Best Leonard Cohen experience

Recollections from Leonard Cohen's pre-2008 tours, YouTube clips
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Best Leonard Cohen experience

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Reading the topic Best Leonard Cohen concert, I recall my best LC experience :D
It was 1976, Chateau Neuf, Oslo, my first LC concert. He had entered the stage alone for the second set when he was interupted by one of the organizers, and more or less pushed off the stage. It happended to be a bomb threat and we all had to leave the premises and go outside. There we stood waiting to get in again when we where told that the concert was finished. Most people left, but some remained. Then we were told for the second time that it was no point in waiting and then most of the remaining left. Just the most stubborn (stupid?) refused to listen. And then we were rewarded! LC brought the band and the choir out on the lawn and finished the concert with just a small circle surrounding them. It was dark, it was cold, it was great. Of the songs I can just remember "Tonight we´ll be fine". He repeated the chorus again and again and again, more and more out of tune, but with the angle choir behind him all time. I can still hear and see it.
Some years later when he returned to Oslo he recalled the episode and said nobody thought of telling him what was going on. He just noticed that somebody pushed him off the stage and that everybody left.
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