Thank you very much, Cedar.

CD "Gipsy Fever with Eva" was actually circulating (burned and copied) among Cohen fans here on the forum 15-20 years back (yes, it's a long time).

Re: Pico Iyer, his best book "on LC" is, I think, this one from his famous TED Talk: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Stillness-Adventures-Going-Nowhere/dp/1476784728 Talk is here: https://www.ted.com/talks/pico_iyer_the_art_of_stillness He is using and quoting LC as the example thru the whole small book....

The title song itself no, but part of the album yes. He regularly performed Memories live in 1979-80 shows and also in 1985 shows. Couple of times in 1979 he performed Iodine - both being way more superb than on the album. Iodine in Paris 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h0Vfugircw Memories ar...

Wherever did Leonard get the musical inspiration for Tacoma Trailer, the instrumental cut on The Future? The Jazz Police have discovered a clue. It may be stolen from a 1968 piece by Yusef Lateef Listen to this beautiful piece, especially 5:59 onward. Sound familiar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Ah, and here I was hoping for dozens of outtakes, demos and unfinished songs from 1980s-1990s-2000s-2010s, including some of 50+ tracks recorded with Sharon...

As it was already mentioned elsewhere in this forum, David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd) has been covering early Leonard's songs in online promotion of Polly Samson's new novel about Hydra in the 1960s, in which Leonard also appears as one of the characters. Novel's title is A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS (Blooms...

.... rest in peace, Linda, our dear friend.

The Woman Being Born - which was actually then retitled to My Life in Art (and, at one point, to End of My Life in Art), and then reworked as Death of a Lady's Man and published in 1978. Linda Hutcheon, famous academic, included Death of a Lady's Man in her book about Leonard's prose, not poems (she...

Variety: https://variety.com/2020/music/obituaries-people-news/hal-willner-dead-dies-music-producer-saturday-night-live-1234573202/ We remember Hal Willner as producer of 2003-2006 Came So Far for Beauty, An Evening of Songs by Leonard Cohen shows, which were filmed for Lian Lunson's 2006 film I'm Y...

Oh, Paola... so many happy meetings during LC's Italian concerts and our previous events. Rest in peace, our friend.

Today, May 11 2018, marks exactly ten years of Leonard Cohen's "comeback". The world tour (his first since 1993) started on May 11 2008 in Fredericton in Canada, and as we all know, the history of popular music changed when tour finished only on December 21, 2013, five years later - and we can say, ...

The legendary US filmmaker and video artist James Benning has new work entitled "L. Cohen". The film premiered at 2018 Berlinale Film Festival and in Paris at the Cinéma du réel film festival. The Berlinale website categorises it as a " single-channel video installation, 45 min. Without dialogue ". ...

Pitchfork has published the list of 200 best LPs of the 1960s, according to the votes of their stuff (more than 50 contributors). Songs of Leonard Cohen are on #11: http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1960s/?page=10 Many jazz LPs on the list, and in rock or pop,...

Komboloi (worry beads), it is Greek "rosary", but totally secular thing (not religious) - old men in Greece used it to pass their time, as far I know (I saw taxists numbering beads while driving or on traffic lights in Athens). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry_beads LC apparently took the habit o...

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/billboard.jpg New issue, Volume 128, Issue 30 Plerase let us know what's inside the magazine. Billboard's feature is now online at http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7580513/leonard-cohen-friends-remember-legend - Remembering Leonard Cohen: Clos...