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Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:45 pm
Forum: USA & CANADA 2012 / CONCERT REPORTS & MEET-UPS
Topic: CONCERT REPORT: New York City, NY - December 18, 2012
Replies: 72
Views: 62708

Re: CONCERT REPORT: New York City, NY - December 18, 2012

We were also pleased that one of our heros......Bill Bradley, sat just a couple of rows in front of us. For those not from around here, Bill was an amazing basketball talent who helped the NY Knicks to a couple of championships before becoming a very popular senator representing NewJersey. His seat ...
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Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:56 am
Forum: USA & CANADA 2012 / CONCERT REPORTS & MEET-UPS
Topic: CONCERT REPORT: New York City, NY - December 18, 2012
Replies: 72
Views: 62708

Re: CONCERT REPORT: New York City, NY - December 18, 2012

Agree MSG was wonderful. Looks like same set list as Boston. LC and band all in fine form. Love the old ideas songs, Sharon killed with Alexandra for huge ovation. LC maybe got biggest reaction for a fantastic Democracy with Jews harp, and Hallelujah. Am sure Brooklyn will be special as well. Return...
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Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:32 am
Forum: News
Topic: Hallelujah on 12 12
Replies: 14
Views: 2792

Re: Hallelujah on 12 12

Thanks Tirok and Mirka -- while I disagree with Rodin, I can understand how the faithful can be offended, and respect their right to express their opinion. Not a new circumstance for me, since I became a Cohen addict from Natural Born Killers, and the use of Waiting for the Miracle, brief Anthem cli...
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Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:21 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Hallelujah on 12 12
Replies: 14
Views: 2792

Re: Hallelujah on 12 12

Alan Light reviewed the song for Rolling Stone...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... newsletter
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Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:55 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Hallelujah on 12 12
Replies: 14
Views: 2792

Re: Hallelujah on 12 12

The show cut to Brian Williams right after the parody concluded. He noted that he didn't know for sure whether or not LC had blessed the Sandler version, but in fact LC would be bringing his show to the Garden on the 18th!
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Thu Dec 13, 2012 5:30 am
Forum: News
Topic: Hallelujah on 12 12
Replies: 14
Views: 2792

Hallelujah on 12 12

Who woulda thought it.....

Adam Sandler may have done the best cover yet, with help from Paul Schaffer,,,,

"Sandy, screw ya"
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:47 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons
Replies: 183
Views: 68604

Re: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons (Fall 2012

Thanks for the thoughtful review Doron. Glad you liked the book.
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Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons
Replies: 183
Views: 68604

Re: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons (Fall 2012

From Montreal Gazette I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen By Sylvie Simmons McClelland & Stewart 576 pages, $35 “Not I, but the poet discovered the unconscious,” Sigmund Freud is quoted as saying. Who, then, discovers the poet? In Sylvie Simmons’s biography of Leonard Cohen, it will be you. ...
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Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:31 am
Forum: Old Ideas World Tour 2012 / USA and Canada
Topic: NOW: MORE MEMBER TICKETS TO TORONTO (Dec 5)
Replies: 2
Views: 7634

Re: NOW: MORE MEMBER TICKETS TO TORONTO (Dec 5)

Wow Toronto can be so appealing...... Linda and I have very fond memories....Toronto 2008, our FIRST live Cohen concert and our FIRST meeting face to face with wonderful fan and webmistress, Marie M. Never imagined then that 01-10 would offer so many Cohen pleasures, and that 2012 could also come in...
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Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:45 am
Forum: News
Topic: let's make lc bio a best seller
Replies: 6
Views: 1313

Re: let's make lc bio a best seller

I agree Wendy and John -- it should be read first. Got mine on the 18th and have devoured it. Don't think any fans are going to tout Nadel or the few other Cohen books over Sylvie's far more in-depth treatment. First the depth, then the prose that so effortlessly keeps you entranced. Devlin's book a...
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Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:40 pm
Forum: News
Topic: let's make lc bio a best seller
Replies: 6
Views: 1313

let's make lc bio a best seller

Could have just added this to the thread on Sylvie's biography, "I'm Your Man", but want to highlight it more. The book will be listed in the NYTimes Book Review section as a best seller on the 7th of October. We can all help stimulate sales and interest in it by posting a 5 star rating an...
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Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:42 am
Forum: News
Topic: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons
Replies: 183
Views: 68604

Re: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons (Fall 2012

Columbus Dispatch -- SF Chronicle Boo k Review | I'm Your Man: Biography captures soul of musical poet By Tom Nolan SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Wednesday September 26, 2012 7:20 AM Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet and novelist who decided in the mid-1960s to move to New York and become a singer-songwrit...
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Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:49 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons
Replies: 183
Views: 68604

Re: New Leonard Cohen biography by Sylvie Simmons (Fall 2012

Good work Di! Had similar urge, but didn't act on it in one of my local Barnes and Nobel stores. I even needed help to find it -- there were 5 copies available -- but on the bottom shelf in Music between something on the Kinks, and another book on Dylan. No Author, subject, or title scheme to the pl...
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Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:00 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New York Times Review of "I'm Your Man"
Replies: 7
Views: 2110

Re: New York Times Review of "I'm Your Man"

Got my US edition last night -- so impressed that I ordered the UK version from Amazon UK this morning! Think there are more pictures, and they are interspersed throughout the book rather than grouped into one center section.

Sylvie done great!
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Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Interview with Sylvie Simmons
Replies: 25
Views: 7212

Re: Interview with Sylvie Simmons

Amazon corrected a mix-up on my order, and made up for it with a special delivery that arrived at my door about 7pm on release date.

YAY!

Love the heft and the photos.......WOW. :D

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