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by Klaus@Kokanee
Mon Nov 14, 2016 5:19 am
Forum: News
Topic: Leonard Has Passed Away
Replies: 701
Views: 381958

Re: Leonard Has Passed Away

Dear Leonard, I have been blessed to have lived my entire adult life during the era of Cohen. You songs and work have enriched my life immeasurably. Thank you Leonard, for the following words from ‘Boogie Street’ to help get me through this heartbreaking loss: “So come, my friends, be not afraid - W...
by Klaus@Kokanee
Wed Sep 21, 2016 8:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: HAPPY 82nd BIRTHDAY LEONARD!!
Replies: 118
Views: 29181

Re: HAPPY 82nd BIRTHDAY LEONARD!!

I celebrate the happy day you came into the world Leonard, not least of all for the plethora of wonderful true poetry and song you have shared with us over the years. I celebrate your Birthday especially this year when, instead of you retiring, we once again get to experience this delicious sense of...
by Klaus@Kokanee
Mon Sep 12, 2016 5:03 pm
Forum: You Want It Darker
Topic: New Album announced: 'You Want It Darker'
Replies: 336
Views: 127321

Re: New Album announced: 'You Want It Darker'

Hello Everyone – I have not posted here for a very long time. I was wrong - but I had thought the action had moved to Leonard Cohen’s facebook page. On that site a musical interpretation of “You Want It Darker” by Paul Kalkbrenner, was posted yesterday. I imagine most of you have seen the text of “Y...
by Klaus@Kokanee
Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:24 am
Forum: News
Topic: 2015 Juno Awards: PP - Album of the Year
Replies: 10
Views: 3052

Re: 2015 Juno Awards March 15

My Oh My! I cheered as if Canada had just scored a gold medal hockey goal. And then Debby and I raised a glass of brandy in a toast to Leonard and his wonderful “Popular Problems”.

Ring the bells...
by Klaus@Kokanee
Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:41 am
Forum: OLD IDEAS
Topic: "Elaboration of a tube" line in "Going Home"?
Replies: 104
Views: 82742

Re: "Elaboration of a tube" line in "Going Home"?

Hello, sometimes I think it would be nice to have a thread titled the 'Muse of the Laboratory' because Leonard's lyrics include these brief but absolutely fundamental truths about reality, about what we are and how we fit into this universe. For an example: "The sea so deep and blind / Where st...
by Klaus@Kokanee
Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:39 am
Forum: OLD IDEAS
Topic: Old Ideas - the new album - January 31, 2012
Replies: 233
Views: 64371

Re: OLD IDEAS - THE NEW ALBUM

What wonderful news, Jarkko. Ten new songs! In the words of Frederico Garcia Lorca's "New Songs": "The afternoon says: 'I thirst for a shadow!' The moon says: "I thirst for bright stars!' The crystal fountain asks for lips, and the wind for sighs. I thirst for fragrance and laugh...
by Klaus@Kokanee
Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:35 am
Forum: News
Topic: Happy Birthday, Leonard!
Replies: 172
Views: 33322

Re: Happy Birthday, Leonard!

Dear Leonard,

May your dear ones be near and may what you enjoy be handy!

Celebrating the day you were born,

Klaus

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