RIP Leonard Cohen

[the dude abides]

Died at 82 today.

So many songs over so many decades I could post, but this was my favorite.

 

[Redondo]

RIP Leonard

[red321]

This makes me sad.

His Leonard Cohen Live in London Album (there are a few live ones...this is my favorite though) is brilliant. Even in his late years he was still kicking ass. 

 

Washington Post did a great write up on him this morning.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/11/leonard-cohens-hallelujah-pops-most-sacred-text-almost-went-unheard-by-the-masses/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-cohen%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

(side note...if you have an Amazon Prime account you get 6 free months of the Washington Post digital edition)

 

[AngelsLongBall]

This was my first introduction to him:

 

And his last:

 

[Spirit]

Just an amazing song writer.  What a loss.

 

 

[mrwicked]

Ugh. I was just saying last month that I love Bob Dylan, and he is deserving of Nobel Prize in literature.

But personally, I've always felt Cohen was just on another level.

Sad times for poetry and music.

I've been humming Waiting for the Miracle and Future a lot lately.

Great piece about him in the New Yorker couple months back: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker/amp?client=safari#

[the dude abides]

Ring the bell that still can ring.

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in.