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anthem - leonard's music gives me hope says lawyer philippe sands - private passions

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:23 pm
by sebmelmoth2003
bbc radio 3.

leonard audio segment linked - click bottom right of page for full programme audio.

Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands tells Michael Berkeley that when the world seems like a dark place, he listens to Leonard Cohen’s 'Anthem'

he said he went multiple times to leonard's concerts in london.

he can be heard on soundtrack of album shouting his appreciation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04py66b

Re: anthem - leonard's music gives me hope says lawyer philippe sands - private passions

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:54 pm
by sebmelmoth2003
philippe sands - times literary supplement.

What author or book do you think is most underrated? And why?

Leonard Cohen. Not a spare word written, spoken or sung. Confidently self-deprecating, expressively individualistic, opening of the imagination, humorous.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/publ ... ippe-sands

philippe sands - waitrose magazine

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:21 pm
by sebmelmoth2003
philippe sands picks his favourite books (in current issue of waitrose magazine).

the world of yesterday - stefan zweig
dark money - jane mayer
just kids - patti smith
the return - hisham matar

and last but by no means least :

book of longing by leonard cohen

philippe says :

over three decades, not a day has passed in which i have not listened to, read or thought about leonard who died last year and remains a guiding spirit.

who could forget his words : "i'm good at love, i'm good at hate, it's inbetween i freeze".