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Now we're looking forward to this special edition.
Previous issues look very stylish (featuring Dylan, Clapton, Hendrix, Beatles and so on)

The ad was scanned by Dominique Boile.
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Introducing… Leonard Cohen: The Ultimate Music Guide
John Mulvey January 10, 2017

“You'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone…”

When the news broke of his death, on November 10 last year, we had just begun working on an Ultimate Music Guide to Leonard Cohen (on sale this Thursday, but available now from our online shop), emboldened by the brilliance of “You Want It Darker”.
Cohen’s passing should not have been a surprise, in the great scheme of things. Here, after all, was a man of 82 who had recently suggested to the New Yorker’s editor that he was operating in the proximity of death. There was work to complete, Cohen told David Remnick, but, he said, “I don’t think I’ll be able to finish those songs… Maybe I’ll get a second wind, I don’t know. But I don’t dare attach myself to a spiritual strategy. I’ve got some work to do. Take care of business. I am ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable. That’s about it for me.”
Cohen’s epical endurance, his talent for standing at a remove from the march of time, nevertheless meant that the announcement of his actual death still came as a kind of shock. For nearly 50 years, this uncommonly gracious man had confounded expectations of what a singer-songwriter might look and sound like, of what he might sing about. There is a clichéd expectation that certain feted musicians will choose a path of self-destruction, and Cohen undoubtedly had moments when he found himself on that trajectory. Writing about Songs Of Love And Hate in a new piece for this Ultimate Music Guide, David Cavanagh portrays, “A brilliant madman on the precipice of disaster… Maybe, if you told him he had 45 more years of life and work ahead of him, it would be no surprise if he buckled and shook until his laughter turned into a scream.”

There would be further traumatic episodes, among them a legendary – if not notably successful – spell in the company of Phil Spector. Mostly, though, the story of Leonard Cohen is one of a great artist ruefully trying to make some sense of the mysteries of life and love; trying to persevere on a quest towards transcendence, with caveats.

Read more at http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/introducing ... DQovbWB.99
Thanks to Tom Sakic
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......received my copy today....ordered online direct from UNCUT...received in two days......well put together, excellent format and content....a most fitting tribute....recommended. ....
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kenpal wrote:......received my copy today....ordered online direct from UNCUT...received in two days......well put together, excellent format and content....a most fitting tribute....recommended. ....
Good to hear, ordered my copy a couple of days ago! :D
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kenpal wrote:......received my copy today....ordered online direct from UNCUT...received in two days......well put together, excellent format and content....a most fitting tribute....recommended. ....
I always get my copies of UnCut through the local book stores, and it usually does take a while longer. Right now the wait has been ten days but I begin to except it to arrive this week or so... the magazine is published in the UK so it it understandable it takes a while to make it to Georgia.
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