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The 2008 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced last month. This year, a few artists who have been eligible for way too long finally made the cut. In order to be eligible for induction, an artist must have made their debut at least 25 years ago. This year's inductees include Madonna, John Mellencamp, The Dave Clark Five, Leonard Cohen, and The Ventures. Of these artists, Madonna is the only one who was eligible for the first time in 2008. This means that the other artists, who all seem like shoo-ins to me, have been on the ballot for awhile now, and finally got inducted after years of waiting. Leonard Cohen, in particular, has been talked about as an obvious inductee since 1992. His debut album, Songs Of Leonard Cohen, was released in 1967. It's nice to see the Rock Hall catch up on a few overdue artists.
So what will the Rock Hall look like in the future? Several notable artists have been eligible for a few years now, and are still likely to end up in the hall eventually. Such artists include Beastie Boys, Kraftwerk, The Stooges, Lou Reed, Deep Purple, T Rex, Love, The Moody Blues, New York Dolls, Tina Turner, Randy Newman, and Tom Waits. I strongly suspect that most of these artists make it within the next few years, especially as we approach the glut of mediocre eighties debuts. As for the first time inductees in 2009, The Smiths, Run DMC, and Stevie Ray Vaughan are the only artists in next year's class that will ultimately make it in. Even if all three make it next year, it still leaves a couple vacancies for the overdue artists mentioned above. Hopefully, the Rock Hall takes this opportunity to legitimize itself with the inclusion of a few artists that should have been inducted long ago.
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WARNING!
I am about to post The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Biography of Leonard Cohen which has just been posted at the Rock Hall website.
Let me just say that I am very disappointed in the quality and factual accuracy of his bio. Very unprofessional!! I'm guessing the people who write these biographies don't post them themselves. They just hand them to some slacker employees who are web savy to just post them online without checking for mistakes.
I will post the Rock Hall biography of Leonard Cohen with MY CORRECTIONS MADE!!
in the thread: Leonard Cohen & The Halls of Fame, in the COMMENTS & QUESTIONS section.
Here, I will post it as is from the Rock Hall website
Mistakes to look for:
or
"who should truly be called poets" or who could truly be called poets"
Songs of Love and Hate
New Skin For The Old Ceremony
Death of a Ladies' Man
Recent Songs
LET US KNOW IF YOU FIND ANYTHING ELSE!!
I am about to post The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Biography of Leonard Cohen which has just been posted at the Rock Hall website.
Let me just say that I am very disappointed in the quality and factual accuracy of his bio. Very unprofessional!! I'm guessing the people who write these biographies don't post them themselves. They just hand them to some slacker employees who are web savy to just post them online without checking for mistakes.
I will post the Rock Hall biography of Leonard Cohen with MY CORRECTIONS MADE!!
in the thread: Leonard Cohen & The Halls of Fame, in the COMMENTS & QUESTIONS section.Here, I will post it as is from the Rock Hall website
Mistakes to look for:
Isn't it supposed to be "who can truly be called" or "who truly can be called"?There are few artists in the realm of popular music who truly be called poets, in the classical, arts-and-letters sense of the word.
or
"who should truly be called poets" or who could truly be called poets"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, didn't Leonard Cohen make 4 studio albums with original material in the 1970s?:As a songwriter, Cohen seemed somewhat less comfortable in the Seventies than he had in the Sixties, recording only three albums of new material – New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977) and Recent Songs (1979) – in that decade.
Songs of Love and Hate
New Skin For The Old Ceremony
Death of a Ladies' Man
Recent Songs
I’m Your Man (1988)
The biography says I'm Your Man was released in 1988. The TIMELINE says I'm Your Man was released in 1990.October 25, 1990: I’m Your Man, by Leonard Cohen, is released. Arguably the poet-singer’s best album since his first, it includes “Tower of Song” and “Everybody Knows.”
LET US KNOW IF YOU FIND ANYTHING ELSE!!
Just ignore this! It says tk is the presenter for all the inductees. There is no tk! This is just a signal to let us know to check back at a later date when the presenters are announced. It will be updated.tk is his presenter.
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http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen
Leonard Cohen
Induction Year: 2008
Induction Category: Performer
Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar; born September 21, 1934)
With the 1966 release of In My Life by Judy Collins, containing Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and “Dress Rehearsal Rag,” Cohen became a folk rock icon of the singer songwriter movement. Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in his native Canada, Cohen moved to New York in 1967 and released his classic album Songs of Leonard Cohen on Columbia Records. Its music launched Leonard Cohen into the highest and most influential echelon of songwriters. Cohen’s elegiac work is widely used in film and covered by artists from Jeff Buckley to Bono to Bob Dylan to R.E.M. As Kurt Cobain said, “Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld so I can sigh eternally.”
There are few artists in the realm of popular music who truly be called poets, in the classical, arts-and-letters sense of the word. Among them are Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs. Leonard Cohen heads this elite class. In fact, Cohen was already an established poet and novelist before he turned his attention to songwriting. His academic training in poetry and literature, and his pursuit of them as livelihood for much of the Fifties and Sixties, gave him an extraordinary advantage over his pop peers when it came to setting language to music. Along with other folk-steeped musical literati, Cohen raised the songwriting bar.
Cohen’s recording career spans 40 years, commencing with the 1967 release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. He was in his early thirties and seven years older than Dylan, and his age set him apart from the young musicians who dominated the rock and folk worlds. Cohen was born and raised in the city of Montreal, a city whose rich history and thriving culture served to train his writer’s muse on three fundamental preoccupations: romance, religion and politics. His first musical group, the Buckskins, played traditional music at square dances. He studied poetry at Montreal’s McGill University and published his first collection, Let Us Compare Mythologies, as part of the McGill Poetry Series. His favorite literary figures included the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, the Canadian poet Irving Layton, and Beat Generation figurehead Jack Kerouac.
In 1958, Cohen lived in New York, where he briefly attended Columbia University. He received a grant for his writing that allowed him to travel the world and make the Greek island of Hydra his on-and-off home for a fertile seven-year period. Cohen relocated to the States in 1966 and tried his hand at songwriting, largely as a reaction to having experienced the starving lot of the poet and novelist. By then he’d published four books of poetry and two novels (including the celebrated Beautiful Losers). “But I found it was very difficult to pay my grocery bill,” Cohen said in 1971. “I’ve got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I’m very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but…I’m really starving.”
Beyond the promise of better income, his entrée into the music world greatly increased the audience for his poetry. Cohen has always been adamant about the power of words to change individual lives and even entire societies for the better. “I always feel that the world was created through words, through speech in our tradition, and I’ve always seen the enormous light in charged speech,” Cohen told interviewer Robert Sward. “That’s what I’ve tried to get to [and] that is where I squarely stand.”
Cohen found an early supporter and sponsor in Judy Collins, who introduced his songs to the world via her recordings of “Suzanne” (still his best-known song) and “Dress Rehearsal Rag” on her 1966 album In My Life. Legendary A&R man John Hammond signed Cohen to Columbia Records, and his first three albums for the label – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate - represent the fruitful first phase in an episodic recording career. The hallmarks of Cohen’s style were his plainspoken vocals, spare arrangements, deep but accessible lyrics, and an abiding preoccupation with the feminine mystique. Cohen’s tightly constructed verses served the rhyming and meter demands of pop-song form without sacrificing the higher ends of poetry.
As a songwriter, Cohen seemed somewhat less comfortable in the Seventies than he had in the Sixties, recording only three albums of new material – New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977) and Recent Songs (1979) – in that decade. The first and last of these were marked by strong songwriting and sympathetic production, whereas Death of a Ladies’ Man was marked by difficulties with producer Phil Spector.
Cohen’s output was lesser still in the Eighties, but the pair of albums he did release – Various Positions (1984) and I’m Your Man (1988) – are indisputable classics. The first of these found Cohen writing about spirituality; one of its songs (“Hallelujah”) is among his best-loved and most-recorded, having been covered by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Allison Krauss. The release of Various Positions was accompanied by the publication of Book of Mercy, a self-described “book of prayer.” I’m Your Man was arguably Cohen’s greatest set of songs since his 1967 debut, containing such classics as “Tower of Song,” “Everybody Knows” and “First We Take Manhattan.” In 1992, some of rock’s most respected acts, including R.E.M., the Pixies, and Nick Cave, contributed to the Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan. Another Cohen tribute album, Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1995), included cover versions from more mainstream artists, including Don Henley, Billy Joel and Elton John.
Cohen’s most disenchanted and apocalyptic work, The Future, appeared in 1992. In the title track, he sang, “Get ready for the future, it is murder.” Not surprisingly, Cohen retreated to a mountaintop monastery in Southern California for five years, during which he studied with and served his Zen master, Joshu Sasaki-Roshi. “It was one of the many attempts I’ve made in the past 30 or 40 years to address acute clinical depression,” he acknowledged in a 2001 interview. That year, he released Ten New Songs, his first studio album in nearly a decade. He has since issued Dear Heather (2004) and produced Blue Alert (2006), an album by backup singer Anjani. Between their releases came the documentary I’m Your Man, which featured live performances of Cohen’s songs from U2, Beth Orton and others.
On his ties to Columbia Records, similar in mutual loyalty and longevity to the careers of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Cohen told writer William Ruhlmann: “I never sold enough records to make them dependent on my next record or to make them anxious about it. On the other hand, I never lost them any money. [The records] seem to sell themselves in modest quantities with very little money necessary for promotion.”
Cohen has earned a better living as a singer-songwriter than he would have as a poet and novelist alone. Yet he’s enjoyed the poet’s advantage of not having to compromise his dignity by indulging in the often-distasteful rituals of pop celebrity. In other words, he’s drawn the best from both worlds, forging a wholly unique and remarkable niche for himself. There’s no denying that Cohen’s voice has deepened and coarsened over the years, but there’s still a marvelous musicality to his phrasing and poetical lilt to his lyrics that attests to an unquenchable spirit.
In his notes for The Essential Leonard Cohen, writer Pico Iyer noted, “The changeless is what he’s been about since the beginning…Some of the other great pilgrims of song pass through philosophies and selves as if through the stations of the cross. With Cohen, one feels he knew who he was and where he was going from the beginning, and only digs deeper, deeper, deeper.”
Cohen’s artistic outlook might best be expressed in his own words with this lyric from “Anthem”: On Anthem (1992), he wrote: “There is a crack, a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.” He remarked, “That’s the closest thing I could describe to a credo. That idea is one of the fundamental positions behind a lot of the songs.”
TIMELINE
September 21, 1934: Leonard Cohen is born in Montreal, Canada.
1956: Let Us Compare Mythologies, Leonard Cohen’s first book of poetry, is published in Canada as part of the McGill Poetry Series.
1966: Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen’s second novel, is published.
December 1967: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the poet/novelist’s debut as a singer-songwriter, is released. It contains “Suzanne” and “Sisters of Mercy,” among his best-known songs.
April 1969: Songs from a Room, Leonard Cohen’s second album, is issued. From it comes “Bird on the Wire” and other favorites.
March 1971: Songs of Love and Hate, Leonard Cohen’s third album, is released. It is highlighted by “Famous Blue Raincoat” and “Joan of Arc.”
November 1974: New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Leonard Cohen’s fourth album of original material, is released. Its original cover is banned in the U.S.
November 1977: Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man –a Phil Spector production – is released. It will be followed by Cohen’s book Death of a Lady’s Man.
September 1979: Leonard Cohen’s Recent Songs, is released. The Songs of Leonard Cohen, a documentary, is filmed in Canada and Europe the same year.
December 1984: Various Positions, Leonard Cohen’s is released abroad. PVC Records issues it in the U.S. two months later after his label, Columbia Records, passes on it.
January 1987: Jennifer Warnes, who has sung backup with Leonard Cohen as Jennifer Warren, issues Famous Blue Raincoat, an album of covers from Cohen’s songbook.
November 10, 1989: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the singer/poet’s 1967 debut, is certified gold by the RIAA.
October 25, 1990: I’m Your Man, by Leonard Cohen, is released. Arguably the poet-singer’s best album since his first, it includes “Tower of Song” and “Everybody Knows.”
November 26, 1991: The Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan is released. It includes cover versions by R.E.M., the Pixies and other indie-rock acts.
November 24, 1992: Leonard Cohen releases The Future, a dyspeptic album reflecting a mental state that inspires a five-year retreat.
November 2, 1993: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, by Leonard Cohen, is published by Pantheon Books. The 432-page collection was assembled by the poet/singer himself.
September 26, 1995: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is released. Contributors include Don Henley, Billy Joel, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, and other stars.
October 9, 2001: Leonard Cohen releases Ten New Songs, his tenth studio album, his first new album in nine years, and his first to chart in the U.S. since 1973’s Live Songs.
October 22, 2002: The Essential Leonard Cohen, a double-disc retrospective compiled by the artist, is released.
August 31, 2004: Judy Collins, whose recordings of Leonard Cohen’s songs introduced the world to the singer/poet in the late Sixties, releases Democracy: Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen.
October 26, 2004: Dear Heather, Leonard Cohen’s second studio album of the new millennium and the 11th of his careeer, is released shortly after the artist turns 70.
September 2005: Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. The documentary includes tribute-concert footage from Sydney, Australia.
February 2007: Leonard Cohen’s first three albums – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate – are reissued in expanded editions to mark his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.
December 11, 2007: Composer Philip Glass’ Book of Longing b – a double-disc song cycle based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen – is released on the Orange Mountain Music label.
March 10, 2008: Leonard Cohen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 22nd annual induction dinner. tk is his presenter.
Essential Recordings
Suzanne
Tower of Song
Famous Blue Raincoat
Hallelujah
Everybody Knows
So Long, Marianne
The Future
Came So Far for Beauty
Bird On the Wire
You Have Loved Enough
Recommended Reading
Billboard magazine
November 28, 1998. (Note: This issue pays tribute to Leonard Cohen.)
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
Leonard Cohen. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
“Hallelujah: 70 Things About Leonard Cohen at 70.”
Time De Lisle. The Guardian (September 17, 2004).
Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words.
Jim Devlin (ed.).London: Omnibus Press, 1998.
Leonard Cohen: Prophet of the Heart.
L.S. Dorman and C.L. Rawlins. London: Omnibus Press, 1990.
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen.
Ira B. Nadel. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Leonard Cohen
Induction Year: 2008
Induction Category: Performer
Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar; born September 21, 1934)
With the 1966 release of In My Life by Judy Collins, containing Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and “Dress Rehearsal Rag,” Cohen became a folk rock icon of the singer songwriter movement. Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in his native Canada, Cohen moved to New York in 1967 and released his classic album Songs of Leonard Cohen on Columbia Records. Its music launched Leonard Cohen into the highest and most influential echelon of songwriters. Cohen’s elegiac work is widely used in film and covered by artists from Jeff Buckley to Bono to Bob Dylan to R.E.M. As Kurt Cobain said, “Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld so I can sigh eternally.”
There are few artists in the realm of popular music who truly be called poets, in the classical, arts-and-letters sense of the word. Among them are Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs. Leonard Cohen heads this elite class. In fact, Cohen was already an established poet and novelist before he turned his attention to songwriting. His academic training in poetry and literature, and his pursuit of them as livelihood for much of the Fifties and Sixties, gave him an extraordinary advantage over his pop peers when it came to setting language to music. Along with other folk-steeped musical literati, Cohen raised the songwriting bar.
Cohen’s recording career spans 40 years, commencing with the 1967 release of his debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. He was in his early thirties and seven years older than Dylan, and his age set him apart from the young musicians who dominated the rock and folk worlds. Cohen was born and raised in the city of Montreal, a city whose rich history and thriving culture served to train his writer’s muse on three fundamental preoccupations: romance, religion and politics. His first musical group, the Buckskins, played traditional music at square dances. He studied poetry at Montreal’s McGill University and published his first collection, Let Us Compare Mythologies, as part of the McGill Poetry Series. His favorite literary figures included the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, the Canadian poet Irving Layton, and Beat Generation figurehead Jack Kerouac.
In 1958, Cohen lived in New York, where he briefly attended Columbia University. He received a grant for his writing that allowed him to travel the world and make the Greek island of Hydra his on-and-off home for a fertile seven-year period. Cohen relocated to the States in 1966 and tried his hand at songwriting, largely as a reaction to having experienced the starving lot of the poet and novelist. By then he’d published four books of poetry and two novels (including the celebrated Beautiful Losers). “But I found it was very difficult to pay my grocery bill,” Cohen said in 1971. “I’ve got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I’m very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but…I’m really starving.”
Beyond the promise of better income, his entrée into the music world greatly increased the audience for his poetry. Cohen has always been adamant about the power of words to change individual lives and even entire societies for the better. “I always feel that the world was created through words, through speech in our tradition, and I’ve always seen the enormous light in charged speech,” Cohen told interviewer Robert Sward. “That’s what I’ve tried to get to [and] that is where I squarely stand.”
Cohen found an early supporter and sponsor in Judy Collins, who introduced his songs to the world via her recordings of “Suzanne” (still his best-known song) and “Dress Rehearsal Rag” on her 1966 album In My Life. Legendary A&R man John Hammond signed Cohen to Columbia Records, and his first three albums for the label – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate - represent the fruitful first phase in an episodic recording career. The hallmarks of Cohen’s style were his plainspoken vocals, spare arrangements, deep but accessible lyrics, and an abiding preoccupation with the feminine mystique. Cohen’s tightly constructed verses served the rhyming and meter demands of pop-song form without sacrificing the higher ends of poetry.
As a songwriter, Cohen seemed somewhat less comfortable in the Seventies than he had in the Sixties, recording only three albums of new material – New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977) and Recent Songs (1979) – in that decade. The first and last of these were marked by strong songwriting and sympathetic production, whereas Death of a Ladies’ Man was marked by difficulties with producer Phil Spector.
Cohen’s output was lesser still in the Eighties, but the pair of albums he did release – Various Positions (1984) and I’m Your Man (1988) – are indisputable classics. The first of these found Cohen writing about spirituality; one of its songs (“Hallelujah”) is among his best-loved and most-recorded, having been covered by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Allison Krauss. The release of Various Positions was accompanied by the publication of Book of Mercy, a self-described “book of prayer.” I’m Your Man was arguably Cohen’s greatest set of songs since his 1967 debut, containing such classics as “Tower of Song,” “Everybody Knows” and “First We Take Manhattan.” In 1992, some of rock’s most respected acts, including R.E.M., the Pixies, and Nick Cave, contributed to the Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan. Another Cohen tribute album, Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1995), included cover versions from more mainstream artists, including Don Henley, Billy Joel and Elton John.
Cohen’s most disenchanted and apocalyptic work, The Future, appeared in 1992. In the title track, he sang, “Get ready for the future, it is murder.” Not surprisingly, Cohen retreated to a mountaintop monastery in Southern California for five years, during which he studied with and served his Zen master, Joshu Sasaki-Roshi. “It was one of the many attempts I’ve made in the past 30 or 40 years to address acute clinical depression,” he acknowledged in a 2001 interview. That year, he released Ten New Songs, his first studio album in nearly a decade. He has since issued Dear Heather (2004) and produced Blue Alert (2006), an album by backup singer Anjani. Between their releases came the documentary I’m Your Man, which featured live performances of Cohen’s songs from U2, Beth Orton and others.
On his ties to Columbia Records, similar in mutual loyalty and longevity to the careers of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Cohen told writer William Ruhlmann: “I never sold enough records to make them dependent on my next record or to make them anxious about it. On the other hand, I never lost them any money. [The records] seem to sell themselves in modest quantities with very little money necessary for promotion.”
Cohen has earned a better living as a singer-songwriter than he would have as a poet and novelist alone. Yet he’s enjoyed the poet’s advantage of not having to compromise his dignity by indulging in the often-distasteful rituals of pop celebrity. In other words, he’s drawn the best from both worlds, forging a wholly unique and remarkable niche for himself. There’s no denying that Cohen’s voice has deepened and coarsened over the years, but there’s still a marvelous musicality to his phrasing and poetical lilt to his lyrics that attests to an unquenchable spirit.
In his notes for The Essential Leonard Cohen, writer Pico Iyer noted, “The changeless is what he’s been about since the beginning…Some of the other great pilgrims of song pass through philosophies and selves as if through the stations of the cross. With Cohen, one feels he knew who he was and where he was going from the beginning, and only digs deeper, deeper, deeper.”
Cohen’s artistic outlook might best be expressed in his own words with this lyric from “Anthem”: On Anthem (1992), he wrote: “There is a crack, a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.” He remarked, “That’s the closest thing I could describe to a credo. That idea is one of the fundamental positions behind a lot of the songs.”
TIMELINE
September 21, 1934: Leonard Cohen is born in Montreal, Canada.
1956: Let Us Compare Mythologies, Leonard Cohen’s first book of poetry, is published in Canada as part of the McGill Poetry Series.
1966: Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen’s second novel, is published.
December 1967: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the poet/novelist’s debut as a singer-songwriter, is released. It contains “Suzanne” and “Sisters of Mercy,” among his best-known songs.
April 1969: Songs from a Room, Leonard Cohen’s second album, is issued. From it comes “Bird on the Wire” and other favorites.
March 1971: Songs of Love and Hate, Leonard Cohen’s third album, is released. It is highlighted by “Famous Blue Raincoat” and “Joan of Arc.”
November 1974: New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Leonard Cohen’s fourth album of original material, is released. Its original cover is banned in the U.S.
November 1977: Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man –a Phil Spector production – is released. It will be followed by Cohen’s book Death of a Lady’s Man.
September 1979: Leonard Cohen’s Recent Songs, is released. The Songs of Leonard Cohen, a documentary, is filmed in Canada and Europe the same year.
December 1984: Various Positions, Leonard Cohen’s is released abroad. PVC Records issues it in the U.S. two months later after his label, Columbia Records, passes on it.
January 1987: Jennifer Warnes, who has sung backup with Leonard Cohen as Jennifer Warren, issues Famous Blue Raincoat, an album of covers from Cohen’s songbook.
November 10, 1989: Songs of Leonard Cohen, the singer/poet’s 1967 debut, is certified gold by the RIAA.
October 25, 1990: I’m Your Man, by Leonard Cohen, is released. Arguably the poet-singer’s best album since his first, it includes “Tower of Song” and “Everybody Knows.”
November 26, 1991: The Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan is released. It includes cover versions by R.E.M., the Pixies and other indie-rock acts.
November 24, 1992: Leonard Cohen releases The Future, a dyspeptic album reflecting a mental state that inspires a five-year retreat.
November 2, 1993: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, by Leonard Cohen, is published by Pantheon Books. The 432-page collection was assembled by the poet/singer himself.
September 26, 1995: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is released. Contributors include Don Henley, Billy Joel, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, and other stars.
October 9, 2001: Leonard Cohen releases Ten New Songs, his tenth studio album, his first new album in nine years, and his first to chart in the U.S. since 1973’s Live Songs.
October 22, 2002: The Essential Leonard Cohen, a double-disc retrospective compiled by the artist, is released.
August 31, 2004: Judy Collins, whose recordings of Leonard Cohen’s songs introduced the world to the singer/poet in the late Sixties, releases Democracy: Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen.
October 26, 2004: Dear Heather, Leonard Cohen’s second studio album of the new millennium and the 11th of his careeer, is released shortly after the artist turns 70.
September 2005: Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. The documentary includes tribute-concert footage from Sydney, Australia.
February 2007: Leonard Cohen’s first three albums – Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room and Songs of Love and Hate – are reissued in expanded editions to mark his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.
December 11, 2007: Composer Philip Glass’ Book of Longing b – a double-disc song cycle based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen – is released on the Orange Mountain Music label.
March 10, 2008: Leonard Cohen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 22nd annual induction dinner. tk is his presenter.
Essential Recordings
Suzanne
Tower of Song
Famous Blue Raincoat
Hallelujah
Everybody Knows
So Long, Marianne
The Future
Came So Far for Beauty
Bird On the Wire
You Have Loved Enough
Recommended Reading
Billboard magazine
November 28, 1998. (Note: This issue pays tribute to Leonard Cohen.)
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
Leonard Cohen. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
“Hallelujah: 70 Things About Leonard Cohen at 70.”
Time De Lisle. The Guardian (September 17, 2004).
Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words.
Jim Devlin (ed.).London: Omnibus Press, 1998.
Leonard Cohen: Prophet of the Heart.
L.S. Dorman and C.L. Rawlins. London: Omnibus Press, 1990.
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen.
Ira B. Nadel. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007.
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Yankovic ~
You have been invaluable in all of this, keeping everyone informed of all progress, history, and articles you've been able to ferret from out of the media world. My thanks to you and your tremendous commitment. We won't miss a beat on Leonard's induction as long as Yankovic's around
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~ Lizzy
You have been invaluable in all of this, keeping everyone informed of all progress, history, and articles you've been able to ferret from out of the media world. My thanks to you and your tremendous commitment. We won't miss a beat on Leonard's induction as long as Yankovic's around
.~ Lizzy
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
~ Oscar Wilde
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Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
I will email the staff at the Rock Hall and tell them to make the corrections. staff@rockhall.org
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Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
It appears Oct 25 1990 was the original cd release date for the I'm Your Man cd in the USA (go to http://www.cduniverse.com and click on the older version of the album to see). So that's most likely where they came up with that date. That being the case, I'm surprised they got the release date of the first 3 remasters wrong in the timeline. They list them as coming out in Feb 07 but they came out here in the USA on April 24.
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Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Official 2008 Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Press Release
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/2008- ... nouncement
2008 Rock Hall Biographies:
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/inductee-list/
Little Walter
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/little-walter
The Ventures
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/the-ventures
The Dave Clark Five
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/dave-clark-five
Leonard Cohen
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/gamble-and-huff
John Mellencamp
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/john-mellencamp
Madonna
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/madonna
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/2008- ... nouncement
2008 Rock Hall Biographies:
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/inductee-list/
Little Walter
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/little-walter
The Ventures
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/the-ventures
The Dave Clark Five
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/dave-clark-five
Leonard Cohen
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/gamble-and-huff
John Mellencamp
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/john-mellencamp
Madonna
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/madonna
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Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Leonard Cohen & The Halls of Fame
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Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Alphabetically, Leonard Cohen is between Eddie Cochran and Nat "King" Cole at the Rock Hall
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/alphabetical-list/
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/alphabetical-list/
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Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Overall the bio was good. Especially the intro.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
I agree with Lizzytish Yankovic -- many thanks for bringing these Hall of Fame posts together for us.
Will be posting here the invite to the Induction that Linda and I received Thursday when we get it scanned properly.
Also congrats to Jim Devlin for his book making the bibiography!
Dick
Will be posting here the invite to the Induction that Linda and I received Thursday when we get it scanned properly.
Also congrats to Jim Devlin for his book making the bibiography!
Dick
Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Does the invite list the names of all the inductees?Dick wrote:I agree with Lizzytish Yankovic -- many thanks for bringing these Hall of Fame posts together for us.
Will be posting here the invite to the Induction that Linda and I received Thursday when we get it scanned properly.
Dick
Make sure you scan and post all the pages, even the envelope.
Thank you
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Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
As inductees, it lists the 5 performers, the sideman, and the Ahmet .. winner (Gamble and Huff). Will there be any others?
Good idea on envelope ..
Good idea on envelope ..
Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
No, that's everything.Dick wrote:As inductees, it lists the 5 performers, the sideman, and the Ahmet .. winner (Gamble and Huff). Will there be any others?
Good idea on envelope ..
I have posted all of Leonard Cohen's Hall of Fame bios on the Songwriters Hall of Fame forum page.
Hopefully it will wake them up and have the voters kicking themselves for not inducting him last year.
You might have to log in to view the forum. I'm not sure.
http://www.songhall.org/index.php/forums/viewforum/7/
http://www.songhall.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/66/
http://www.songhall.org/index.php/forum ... ad/66/P15/
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Re: 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Famous Names in Leonard Cohen's Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Biography
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/2008- ... nouncement
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/inductee-list/
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/alphabetical-list/
In order of first appearance:
Judy Collins, Jeff Buckley, Bono, R.E.M., Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, The Buckskins, Federico Garcia Lorca, Irving Layton, Jack Kerouac, Robert Sward, John Hammond, Phil Spector, Rufus Wainwright, Allison Krauss, The Pixies, Nick Cave, Don Henley, Billy Joel, Elton John, Joshu Sasaki-Roshi, Anjani, U2, Beth Orton, Bruce Springsteen, William Ruhlmann, Pico Iyer, Jennifer Warnes, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Jim Devlin, L.S. Dorman, C.L. Rawlins, Ira Nadel.
Induction Speech by: COMING SOON!
Other References to Leonard Cohen at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame:
John Simon Comes to the Rock Hall for “From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits”
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/john-simon-release/
John Simon produced the music of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Band; Simon and Garfunkel; Leonard Cohen; Blood, Sweat and Tears and many more.
After attending Princeton, John Simon joined Columbia Records as a producer-in-training. His first pop record was Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle. He went on to produce some of the biggest records of the 1960s: Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company; most of Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel; Leonard Cohen’s first album; the first album by Blood, Sweat and Tears and the first two albums by the Band.
STI Lesson 45 - Democracy…Not Yet!
http://www.rockhall.com/teacher/sti-lesson-45/
This is a long one! Must Read!!!
Day Two: CD player/CD and class quantity of lyrics of-Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy” / poster paper or oak tag
Distribute lyrics and play Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy” to the class. Students will analyze the lyrics and answer on paper and/or brainstorm:
What is the main idea or message of the song?
List the issues of contemporary society that are highlighted by the song writer/performer?
Explain the chorus lyrics and use of metaphor.
How does “Democracy” compare or contrast with “My Country Tis Of Thee”?
Discuss how the two songs of the same subject can differ in their lyric content so much.
“Democracy” recorded by Leonard Cohen (Capitol,1992); written by Leonard Cohen; Sony/ATV Songs LLC.
Steve Douglas - Inducted 2003
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/steve-douglas/
In the 1970s, Douglas would play on Spector-produced projects by Cher, Leonard Cohen and the Ramones.
Jackson Browne - Inducted 2004
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/jackson-browne/
In 1967 he ventured to New York, brushing against Andy Warhol’s scene and befriending Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed.
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/2008- ... nouncement
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/leonard-cohen
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/inductee-list/
http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/alphabetical-list/
In order of first appearance:
Judy Collins, Jeff Buckley, Bono, R.E.M., Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, The Buckskins, Federico Garcia Lorca, Irving Layton, Jack Kerouac, Robert Sward, John Hammond, Phil Spector, Rufus Wainwright, Allison Krauss, The Pixies, Nick Cave, Don Henley, Billy Joel, Elton John, Joshu Sasaki-Roshi, Anjani, U2, Beth Orton, Bruce Springsteen, William Ruhlmann, Pico Iyer, Jennifer Warnes, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Jim Devlin, L.S. Dorman, C.L. Rawlins, Ira Nadel.
Induction Speech by: COMING SOON!
Other References to Leonard Cohen at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame:
John Simon Comes to the Rock Hall for “From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits”
http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/john-simon-release/
John Simon produced the music of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Band; Simon and Garfunkel; Leonard Cohen; Blood, Sweat and Tears and many more.
After attending Princeton, John Simon joined Columbia Records as a producer-in-training. His first pop record was Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle. He went on to produce some of the biggest records of the 1960s: Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company; most of Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel; Leonard Cohen’s first album; the first album by Blood, Sweat and Tears and the first two albums by the Band.
STI Lesson 45 - Democracy…Not Yet!
http://www.rockhall.com/teacher/sti-lesson-45/
This is a long one! Must Read!!!
Day Two: CD player/CD and class quantity of lyrics of-Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy” / poster paper or oak tag
Distribute lyrics and play Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy” to the class. Students will analyze the lyrics and answer on paper and/or brainstorm:
What is the main idea or message of the song?
List the issues of contemporary society that are highlighted by the song writer/performer?
Explain the chorus lyrics and use of metaphor.
How does “Democracy” compare or contrast with “My Country Tis Of Thee”?
Discuss how the two songs of the same subject can differ in their lyric content so much.
“Democracy” recorded by Leonard Cohen (Capitol,1992); written by Leonard Cohen; Sony/ATV Songs LLC.
Steve Douglas - Inducted 2003
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/steve-douglas/
In the 1970s, Douglas would play on Spector-produced projects by Cher, Leonard Cohen and the Ramones.
Jackson Browne - Inducted 2004
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/jackson-browne/
In 1967 he ventured to New York, brushing against Andy Warhol’s scene and befriending Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed.
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