Leonard Cohen...Prince Charles is a fan

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During the interview, Charles grumbled about his sons' taste in music and shed some light on his own preferences.
"I tell you who I also think is wonderful is a chap called Leonard Cohen, do you know him?" Charles said of the brooding poet and singer- songwriter known for songs such as "I'm Your Man." "He's remarkable. ... I mean the orchestration is fantastic and the words, the lyrics and everything, he's a remarkable man, and he has this incredibly sort of laid-back gravelly voice, it's terrific stuff, I think. I enjoy the jazz and things."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/19/D8HMULSG1.html
 
Re: i love cohen

"So Long, Marianne" would has to be in my Top 20 favorite songs of all-time.
 
Charlies a Leonard Cohen fan???WTF???


The worlds gone mad
 
I've been enjoying Cohen for 40 years and today wrote a bit of a eulogy to him:
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COHEN’S SHISH KEBAB

After finishing my writing and reading last night it was a little after 2 a.m. I went downstairs and turned on the TV to rest my eyes and brain before going to bed. I was surprised to see Leonard Cohen in an interview on one of the Australian TV stations.1 The interview inspired me that same afternoon to read about Cohen on the internet. The material here comes from several interview sites.2 “I feel tremendously relieved,” said Cohen in 2005 at the age of 70, “that I’m not worried about my happiness. There are things of course that make me happy…..But what I am so happy about is that the background of distress and discomfort I had had in my life has at last evaporated. It’s not that I don’t feel distressed or sad about things that I see and know and what happens to people around me. It’s not that the emotions don’t come, it’s just that the background is clear. Before…it was very dark. I could pierce the darkness. Before…..there was a kind of mist, a kind of distress over everything, but that has lifted at last. –Ron Price with thanks to 1Leonard Cohen, Interview with Leonard Cohen, August 2nd 2006, 2:00-3:00 A.M. TV; and “An Interview in 2005,” Kari Hesthamar, Los Angeles, 2005.

You’ve been writing poetry
as long as my life’s been
associated with the permeation
of that light, with that most
wonderful and thrilling motion
with the very inception of the
Kingdom of God on earth
when the manifest Standard
began waving in the centre
of the great continent where
we were born and raised.

It’s been a heavy trip for you,
Leonard, and I’m so pleased
your distress and discomfort
has evaporated at last—me too,
Leonard, me too: at last a lifting,
an ease,a tranquillity never known,
forgiveness and an early peach
with all labour put away---well,
not quite all, eh Leonard, eh?---
the heart still cooks, sizzling like,
how did you put it—shish kebab?

Ron Price
August 2nd 2006
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Best wishes Leonard as you go into the late evening of your life.
 
I wonder what the taste of his son is then? :) (or which one was he talking about?)
 
RonPrice said:
I've been enjoying Cohen for 40 years and today wrote a bit of a eulogy to him:

Don't dig his grave just yet! He's got alot of years still left in him. Don't jinx it.
 
No, you are so right: no graves for Cohen yet! After all those years of heaviness and depression, he's got some tranquillity at last and may be go on and on--for decades-in good health and good spirits.-Ron Price, Tasmania:cool:
 
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