2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

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THE 2008 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Opening Credits - Picture of Leonard Cohen, and an audio sample of Leonard Cohen performance of Hallelujah

Introduction speech by Chairman, Jann Wenner

...We'll be celebrating the folk based writing and singing of Leonard Cohen...

Seated with Leonard Cohen at his table: Anjani Thomas, Esther Cohen, Lorca Cohen, Adam Cohen, Lian Lunson, Moses Znaimer, Michelle Rice, Jeanne and Dan Halpren, Leon and Jennifer Wieseltier

The order of Inductions:

01. Gamble & Huff inducted by Jerry Butler; Patti LaBelle performs If You Don't Know Me By Now and Jerry Butler performs Only The Strong Survive
02. Little Walter inducted by Ben Harper; Ben Harper and James Cotton perform Juke and My Babe
03. The Ventures inducted by John Fogerty; The Ventures perform Walk Don't Run and Hawaii 5-O
04. Leonard Cohen inducted by Lou Reed; Damien Rice performs Hallelujah
05. Madonna inducted by Justin Timberlake; The Stooges perform Burning Up and Ray of Light
06. John Mellencamp inducted by Billy Joel; John Mellencamp performs Pink Houses, Small Town, The Authority Song
07. The Dave Clark Five inducted by Tom Hanks; Joan Jett performs Bits and Pieces

The All-Star Jam: The Dave Clark Five music (Glad All Over) performed by Paul Shaffer, Joan Jett, John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, Billy Joel and James Cotton

The Leonard Cohen Video Biography Package - Producer/Editor - Rick Austin, Package Graphics - Gunslinger

Leonard Cohen inducted by Lou Reed

Lou Reed's Speech:

You know I first met Mr. Leonard Cohen at the Chelsea Hotel at a place called Max's. Outside the Chelsea we were talking and he said--which I thought was really sweet--he said you wrote a song called "I'll Be Your Mirror" and it made me want to continue being a songwriter. Then we were sitting at Max's Kansas City. In the back room there you had to know somebody. So people weren't paying attention to Leonard. I said, this is Leonard Cohen, he wrote Beautiful Losers. So speaking of Beautiful Losers, which I never got a chance to tell Leonard this, and I was in the part of the tour "I'm Your Man" that wasn't filmed, so nobody got to see me except in Dublin, unless you flew there. You get to really appreciate someone's songs when you sing them, when you sing them out loud that's when you can really hear it. But Anyway. Beautiful Losers, Naked Lunch. I started thinking Burrows, Leonard, Allen Ginsgurg, those three, Hubert Selby, maybe four, but Naked Lunch and Beautiful Losers were out more or less kind of the same time, but one got a lot more attention. I was always very surprised by that.

(Reciting lyrics and poems)

He could have stopped there! He just gets better! We are so lucky to be alive at the same time Leonard Cohen is.....It's not our governor....I know, I know! It's New York, right? Do we have free speech or what? Thank you!

Ladies and gentleman I very much want to welcome Leonard Cohen.

Song that played while Leonard Cohen was walking up onto the stage: I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen's Speech:

Oh thank you so much friends, and Lou thank you so much for reminding me that I wrote a couple of good lines. I inducted you into my own ghostly hall of fame many many years ago. You flourished there from then until this very day. Thank you so much.

This is a very unlikely occassion for me. It is not a distinction that I coveted or even to dare dream about. I am reminded of the prophetic statement of Jon Landau in the early 70s. He said I have seen the future of Rock & Roll and it is not Leonard Cohen. So very pleased to be here. Such an unlikely event. To stand here among the inductees tonight is a great privilege and a great honor.

(Reciting Tower of Song)

Thank you friends.

Damien Rice performed Hallelujah

The All-Star Jam: The Dave Clark Five music performed by Paul Shaffer, Joan Jett, John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, Billy Joel and James Cotton

You can still watch the 2008 Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/rockhall and here
http://www.bestbuy.com/halloffame and here
http://www.vh1classic.com/view/playlist ... ndex.jhtml

LEONARD COHEN | HALLS OF FAME
The Official Halls of Fame Biographies of Leonard Cohen (1991-20??)
http://www.leonardcohenhallsoffame.com

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's Leonard Cohen biography page:
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen

The Future Rock Hall's Leonard Cohen Page
http://www.futurerockhall.com/artist.ph ... nard_Cohen

THE FUTURE ROCK HALL IS NOW FUTURE ROCK LEGENDS DUE TO PRESSURE FROM THE REAL ROCK HALL
HERE IS LEONARD COHEN'S PAGE:
http://www.futurerocklegends.com/artist ... nard_Cohen


The Future Rock Hall Website's minute by minute reaction to the ceremony as it was happening:
http://www.futurerockhall.com/blog_file ... remony.php
9:30 - Leonard Cohen is next. Lou Reed will induct him, and Damien Rice will perform in his place. Still no reason given why Cohen and Madonna will not be performing tonight.

9:33 - Reed in a sweet leather suit with pink shirt. Lots of "Looooouuu-ing" when he's introduced.
9:36 - The crowd seems puzzled by Lou Reed's speech. Probably not the first time.

9:37 - "We're so lucky to be alive the same time Leonard Cohen is."

9:40 - The crowd is getting restless as Reed delivers passages from Cohen's latest book.

9:41 - Cohen is introduced to a standing ovation.
9:44 - Cohen's speech is well done and given in verse. The crowd is eating it up.

9:46 - Rice starts out with an acoustic guitar performance of "Hallelujah" -- so much for having it end the night.
9:50 - Just one Cohen song? Must be, since the annual "In Memoriam" video begins.

9:54 - The video ends with Denis Payton and Mike Smith from the DC5. Very sad.
9:41 - Cohen is introduced to a standing ovation.
9:44 - Cohen's speech is well done and given in verse. The crowd is eating it up.
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Before the ceremony, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO Joel Peresman said Cohen is "not someone who sold 100 million albums, but who had a profound effect" on music.

Access Atlanta Slideshow
http://projects.accessatlanta.com/galle ... knoms1213/

Loved: Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen (left), Burlesque Girl and Bono in the concert documentary 'Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man.' Cohen is the man, indeed, as fall as the 2008 Hall of Fame is concerned. The annual induction ceremony will be held March 10 in New York.

AOL SLIDESHOW
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music ... 1809990001

Canadian folk singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen wrote 'Suzanne,' which became a hit for Judy Collins, and recorded 11 studio albums, three live albums and four other compilations.

The ABC SLIDESHOW
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment ... lse&page=1

Leonard Cohen may not be as enigmatic a performer as the other nominees, but the literate songwriter's songs have been featured in countless films. Although Cohen began his music career in the '60s, going on to work with other influential aritists such as Phil Spector in the late '70s, he seeped onto the scene, gaining widespread notoriety when his "Everybody Knows" was used in 1990s' "Pump Up the Volume."

The MSNBC SLIDESHOW
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21085510/di ... enumber/1/

Canadian writer-turned-singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen was well into his 30s when his debut album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen," was released in 1967. It included hits such as "Suzanne" and "Sisters of Mercy." He has since released 16 more albums and received numerous awards.

THE MSNBC POLL
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21115485/?l ... halloffame

SPINNER SLIDESHOW
http://www.spinner.com/2007/12/13/madon ... l-of-fame/

Leonard Cohen: The Canadian singer-songwriter made a career of crafting brooding folk songs that often proved too dark for the pop charts, but made him a critics' darling.

CNN VIDEO - The 2008 Rock Hall Inductees discussed
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... nnSTCVideo

TIME MAGAZINE SLIDESHOW AND AUDIO BIO - THE BEST OF THE BUNCH - MUST SEE!! :D :D :D :D :D :D
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/20 ... 8/?cnn=yes


Dour artist Leonard Cohen - If the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame were the Baseball Hall of Fame, I think the induction of Leonard Cohen would be similar to the induction of a lefty reliever. He's very much a specialist. Never sold that many records, but he's one of those people whose influence over other people is out there. He's really a poet, and that's a word that I loathe to say anytime in connection to Rock and Roll, but it's true, both technically because his first volume of poetry Let Us Compare Mythologies came out more than forty years ago and artistically. If you listen to songs like Bird on the Wire and Songs of Love and Hate, they really boil down to where each word carries a multitude of meaning and they have to because frankly I don't think his voice ever did that much for people.

--Josh Tyrangiel


The Clay Cole Show - News on the 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
http://www.claycoleshow.com/Oscars.html

VH1 SWEEPSTAKES FOR THE 2008 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
http://www.vh1.com/interact/sweepstakes ... fame_2008/

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Anjani whispering something into Leonard Cohen's ear during John Mellencamp's speech. Cohen looked happy seeing Mellencamp and interested in what he had to say! This one is on http://www.bestbuy.com/halloffame and http://www.vh1classic.com/view/playlist ... ndex.jhtml It's near the end of his speech when he starts talking about MTV.

Leonard Cohen in the press room!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTocB8ExAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2dQDtyoWg

The first 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TV Commercial
http://www.spike.com/video/2947416?cmpn ... fsite=7103
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"Okay, I still haven't gotten around to putting my 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame VHS tape on DVD"

Had not really kept on this thread... what incredible work you have done on this Yankovic. Thanks for sharing with the rest of us.

I see you are in Ottawa part-time - Ottawa, Ontario (where I live) or one of the Ottawas in the U.S.? If it,s Ottawa in Canada, are you going to see Leonard in Montreal?
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Born in Ottawa, Canada. 8 years in Ottawa, 22 years in Fort Lauderdale. I spend my Winters in Ottawa. I won't be able to go to any Cohen concerts.
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Yankovic wrote:Born in Ottawa, Canada. 8 years in Ottawa, 22 years in Fort Lauderdale. I spend my Winters in Ottawa. I won't be able to go to any Cohen concerts.
Winters in Canada, summers in Florida, that's unusual!
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Darling wrote:
Yankovic wrote:Born in Ottawa, Canada. 8 years in Ottawa, 22 years in Fort Lauderdale. I spend my Winters in Ottawa. I won't be able to go to any Cohen concerts.
Winters in Canada, summers in Florida, that's unusual!
I LOVE WINTER! :D

Just so all of you know, my last post on this thread will be in December of 2008 or January of 2009, after the 2009 Rock Hall inductees are announced. I'm going to talk about the connections, if any, between the 2007 inductees, Leonard Cohen (2008) and the 2009 inductees, whomever they may be! I have found two connections between Leonard Cohen and two of the 2007 inductees but I won't say what they are right now.
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Yankovic wrote:

"Born in Ottawa, Canada. 8 years in Ottawa, 22 years in Fort Lauderdale. I spend my Winters in Ottawa. I won't be able to go to any Cohen concerts."

Let's do stay in touch then. I do not know what I will come away with from seeing the Master in Montreal, but will gladly share if you like. Myself, I am originally from Winnipeg, lived in Montreal for three years, and will be moving to Quyon in Quebec, though continue working in Ottawa, in the new year ('09).

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ALL 2008 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME LEONARD COHEN PHOTOS

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THE 2008 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY ON VH1 CLASSIC - SWEEPSTAKES PHOTOS

http://www.vh1.com/interact/sweepstakes ... fame_2008/

LEONARD COHEN, MADONNA, JOHN MELLENCAMP, THE VENTURES, THE DAVE CLARK FIVE

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thanks again for the dedicated work yank!
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John Mellencamp didn't go backstage to have his photo taken by the media in front of the Rock Hall banner and neither did Billy Joel or Lou Reed!! This sucks!

You have to look very closely at the bottom left side of the screen, there is a shot of Leonard Cohen walking back to his seat with his trophy just before Justin Timberlake comes out to give the induction speech for Madonna. Someone at the table next to Leonard's says something to him as he is walking by and Leonard shake's his head in acknowledgement.

Oh, excuse me, if you noticed, Madonna was nowhere to be seen seated at any table during the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. That's because she's Madonna! She's bigger than life itself! :roll: :lol: What, Madonna, sit and listen to the induction speeches for Little Walter, Gamble & Huff, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen, John Mellencamp and The Dave Clark Five? Hell No! She's Madonna! She was too busy mingling, talking to the media, and sitting in a room backstage with Justin Timberlake preparing the music with the producer in charge of playing the music that plays while the inductees and their presenters are walking out on stage. Or maybe they just got balcony seating. But, I'm guessing they saw and heard Leonard's speech somehow, somewhere because Justin Timberlake made a comment about Leonard Cohen's recitation of Tower of Song during his speech for Madonna.

I'm hungry for love but I'm not coming on, I'm just paying my rent everyday in the tower of song.

--Leonard Cohen

Tonight is not just a chance for me to come on to Madonna. I said come on to. That's terrible.

--Justin Timberlake

Madonna did sit in the front with Timberlake and watched Iggy Pop and the Stooges perform her music, though. Then they just disapppeared again. Justin Timberlake co-wrote and produced Madonna's latest hit, 4 Minutes, and it played while Justin Timberlake was walking up to the stage to give his induction speech for Madonna, even though the song had not been released to the public yet. Madonna is the only inductee ever that this has been done for. A sample of an inductee's future release being played at the Rock Hall ceremony!

NEWS - Rollingout.com - Pressroom videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTocB8ExAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7oqM-hVcg&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMfkb6s7 ... re=related

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Madonna in the studio on her bus outside the Waldorf during the Rock Hall ceremony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUxPmu4n ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4z70Br ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ9tMW3 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT65DFIV ... re=related

Backstage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7GCWWMM_rk

2008 Rock Hall Rehearsal - All-Star Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-JAu_qMdHs

Associated Press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2dQDty ... re=related

IMDB - Photos - 23rd Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony
http://www.imdb.com/media/index/rg2532612608

CNN VIDEO - The 2008 Rock Hall Inductees discussed
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... nnSTCVideo

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame has added temporary pictures and video clips of the 2008 Rock Hall Induction Ceremony http://www.rockhall.com/induction2009 Watch for Adam and Lorca's reactions!! :D :D

Photo Links

MSNBC Slideshow and photos
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23568139/di ... enumber/3/

Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gall ... du/photo/1

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/0 ... OLL_6.html

M&C
http://music.monstersandcritics.com/fea ... es?page=10

CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2008/03 ... 3321.shtml

USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/da ... 6&aid=2169

L.A. Times
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... y?index=15

FOX NEWS
http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,464 ... 0.html#1_0

TV GUIDE
http://www.tvguide.com/Special/RedCarpe ... 127&page=9

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169552/mediaindex

Spinner
http://www.spinner.com/2008/03/11/madon ... l-of-fame/

REUTERS
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/ar ... ntNews#a=1

CONTACT MUSIC
http://www.contactmusic.com/pictures/leonard_cohen/7-73

daylife
http://www.daylife.com

Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/366321/fashion-rocks ... ll-of-fame

flickr
http://flickr.com/photos/kyledeanreinfo ... otostream/

The Jeff Pulver Blog
http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/008033.html

Top News
http://www.topnews.in/leonard-cohen-23r ... oom-229407

FameGame
http://www.famegame.com/profile/Leonard_Cohen

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VH1
http://www.vh1.com/photos/gallery/?fid= ... id=2842294

BroadwayWorld
http://broadwayworld.com/printcolumn.cfm?id=25911

You can still watch the 2008 Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony here:

http://www.bestbuy.com/halloffame and here
http://www.vh1classic.com/view/playlist ... ndex.jhtml

LEONARD COHEN | HALLS OF FAME
The Official Halls of Fame Biographies of Leonard Cohen (1991-20??)
http://www.leonardcohenhallsoffame.com
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The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame has added the alternate video footage of the induction ceremony on their website and on youtube. They have their own page on youtube too. Watch for the reactions of those sitting at Leonard Cohen's table during his induction speech, and Lou Reed's speech too: Adam, Lorca, Lian Lunson, Esther Cohen and Moses Znaimer. These were not shown when it aired live on March 10! Also, watch for the reactions of John Mellencamp, Billy Joel, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and Jann Wenner. The reactions of Jon Landau, Chevy Chase and John Fogerty are on there too, which you've already seen.

The Rock Hall Page - 2008 Induction Videos and Photos - 2009 Rock Hall Nominees
http://www.rockhall.com/induction2009

YouTube Rock Hall Page!
http://www.youtube.com/user/rockhall

Induction of Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9IZfiHE ... uction2009

You can still watch the 2008 Rock And Roll Hall of Fame on BEST BUY http://www.bestbuy.com/halloffame
and VH1 Classic http://www.vh1classic.com/view/playlist ... ndex.jhtml

Video has been added to Leonard Cohen's Rock Hall Biography page: http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen

Leonard Cohen Forum:

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THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES; THE YEAR BEFORE AND THE YEAR AFTER LEONARD COHEN WAS INDUCTED!

2007 INDUCTEES
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Patti Smith
R.E.M.
The Ronettes
Van Halen

2008 INDUCTEES
John Mellencamp
Leonard Cohen
Madonna
The Dave Clark Five
The Ventures
Little Walter
Kenny Gamble
Leon Huff

2009 INDUCTEES
Jeff Beck
Little Anthony and the Imperials
Metallica
RUN-DMC
Bobby Womack
Wanda Jackson
Bill Black
DJ Fontana
Spooner Oldham
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THE 2007, 2008, 2009 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES CONNECTIONS TO LEONARD COHEN!:

01. The Ronettes, who were inducted in 2007, and Leonard Cohen, who was inducted in 2008, have both worked with producer Phil Spector.

02. Patti Smith, who was inducted in 2007, is a fan of Leonard Cohen's music. Patti Smith has been to the Chelsea Hotel.

03. R.E.M., who was inducted in 2007, performed Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhatten" on the 1991 Leonard Cohen tribute album, I'm Your Fan. R.E.M. is also mentioned in Leonard Cohen's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame biography and his Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame biography.

04. The Dave Clark Five and Leonard Cohen both have songs called "Everybody Knows." The Dave Clark Five have two of them!: Everybody Knows and Everybody Knows (I Still Love You).

05. No connections to any of the 2009 inductees.
http://www.rockhall.com/induction2009
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/inductees-for-2009

I wonder who Leonard Cohen voted for when he got the ballot in his mailbox, if he did vote! Maybe Robert Kory filled out the ballot for him. He could only choose five or less. The nine nominees were Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Bobby Womack, Jeff Beck, War, The Stooges, Chic, Metallica and RUN-DMC.
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THE 2008 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHY FOR LEONARD COHEN
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen

The 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen | http://rockhall.com/inductees/leonard-cohen/bio/ | http://rockhall.com/inductees/leonard-cohen/timeline/ | http://web.archive.org/web/200806130204 ... nard-cohen

Inductee: Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar; born September 21, 1934)
Induction Year: 2008; Induction Category: Performer

With the 1966 release of In My Life by Judy Collins, containing Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and “Dress Rehearsal Rag,” Leonard Cohen became a folk rock icon of the singer/songwriter movement. Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in his native Canada, Leonard Cohen moved to New York in 1967 and released his classic album Songs of Leonard Cohen on Columbia Records. Its music launched Leonard Cohen into the highest and most influential echelon of songwriters. Leonard Cohen’s elegiac work is widely used in film and covered by artists from Jeff Buckley to Bono to Bob Dylan to R.E.M. As Kurt Cobain said, “Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld so I can sigh eternally.”

There are few artists in the realm of popular music who can truly be called poets, in the classical, arts-and-letters sense of the word. Among them are Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs. Leonard Cohen heads this elite class. In fact, Leonard Cohen was already an established poet and novelist before he turned his attention to songwriting. His academic training in poetry and literature, and his pursuit of them as livelihood for much of the Fifties and Sixties, gave him an extraordinary advantage over his pop peers when it came to setting language to music. Along with other folk-steeped musical literati, Leonard Cohen raised the songwriting bar.

Leonard Cohen’s recording career spans 40 years, commencing with the 1967 release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. He was in his early thirties and seven years older than Bob Dylan, and his age set him apart from the young musicians who dominated the rock and folk worlds. Leonard Cohen was born and raised in the city of Montreal, a city whose rich history and thriving culture served to train his writer’s muse on three fundamental preoccupations: romance, religion and politics. His first musical group, the Buckskin Boys, played traditional music at square dances. He studied poetry at Montreal’s McGill University and published his first collection, Let Us Compare Mythologies, as part of the McGill Poetry Series. His favorite literary figures included the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, the Canadian poet Irving Layton, and Beat Generation figurehead Jack Kerouac.

In 1958, Leonard Cohen lived in New York, where he briefly attended Columbia University. He received a grant for his writing that allowed him to travel the world and make the Greek island of Hydra his on-and-off home for a fertile seven-year period. Leonard Cohen relocated to the States in 1966 and tried his hand at songwriting, largely as a reaction to having experienced the starving lot of the poet and novelist. By then he’d published four books of poetry and two novels (including the celebrated Beautiful Losers). “But I found it was very difficult to pay my grocery bill,” Leonard Cohen said in 1971. “I’ve got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I’m very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but…I’m really starving.”

Beyond the promise of better income, his entrée into the music world greatly increased the audience for his poetry. Leonard Cohen has always been adamant about the power of words to change individual lives and even entire societies for the better. “I always feel that the world was created through words, through speech in our tradition, and I’ve always seen the enormous light in charged speech,” Leonard Cohen told interviewer Robert Sward. “That’s what I’ve tried to get to [and] that is where I squarely stand.”

Leonard Cohen found an early supporter and sponsor in Judy Collins, who introduced his songs to the world via her recordings of “Suzanne” (still his best-known song) and “Dress Rehearsal Rag” on her 1966 album In My Life. Legendary A&R man John Hammond signed Leonard Cohen to Columbia Records, and his first three albums for the label – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate - represent the fruitful first phase in an episodic recording career. The hallmarks of Leonard Cohen’s style were his plainspoken vocals, spare arrangements, deep but accessible lyrics, and an abiding preoccupation with the feminine mystique. Leonard Cohen’s tightly constructed verses served the rhyming and meter demands of pop-song form without sacrificing the higher ends of poetry.

As a songwriter, Leonard Cohen seemed somewhat less comfortable in the Seventies than he had been in the Sixties, recording only four albums of new material – Songs of Love and Hate (1971), New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977) and Recent Songs (1979) – in that decade. The first and last of these were marked by strong songwriting and sympathetic production, whereas Death of a Ladies’ Man was marked by difficulties with producer Phil Spector.

Leonard Cohen’s output was lesser still in the Eighties, but the pair of albums he did release – Various Positions (1984) and I’m Your Man (1988) – are indisputable classics. The first of these found Leonard Cohen writing about spirituality; one of its songs (“Hallelujah”) is among his best-loved and most-recorded, having been covered by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Allison Krauss. The release of Various Positions was accompanied by the publication of Book of Mercy, a self-described “book of prayer.” I’m Your Man was arguably Leonard Cohen’s greatest set of songs since his 1967 debut, containing such classics as “Tower of Song,” “Everybody Knows” and “First We Take Manhattan.” In 1992, some of rock’s most respected acts, including R.E.M., the Pixies, and Nick Cave, contributed to the Leonard Cohen tribute album, I’m Your Fan. Another Leonard Cohen tribute album, Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1995), included cover versions from more mainstream artists, including Don Henley, Billy Joel and Elton John.

Leonard Cohen’s most disenchanted and apocalyptic work, The Future, appeared in 1992. In the title track, he sang, “Get ready for the future, it is murder.” Not surprisingly, Leonard Cohen retreated to a mountaintop monastery in Southern California for five years, during which he studied with and served his Zen master, Joshu Sasaki-Roshi. “It was one of the many attempts I’ve made in the past 30 or 40 years to address acute clinical depression,” he acknowledged in a 2001 interview. That year, he released Ten New Songs, his first studio album in nearly a decade. He has since issued Dear Heather (2004) and produced Blue Alert (2006), an album by backup singer Anjani Thomas. Between their releases came the documentary I’m Your Man, which featured live performances of Leonard Cohen’s songs from U2, Beth Orton and others.

On his ties to Columbia Records, similar in mutual loyalty and longevity to the careers of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen told writer William Ruhlmann: “I never sold enough records to make them dependent on my next record or to make them anxious about it. On the other hand, I never lost them any money. [The records] seem to sell themselves in modest quantities with very little money necessary for promotion.”

Leonard Cohen has earned a better living as a singer/songwriter than he would have as a poet and novelist alone. Yet he’s enjoyed the poet’s advantage of not having to compromise his dignity by indulging in the often-distasteful rituals of pop celebrity. In other words, he’s drawn the best from both worlds, forging a wholly unique and remarkable niche for himself. There’s no denying that Leonard Cohen’s voice has deepened and coarsened over the years, but there’s still a marvelous musicality to his phrasing and poetical lilt to his lyrics that attests to an unquenchable spirit.

In his notes for The Essential Leonard Cohen, writer Pico Iyer noted, “The changeless is what he’s been about since the beginning…Some of the other great pilgrims of song pass through philosophies and selves as if through the stations of the cross. With Leonard Cohen, one feels he knew who he was and where he was going from the beginning, and only digs deeper, deeper, deeper.”

Leonard Cohen’s artistic outlook might best be expressed in his own words with this lyric from “Anthem”: On Anthem (1992), he wrote: “There is a crack, a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.” He remarked, “That’s the closest thing I could describe to a credo. That idea is one of the fundamental positions behind a lot of the songs.”

"I always experience myself as falling apart, and I'm taking emergency measures," Leonard Cohen said fifteen years ago. "It's coming apart at every moment. I try Prozac. I try love. I try drugs. I try Zen meditation. I try the monastery. I try forgetting about all those strategies and going straight. And the place where the evaluation happens is where I write the songs, when I get to that place where I can't be dishonest about what I've been doing."

For four decades, Leonard Cohen has been a model of gut-wrenching emotional honesty. He is, without question, one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning as time goes on. His songs have set a virtually unmatched standard in their seriousness and range. Sex, spirituality, religion, power – he has relentlessly examined the largest issues in human lives, always with a full appreciation of how elusive answers can be to the vexing questions he raises. But those questions, and the journey he has traveled in seeking to address them, are the ever-shifting substance of his work, as well as the reasons why his songs never lose their overwhelming emotional force.

His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), announced him as an undeniable major talent. All quietness, restraint, and poetic intensity, its appearance amid the psychedelic frenzy of that year could not have made a starker point. It includes such songs as "Suzanne," "Sisters of Mercy," "So Long, Marianne," and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," all now longstanding classics. If Leonard Cohen had never recorded another album, his daunting reputation would have been assured by this one alone. However, the two extraordinary albums that followed, Songs From a Room (1969), which includes his classic song "Bird on the Wire," and Songs of Love and Hate (1971), provided whatever proof anyone may have required that the greatness of his debut was not a fluke.

Part of the reason why Leonard Cohen's early work revealed such a high degree of achievement is that he was an accomplished literary figure before he ever began to record. His collections of poetry, including Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) and Flowers for Hitler (1964), and his novels, including Beautiful Losers (1966), had already brought him considerable recognition in his native Canada. His dual careers in music and literature have continued to feed each other over the decades – his songs revealing a literary quality rare in the world of popular music, and his poetry and prose informed by a rich musicality.

One of the most revered figures of the singer/songwriter movement of the late sixties and early seventies, Leonard Cohen soon developed a desire to move beyond the folk trappings of that genre. By temperament and approach, he had always been closer to the European art song – he once termed his work the "European blues." Add to that a fondness for country music, an ear for R&B-styled female background vocals, a sly appreciation for cabaret jazz, and a regard for rhythm not often encountered in singer/songwriters, and the extent of Leonard Cohen's musical palette becomes clear. Each of Leonard Cohen's albums reflects not simply the issues that are on his mind as a writer but the sonic landscape he wishes to explore, as well. The through-lines in his work, of course, his voice ("I was born with the gift of a golden voice," he has sung) and lyrics (he has described himself as "the little Jew who wrote the Bible"), are as distinctive as any in the world of music.

Leonard Cohen's 1974 album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, which includes "Chelsea Hotel #2," a pointedly unsentimental account of his early years in New York City that included a tryst with Janis Joplin, found him making bolder use of orchestration, a contrast to the more stripped-down sound he had earlier preferred. Death of a Ladies' Man, his 1977 collaboration with Phil Spector, constitutes his most extreme experiment. Phil Spector's monumental "Wall of Sound" – the producer, Leonard Cohen once quipped, "was in his Wagnerian phase, when I hoped to find him in his Debussy phase" – proved an uncomfortable setting for Leonard Cohen's typically elliptical and almost painfully intimate lyrics (terms that, admittedly, would not apply to "Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On," on which Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg provide backing vocals. Over the years, Leonard Cohen has bitterly complained about Phil Spector's high-handed – and gun-wielding-ways, while occasionally expressing a kind of grudging affection for the album's uncharacteristic excesses. He has summed it up as "a grotesque, eccentric little moment."

Recent Songs (1979) and Various Positions (1984) returned Leonard Cohen to more recognizable sonic terrain, though the latter album is a perhaps misguided nod to the trend at the time of its release, prominently incorporated synthesizers. The objections didn't particularly bother Leonard Cohen. "People are always inviting me to return to a former purity I was never able to claim," he has said. Though not initially released in the States, Various Positions includes "Hallelujah," which has since become one of Leonard Cohen's best-known, best-loved, and most frequently covered songs, (Versions by Jeff Buckley and John Cale are especially notable.)

As the eighties and their garishness began to wane, Leonard Cohen's star began to rise again. The listeners who had grown up with him had reached an age at which they wanted to reexamine the music of their past, and a new generation of artists and fans discovered him, attracted by the dignity, ambition, and sheer quality of his songs. It is remarkable to this day how often Leonard Cohen's name comes up when young songwriters discuss their inspirations. Indeed, his work often seems to reside in that realm of the human heart that exists outside of time. Hence, it is timeless and always ripe for discovery and rediscovery.

Leonard Cohen rose to the opportunity that his new audience provided by releasing two consecutive albums, I'm Your Man (1988) and The Future (1992), that not only rank among the finest of his career but perfectly capture the texture of particularly complicated times. Leonard Cohen had long documented the high rate of casualties in the love wars, so the profound anxieties generated by the AIDS crisis were no news to him. Songs like "Ain't No Cure For Love," the wryly titled "I'm Your Man," and, most explicitly, "Everybody Knows" ("Everybody knows that the Plague is coming/Everybody knows that it's moving fast/Everybody knows that the naked man and woman are just a shining artifact of the past") depict Leonard Cohen surveying the contemporary erotic battleground and reporting on it with characteristic perspective, insight, wryness, and wisdom.

Similarly, in the title track of The Future, his immersion in Jewish culture, obsession with Christian imagery, and deep commitment to Buddhist detachment rendered him an ideal commentator on the approaching millennium and the apocalyptic fears it generated. Along with the album's title track, "Waiting for the Miracle," "Closing Time," "Anthem," and "Democracy" limned a cultural landscape rippling with dread but yearning for hope, "There is a crack in everything," Leonard Cohen sings in "Anthem," "That's how the light gets in." Our human imperfections, he seems to be saying, are finally what will bring us whatever transcendence we can attain.

In a 1993 Rolling Stone profile, Leonard Cohen described writing the songs on The Future and revealed a good deal about his notoriously painstaking process of composition. "The song will yield if you stick with it long enough," he explained. "But long enough is way beyond any reasonable idea you might have of what long enough is. It takes that long to peel the bullshit off. Every one of those songs began as a song that was easier to write. A lot of them were recorded with easier arrangements and easier lyrics...'The Future' began as a song called "If You Could See What's Coming Next." That point of view was a deflected point of view. I didn't have the guts to say, "I've seen the future, baby/It is murder."

Since then, Leonard Cohen has released Ten New Songs (2001) and Dear Heather (2004), as well as Blue Alert (2006), a collaboration on which Leonard Cohen produced and cowrote songs with his partner and former background singer Anjani Thomas, who provides the vocals. All three albums have only solidified his place in the pantheon of contemporary songwriters. At seventy-three, Leonard Cohen continues to produce compelling work, while enjoying the honors that deservedly come to artists who have achieved legendary status. Documentaries, awards, tribute albums, the ongoing march of artists eager to record his songs, and, finally, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame all acknowledge the peerless contribution Leonard Cohen has made to what one of his titles aptly calls "The Tower of Song."

And he is still laboring hard in the tower. "I think as long as you can crawl into the workshop, you should do the work" he has said. "I always saw those old guys coming down to work, whatever job I happened to be in. Something about that always got to me. I'd like to be one of those old guys going to work."

TIMELINE

September 21, 1934: Leonard Cohen is born in Montreal, Canada.

1956: Let Us Compare Mythologies, Leonard Cohen’s first book of poetry, is published in Canada as part of the McGill Poetry Series.

1966: Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen’s second novel, is published.

July 16, 1967: Leonard Cohen's Newport Folk Festival debut with Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins and Columbia Records' John Hammond.

December 1967: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the poet/novelist’s debut as a singer-songwriter, is released. It contains “Suzanne” and “Sisters of Mercy,” among his best-known songs.

April 1969: Songs from a Room, Leonard Cohen’s second album, is issued. From it comes “Bird on the Wire” and other favorites.

March 1971: Songs of Love and Hate, Leonard Cohen’s third album, is released. It is highlighted by “Famous Blue Raincoat” and “Joan of Arc.”

November 1974: New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Leonard Cohen’s fourth album of original material, is released. Its original cover is banned in the U.S.

November 1977: Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man – a Phil Spector production – is released. It will be followed by Leonard Cohen’s book Death of a Lady’s Man.

September 1979: Leonard Cohen’s Recent Songs, is released. The Songs of Leonard Cohen, a documentary, is filmed in Canada and Europe the same year.

December 1984: Leonard Cohen’s Various Positions is released abroad. PVC Records issues it in the U.S. two months later after his label, Columbia Records, passes on it.

January 1987: Jennifer Warnes, who has sung backup with Leonard Cohen as Jennifer Warren, issues Famous Blue Raincoat, an album of covers from Leonard Cohen’s songbook.

April 19, 1988: I’m Your Man, by Leonard Cohen, is released. Arguably the poet-singer’s best album since his first, it includes “Tower of Song” and “Everybody Knows.”

November 10, 1989: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the singer/poet’s 1967 debut, is certified gold by the RIAA.

November 26, 1991: The Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan is released. It includes cover versions by R.E.M., the Pixies and other indie-rock acts.

November 24, 1992: Leonard Cohen releases The Future, a dyspeptic album reflecting a mental state that inspires a five-year retreat.

November 2, 1993: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, by Leonard Cohen, is published by Pantheon Books. The 432-page collection was assembled by the poet/singer himself.

September 26, 1995: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is released. Contributors include Don Henley, Billy Joel, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, and other stars.

October 9, 2001: Leonard Cohen releases Ten New Songs, his tenth studio album, his first new album in nine years, and his first to chart in the U.S. since 1973’s Live Songs.

October 22, 2002: The Essential Leonard Cohen, a double-disc retrospective compiled by the artist, is released.

August 31, 2004: Judy Collins, whose recordings of Leonard Cohen’s songs introduced the world to the singer/poet in the late Sixties, releases Democracy: Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen.

October 26, 2004: Dear Heather, Leonard Cohen’s second studio album of the new millennium and the 11th of his career, is released shortly after the artist turns 70.

September 2005: Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. The documentary includes tribute-concert footage from Sydney, Australia.

April 24, 2007: Leonard Cohen’s first three albums – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate – are reissued in expanded editions to mark his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.

December 11, 2007: Composer Philip Glass’ Book of Longing – a double-disc song cycle based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen – is released on the Orange Mountain Music label.

March 10, 2008: Leonard Cohen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 23rd annual induction dinner. Lou Reed is the presenter.

Famous Names in Leonard Cohen's 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Biographies:

Judy Collins, John Hammond, Joni Mitchell, Jennifer Warnes, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, R.E.M., Bono, U2, Don Henley, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Buckley, John Cale, Rufus Wainwright, Allison Krauss, Nick Cave, Anjani Thomas, Kurt Cobain, Lou Reed, Phil Ochs, Janis Joplin, Allen Ginsberg, The Buckskins, Richard Wagner, Claude DeBussy, Federico Garcia Lorca, Irving Layton, Jack Kerouac, Robert Sward, Phil Spector, The Pixies, Joshu Sasaki-Roshi, Beth Orton, William Ruhlmann, Pico Iyer, Philip Glass, Jim Devlin, L.S. Dorman, C.L. Rawlins, Ira Nadel, Anthony DeCurtis.

The 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees:

Leonard Cohen, John Mellencamp, Madonna, The Dave Clark Five, The Ventures, Little Walter, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff

Watch The 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony:

http://www.bestbuy.com/halloffame

http://www.vh1classic.com/view/playlist ... ndex.jhtml

http://www.youtube.com/user/rockhall

LEONARD COHEN | HALLS OF FAME
The Official Halls of Fame Biographies of Leonard Cohen (1991-20??)
http://www.leonardcohenhallsoffame.com

NOTE: LEONARD COHEN GOT TWO BIOGRAPHIES FROM THE ROCK HALL.

01. THE INTERNET BIOGRAPHY - http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen

02. THE BIOGRAPHY BY ANTHONY DECURTIS THAT WAS DISTRIBUTED AT THE INDUCTION CEREMONY

BOTH ARE POSTED ABOVE AND ON THE HALLS OF FAME SITE.


Artists Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Lou Reed:

01. 1989 Dion
02. 1995 Frank Zappa
03. 2008 Leonard Cohen


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