Leonard Cohen RIP

[kalifire]

2016 continues to deliver.

 

[FloorFiller]

Fuck man just woke up in the middle of the night and saw this  eerily similar circumstances to Bowie what with the new album etc. That new album is fantastic. RIP

[bexj]

Dreadful news. Im gutted.

 

[Zoo Music Girl]

Devastated. This fucking year

So glad I got to see him a few times. That Glastonbury performance included. 

[The Red Telephone]

[Avalon_Fields]

What a sad year. Glad I saw him once at our favourite place...

[TomViolence]

Tragic news once again . This year can't end soon enough. R.I.P Leonard.

[jparx]

Ugh fucks sake. I'm done with this year. What utter shite news to wake up to.

[mungo57]

wasn't a fan but I can appreciate the man's legacy.

May he rest in peace.

[GlastoSimon]

Fucking hell he died on Monday. What an awful year.

[russycarps]

RIP Leonard.

Fuck this year. The crack is getting narrower and narrower.

[Woffy]

I read this in the Guardian just last week. It was posted on here somewhere. 

Fucking hell:

Marianne Ihlen, Cohen’s most famous muse, died in July this year.

Jan Christian Mollestad, a documentary maker and friend of Ihlen, shared a letter Cohen had written to her shortly before she died:

"Well Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon.

Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.

And you know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that.

But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road"

Two days after the letters was read to her, Ihlen, immortalised by Cohen in So Long, Marianne and Bird on a Wire, died. She was 81.

[Hugh Jass]

RIP

[kerplunk]

Take a bow Len

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

Suzanne is one of the most intimate experiences I've ever had.

[scorp]

Here's the video clip that Emily Eavis put on twitter last week after the death of Leonard Cohen was announced. Cohen didn't permit the BBC to film his 2008 session on the Pyramid Stage. A few of us, unknown to each other, used our cameras to do some filming, unaware of that. So, here is  "Hallelujah",  by our beloved Leonard Cohen, shot by me - "routeoz02" on youtube. Love you, Len, and thanks for the show and all your songs since the 1960s and poems since the 1950s  xxx 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2016 by scorp

[Avalon_Fields]

Thanks once again efestivals for getting me into music I have missed, You Want It Darker album, it's very moving, reminds me of the near-death Johnny Cash American Recordings. 2016 is really difficult in so many ways, but book-ended by Black Star and this is bloody hard to deal with.

[scrippit]

That opening title track... what a magical way to leave us. Just perfect.