letter from I shorts in the irish independent.

How very fitting for these pandemic days are some of the lyrics of the late, great Leonard Cohen’s Waiting For The Miracle....

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/lett ... 93738.html

together with his wife of 40 years.

picks `dance me to the end of love` as one of his two inheritance tracks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08z5cgv

let's hope leonard gets mentioned : "...I recently finished a book project about the historical and contemporary encounter between Judaism and Buddhism in America. "This book, American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, (Princeton University Press) explains how Judaism and Buddhism met, c...

carcassonne in france ...On our first evening, we ate at a little bistro looking straight across at the ramparts. The maitre d’ must have seen the look on my face when an intense young man with a guitar began to pour out his sorrows in song. We were shown to a perfect table outside on the rear patio...

... She has sung definitive versions of songs from everyone from Joni Mitchell to Bob Dylan over many decades, but octogenarian Judy Collins has no plans to stop any time soon, writes John Meagher... Leonard Cohen and Judy Collins perform a mesmerising duet of ‘Suzanne’, 1976 https://www.independent...

rick vick - R.I.P.

Rick Vick obituary

The ‘Poet of Stroud’ who performed in prisons and became friends with Leonard Cohen when a holiday to Hydra lasted 14 years...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rick ... -jd027q9t9

bishop baines cites leonard during interview on premier christian radio - 1 hour and 28 minutes approx into programme. leonard had tried drugs and drink but joy kept breaking through - quote from recent live tour https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Weekday/Inspirational-Breakfast/Episodes/In...

bishop baines cites leonard during interview on premier christian radio - 1 hour and 28 minutes approx into programme. leonard had tried drugs and drink but joy kept breaking through - quote from recent live tour https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Weekday/Inspirational-Breakfast/Episodes/In...

RTÉ is irish state broadcaster (similar to bbc in uk). their orchestra plays music of leonard cohen. special guests :- lisa hannigan, mick flannery, suzanne savage and phelim drew. AIKEN PROMOTIONS PRESENTS “This was a magical and profoundly moving performance” Hot Press “Fast becoming one of Irelan...

Rufus & Martha Wainwright's A Not So Silent Night Feel the holiday spirit at the Wainwright family party, where Rufus and Martha pay tribute to their singer-songwriter mother Kate McGarrigle. The siblings return to Royal Festival Hall after the first tribute show to McGarrigle was staged here on 12...

nick interviewed by jason solomons in the new european : anti-brexit newspaper.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-st ... -1-6171013

culture fix in the times - saturday review - page 10 - july 20th. the life and times of louis. the lyric i wish i'd written : ...if it be your will by leonard cohen. it's full of the beautiful resignation of one who has fallen to the very depths and now admits to their helplessness... the song that ...

programme audio now on website of bbc radio 4 extra. Sylvie Simmons left Islington as a teenager in the seventies to freelance as a rock correspondent for the likes of NME, Sounds and Melody Maker. Music journalists were rare on the West Coast back then, female ones even rarer. Sylvie talks to Nick ...

reprised at roundhay park in leeds.

...his version of Leonard Cohen’s classic Hallelujah was convincing with the massed audience giving it their all...

https://www.metro.news/review-rain-cant ... n/1680498/

adrian chiles interviews nick about movie on bbc radio 5live.

long interview - 2 hours and 40 minutes approx into programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t86