character and soul.
@weedelfur111 жыл бұрын
The interviewer doesn't deserve to even interview this great man.He is so insulting at the end. Leonard Cohen is not just lyrics, his voice is like velvet. The most important singer and songwriter of our time and for many more generations to come. He is a role model for what mankind should stand for with his truth, humility and kindness.
@Esther_is_my_name3 ай бұрын
yes, Leonard points out that life is not "sunshine and lollipops"...hello world, wake up...embrace everything...including your "feewings". They are seasons of LIFE..I hate that people automatically assume Leonard's music is "depressing"... IT ISN'T, it's called life. It's called "not everything goes MY WAY"...and we share in this. if you cannot harness your emotions, thats your problem, not LEONARDS. I LOVE Leonards music, it's fantastic and it gives me a great deal of JOY listening to it. He's REAL and isn't afraid to say it! That's fantastic...yet rare these days, unfortunately.
@sameoldthing40375 жыл бұрын
Every one of his albums is a totally different mood. I have an album of his for my every mood! ❤
@blakeaaron56987 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot for sharing this, I love hearing his stories and anecdotes.
@caramcdo11 жыл бұрын
It's funny how both Cohen and Bob Dylan's voices are often criticised. It is not about the voice. This is shown as they not only write amazing music, but are in my opinion the greatest songwriters of all time. If they had beautiful voices, that may have taken away the magic in their music.
@nickk86508 ай бұрын
Leonard cohen (particularly young cohen) has maybe the best singing voice I’ve ever heard, a silky nasal tone balance by deep bass. Maybe not a great singer technically but I don’t think there’s many I’d rather hear sing.
@Esther_is_my_name3 ай бұрын
He was who he was, and that's alright by me. Who cares that a true poet, here and there, sung off key. Like Daniel, in a den, with a buncha roaring wannabe's, He was who he was, and thats alright by me. (in other words, I agree) Cheers!
@onlylexus9 жыл бұрын
Before I shuttle off this mortal coil I wish that I could get to meet my old mate Leonard Cohen, I would like that and I can drink his red wine while we talk, I have no better wish than this, brother to brother.
@asanga739 жыл бұрын
same here mate . love this guy
@robertpettit34752 жыл бұрын
The one and only great Leonard Cohen....we will never forgot him.
@martinsmith5007 жыл бұрын
we didn't know it was the sixties then we was just thought it was ordinary time
@AFord19815 жыл бұрын
Just an amazing line to casually toss out there. What a man.
@maxwellfan558 жыл бұрын
I too, noted the mild, yet gracious irritation from LC when the subject of suicide/depression in relation to his music was introduced. Personally I have NEVER related this myth to what I hear from Cohen, and also become tired when this mocking tone is mentioned, especially among musician friends. What I hear from his sensitive, cleverly constructed songs is this. Beauty. And his are some of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. So we are blessed to have them. Leonard, if you ever get to read this, I played So Long Marianne to an audience the night she died. Only hearing the news weeks afterwards. I understand she heard your words. Some in a little corner of England heard your music.
@AFord19815 жыл бұрын
Leonard Cohen's music makes life seem full of meaning and beauty. Quite the opposite of encouraging suicide.
@thedolphin54283 жыл бұрын
In the late 60s, when I was 15 and learning folk music on guitar, we used to call LC's work as "music to commit suicide to". At that age, who wanted such sad ballads.
@maxwellfan553 жыл бұрын
@@thedolphin5428 Well that's the futile "mock something to get a laugh" mentality I don't adhere to regards Cohen. Plus, it's all so boring, superficial, and easy. Most do it so I just turn a cheek, preferring to enjoy the intimate and wonderful melodies. If you took notice, Cohen's repertoire covers everything from happiness to melancholy, brutal to kind, love to hate, war to peace, romance to disaffection. All things relevant to mankind, and the public loved him for it In the late 60's when I was the same age as you, learning guitar, the culture I recognised was one where we listened, became interested and tolerant of all kinds of music. My friends and I immersed ourselves in all the new and wonderful sounds being created, from Indian to Caribbean, classical to pop, blues to traditional folk, jazz to country. I guess you and I are different.
@thedolphin54283 жыл бұрын
@@maxwellfan55 Go fuck yourself you preachy idiot. I've actually loved Leonard Cohen for decades since. I was not mocking him. I was simply relating my impressions of *50 years ago* (when I was a pop and rock adherent) as per THE ACTUAL TOPIC OF THIS THREAD and not insinuating any critique of his subsequent work. Go on, be a man and apologise for jumping to a stupid false presumption. Think before you type.
@maxwellfan553 жыл бұрын
@@thedolphin5428 As I suspected and now proved right. Your words, hostility and bullying tone do not match my generation, nor that of Leonard Cohen who you are unlikely ever to appreciate. Others will judge you on this, but as far as further dialogue, forget it. Take your anger elsewhere, learn some self control, and find your God.
@shermanvermin7611 жыл бұрын
Happy 79th birthday Leonard!
@sameoldthing40375 жыл бұрын
I've heard that before about less anxiety as you age, I'm 56 and STILL WAITING.
@treintjefop11 жыл бұрын
This is just a part of the whole interview! is there more?
@kidcharlemagne72387 жыл бұрын
"Polynesian restaurant in Miami Beach", P R E C I O U S !!
@arthursid112911 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your vatic utterances.
@Zhawq11 жыл бұрын
I always thought women found Cohen attractive, so it surprises me to hear this unless it was a one-time incident with Joplin who was known to be tough speaking. "Poetry is women's natural language". That's an interesting notion. It's true it obviously connects with something in them that is different from how men think. I also think we naturally change how we talk when we talk to women. It's not possible to fully distinguish what you say from who you say it to, that's just a fact of life.
@UnknownDnB12 жыл бұрын
Bless his heart. No he hasn't been married..Close
@mariellegrass-singing58814 жыл бұрын
The quintessential elegent man.....
@frankrault31904 жыл бұрын
The prick and the gentleman. No need to explain myself.
@bigpole10012 жыл бұрын
"Yes about a hundred thousand cigarettes depper" Classic !
@arricammarques19552 жыл бұрын
Leonard honesty and erudite intelligence are dearly missed.
@victoria_atmosphere92904 жыл бұрын
I don't see morose or morbidity, I feel eroticism and deep sensuality.
@halhal20611 жыл бұрын
I hate this interview except the Leonard Cohen parts, he was splendid. i feel like the interviewer is mocking him.
@conniebreines17253 жыл бұрын
Yes
@stefansoos45197 жыл бұрын
1:25 thats like an octave under the elvis version, crazy.
@patriciofernandez27116 жыл бұрын
Stefan Soos People who say he couldn't sing don't know shit. One of my favorite singers of all time.
@fiorellarosa1787 жыл бұрын
caro leonard r.i.p
@TEAMORICKY112 жыл бұрын
Has Leonard ever been married ?
@helenahelena74386 жыл бұрын
A hundred thousands cigarets deeper
@robin_violin6 жыл бұрын
A thousand cigarettes deep
@chrisyeomans55474 жыл бұрын
Try singing a leonard cohen song in the right key.
@123sonner12 жыл бұрын
his thoughts are what make him interesting, certainly not his voice.
@Muldarfbi11 жыл бұрын
He didn't seem to care to much did he?
@xanbex83244 жыл бұрын
Very interesting.....interviewer a question.
@kidcharlemagne72387 жыл бұрын
silly Archer making cheap joke as film finishes
@johnnypastrana67274 жыл бұрын
Looks like he lived a charmed life to me...wonder if he ever did any heavy lifting? Love some of his songs...
@wandaloskot2 жыл бұрын
He was in depression most of his life.
@thedolphin54283 жыл бұрын
Some call his work great singing, some call it shit singing. I've always thought of him just talking through his poetry with a bit of a simple tune underneath it.
@fredrickroll063 жыл бұрын
I knew that 1967 and 1968 were not an ordinary time. I think the breaking point was the murder of JFK - 57 years ago yesterday. We sensed right away (I was 18, and living in Germany for the first time) that nothing would ever be the same again. - There are different definitions of singing, as there are of love, of sex, of wisdom, of philosophy, of everything - otherwise life would be prone to succumbing to tedium, which it often does anyway.
@TheUltimateGC9 жыл бұрын
The lifeless dullness of Britishness. Cohen was brilliant, however. As always.
@gedan_play55844 жыл бұрын
Because he was Canadian not british!!
@bobski959512 жыл бұрын
No, he hasn't.
@newking704 жыл бұрын
Test
@pamelawherey45834 жыл бұрын
Ego
@victoria_atmosphere92904 жыл бұрын
Most morose? Sir you are too kind.
@sanniepstein10077 жыл бұрын
LC is better with the addition of Jennifer Warnes.
@williamwebster521712 жыл бұрын
lol and i don't do lols
@MsTommyknocker11 жыл бұрын
Why was he depressed. Couldn't he afford a car??
@boseandfriends92847 жыл бұрын
BBC? junk food network
@butchgehrig56049 жыл бұрын
I HOPE JANIS IS AT THE GATE TO WAVE GOODBY WHEN ST. PETER SENDS YOU AWAY !
@harrybombardi72899 жыл бұрын
I only learned of Leonard Cohen a week ago when I saw a video of Jackson Browne performing "A Thousand Kisses Deep". So I'm curious as to why you would say he is rejected at the Gates of Heaven.
@butchgehrig56049 жыл бұрын
Harry Bombardi G'day Harry ... Find Cohen's Elegy for Janis Joplin on Utube ! Total disrespect for her and HER TALENT !! Seems to think he was hot stuff then & big deal now ... he is an arrogant old man .. Check It Out !!!
@powernattoh7 жыл бұрын
Get a grip, it was at worst a slip and he greatly regretted it-read (or watch videos) his bio by Sylvie Simmons that covers the issue.