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Very sweet video of interview with Our Man - endlessly generous & humble, as always - thank you Roy!!

Thanks for the links Roy!

I'm bringing your video link over to this page - short interview with Leonard -
http://www.songhall.org/video/entry/1035

Yes holydove - "endlessly generous & humble" !

Hopefully the SHOF will put up more video from the evening - the tribute performances.

It's so gratifying that Leonard is finally getting the accolades piled upon accolades that he has so long deserved. And good to know that the 2009 leg of his tour bagged $21million.

I was happy to see Laura Nyro on the list also. She was another "unsung hero" so to speak, among songwriters, like Leonard. For the longest time, it seemed everybody had heard her songs, but nobody had ever heard of her. And like Leonard, too, I had usually preferred her own versions of her songs, far better than the overwrought and overproduced pop renditions of various cover artists...Listen to her own version of "One" on Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, just Laura and a piano, sighing, "two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one..." It'll break your heart. You've already heard the 3 Dog Night/ Phil Spector version.

I love that little interview with Leonard! "Overwhelmed" and "pretty well dismantled" descibe my feelings whenever Leonard performs or speaks. He blows me away every time, with his charm and demeanour.

LisaLCFan wrote:He blows me away every time, with his charm and demeanour.

I'm with you on this Lisa - well said!

sturgess66 wrote:p.s. Roy - are you in touch with Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II - or Prime Minister David Cameron - about that Knighthood for Leonard Cohen?

Sorry, I can't help with The Pulitzer, The Nobel, or Knighthood. We'll have to just wait and see what happens in those cases. I read somewhere on this forum a few years ago that Leonard Cohen had been informed that Prince Charles had suggested knighthood for Cohen, and Cohen shyed away from it. Also a Canadian journalist had written in to get the Nobel Prize for Cohen. Cohen didn't like that either. What was that line that Leonard used? "The poetry forbids it." Information on the Pulitzer is in the LEONARD COHEN | HALLS OF FAME thread.

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MaryB wrote:Again, kd lang singing H literally gave me chills (is she not starting to look more and more like Wayne Newton, sorry, can't help mentioning that).

I saw that.

http://www.zimbio.com/search?q=The+2010 ... e&type=all

Photos without company logos imprinted have surfaced on zimbio:

http://www.zimbio.com/search?q=The+2010 ... e&type=all

Those are fantastic photos, Roy. Thanks very much for posting, and to everyone else for all the updates.

Random thought: Taylor Swift is one tall and lucky young lady.

I realy wish he hadn`t worn that hat!

Roy wrote:I realy wish he hadn`t worn that hat!

Why

Roy wrote:I realy wish he hadn`t worn that hat!

If KD can go barefoot then Leonard can wear anything he wants. Besides I think the hat adds to his "dapperness"!

Puddingdale wrote:

Roy wrote:I realy wish he hadn`t worn that hat!

Why

I just would have preferred pictures of his whole head, just like the Rock Hall and Canadian Song Hall ceremonies. Not a big deal. He was the only one wearing a hat by the way at the 2010 Song Hall.

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2010 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE NATIONAL ORDER OF QUEBEC IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2008 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE JUNO/CANADIAN MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE ORDER OF CANADA IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 1991 - Leonard Cohen

Good detective work Roy

Many thanks!

THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES; THE YEAR BEFORE AND THE YEAR AFTER LEONARD COHEN WAS INDUCTED

2009
Jon Bon Jovi
Richie Sambora
Eddie Brigati
Felix Cavaliere
David Crosby
Stephen Stills
Graham Nash
James Rado
Gerome Ragni
Galt Mac Dermot
Roger Greenaway
Roger Cook
Stephen Schwartz

2010
Leonard Cohen
Laura Nyro
Bob Marley
Jackie DeShannon
Philip Bailey
Maurice White
Verdine White
Larry Dunn
Al McKay
David Foster
Johnny Mandel
Tom Adair
Matt Dennis
Sunny Skylar
Jesse Stone

2011
Garth Brooks
Leon Russell
Allen Toussaint
John Bettis
Billy Steinberg
Tom Kelly


THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME LEONARD COHEN PAGES

http://www.songwritershalloffame.com/ceremony/C6029
http://www.songwritershalloffame.com/ce ... tees/C6029
http://www.songwritershalloffame.com/ce ... 029/207926
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C6037
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/bio/C6037
http://www.songhall.org/video/entry/1035