I couldn't help crying after they died. )
Give me an afterlife of leonard cohen.
So I can sigh forever-Nirvana's Mint Tea
Cover and tribute album:
The famous blue raincoat Jennifer Warnes 199 1
I'm Your Fan-Song of leonard cohen 199 1
Song Tower-Song of leonard cohen 1995
Leonard cohen Studio Album
1 Song of leonard cohen? 1968
2 "Songs in the Room"? 1March 969
3 Song of Love and Hate 197 1
4 "The New Skin of the Old Museum" 1974.
5 "The Death of a Woman"? 1977
6 "Recent Songs"? 1979
7 "Various Postures"? 1985
8 "I am your man"? 1988
9 Future 1992
10 Ten New Songs? 200 1 10 month
1 1 Dear Heather? June 5, 2004 to1October 38, 2004
12 "old ideas"? 2012 65438+1October 30th
13 "Hot Issues"? 2065438+September 2004
14 You want it to get dark 20 16
15? Thank you for dancing "2019165438+1October 22nd.
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Leonard Norman Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen.
Born in Montreal, Canada
A celebrity with the same name: Da Vinci? 1452 April 15 (April 23, Gregorian calendar)-1565438+May 2, 2009 Italian, a representative of the European Renaissance, is also an incredible genius, involving sketch, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music and mathematics.
Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio1974165438+1October 1 1 Born in Los Angeles, California, USA, he is a film actor and producer.
Often mentioned as long as Cohen: Al Pacino, dustin hoffman.
Nickname: "Poet Laureate of Pessimism",
? Selling desperate grocers,
? The melancholy godfather,
? Prince of depression
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20 1618 October, David Bowie released a new album, Black Star, which has just been released. 65438+654381On October 8th, David Bowie died of liver cancer at the age of 69.
In the same year, Cohen released a new album "You Want It Black" on June 265438+1October 265438+1October 0, and died in the United States on June 265438+1October 7 at the age of 82.
This year, Marianne wrote in So Long that Marianne died before Cohen on July 29th at the age of 8 1. Cohen wrote to greet Marianne,
Sigh the decline brought by old age, tell your deep love for Marianne, bid farewell to your old friend and meet you again at the other end of the road.
Cohen gave his last interview for his new album in The New Yorker. Facing death, Cohen said that he was ready, and that there were still unfinished works. "They are not bad, but I'm afraid I can't finish singing these songs." A word became a prophecy.
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Cohen's elegant farewell has become more and more popular with his age.
"According to NME, after leonard cohen's death, the sales of albums and singles in the US market increased by more than 400%, and his last studio album" You Want It to Dim "increased by more than 197%."
? On July 17, 2008, in the performance of O2 Arena in London, Cohen played a nifty keyboard solo, and the audience couldn't help booing. Cohen smiled lovingly and replied, "That's very kind of you!" .
? In 2008, 74-year-old Cohen was swept away by his agent and lover, and all his savings were gone. Cohen was forced to go on tour to earn some pension, which lasted for five years. Cohen, who is still in a suit and tie, has a deeper voice than when he was young, and the old Cohen has more charm than the half-dead voice when he was young. Cohen, a gentleman, sang on the stage with deep affection or whispering, while the audience was fascinated by the songs and music of the old man and the team. This series of huge performances now looks like Cohen's elegant farewell.
? As a teenager, Cohen studied guitar to pick up girls, and later sang his own songs in cafes. However, Cohen made his debut as a poet before mixing music circles. At that time, Cohen studied at McGill University and met a group of influential poets in Canadian literary circles in the school literary circle. And went to study at Columbia University in new york, when the Beat Movement was in the ascendant. As a marginal person who lives in a big city and is out of tune with the mainstream society, Cohen attended many beat parties and was interested in the way Kerouac and others recited poems with jazz accompaniment. When he returned to Canada, he also played poetry recitation with music and organized a country band to perform at a student party. However, Cohen has no confidence in his guitar level. The low and dull voice made him feel inferior (now it's called amazing subwoofer sound). Cohen believes that his music hobby can only be maintained at the amateur level of self-entertainment, and there is no future for development. Literature is his right path.
? Cohen, who inherited a fortune, lived all over the world when he was young, in London, England, in Hydra Island, Greece, and occasionally returned to his hometown of Montreal. Later, Cohen found that he could not make a living by writing, and writing poetry would eventually come to a dead end. In order to make money, 32-year-old Cohen joined the music industry as a singer. Although it was not a very smooth thing, his transformation from a poet to a singer was very successful. When I look around new york for record companies to promote his songs, I often get the answer: "Don't you think you are a little old for this job?" Cohen, born in 1934, is a little older than Elvis Presley. ) 1968 was released at a time when the United States was in turmoil, including the democratic revolution, Vietnam War, political assassination and fear of nuclear weapons. At that time, American pop music was folk songs, and Bob Dy, a master of folk songs, a protest singer and a spokesman for the times, was the representative. In people's eyes, folk songs are the spokesmen of thoughts and responsibilities. 1965, Bob Dylan picked up the electric guitar and started to rock, which was regarded as a traitor by folk lovers. Even during his tour in England, he shouted "Judas" under the stage. Rock was a decadent thing at that time, but thanks to Dylan's actions, it became the savior of rock, and many excellent songwriters appeared after the rebirth of rock. Cohen's private songs do not have a good market in this environment, but the sales of records in the United States are not ideal, but they have achieved very good results in Europe. Cohen said that he never sold enough records to ease the economic situation so as to support the children, their mothers and their own lives. Cohen has been writing constantly, which has become a habit.
? Cohen's concerts are mostly held in Europe. In the United States, Cohen's fame was only a flash in the pan in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and then completely disappeared from public view. Until 199 1, a double album named "I am your fan" suddenly appeared on the market, which included a group of popular young artists covering Cohen's songs. In the same year, Jennifer, a female singer who has been the harmony of Cohen's concert since 1972? Jannifer Warnes published a cover album called The Famous Blue Raincoat, which once ranked eighth in the American music charts. Because of its excellent recording and singing, this record has caused great repercussions in the circle of audio lovers in Asia. Many people got to know Cohen through this record.
1995 Another album called "Tower of Songs" was released to pay tribute to Cohen, including Elton? John and Billy? A large number of famous artists including Joel, Bono (lead singer of U2 band) and Sting (lead singer of police band) covered Cohen's songs. This shows that Cohen's reputation has not decreased with the passage of time, but has become more and more attractive.
Cohen is often in a pessimistic and depressed self-confidence state. With more and more tours, Cohen gradually lost control and even collapsed, making it difficult to maintain the performance.
From 65438 to 0994, 60-year-old Cohen, after a disastrous trip and the breakdown of his marriage, cut his hair and became a monk, fled into an empty door, and lived in seclusion in the meditation center on Bald Mountain in Southern California. He has been a monk for five years, and his legal name is Jikan.
Because the agent's money disappeared, Cohen had to tour and join the team of senior performers. Fortunately, people saw Cohen again on the stage and trotted to the stage, which was fascinating.
Finally, Cohen, as a wise elder, left a deep impression on people.
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Cohen's musical style and that crazy hippie era
Cohen, like Bob Dylan and neil young (both Canadians like Cohen), is a folk singer. The song style is folk songs (folk songs, usually played in the form of acoustic guitar or accompanied by banjo of country music). Famous songs generally refer to ancient songs handed down from generation to generation. Different from relaxed and happy country music, folk songs generally involve some serious and profound topics. In addition to the theme of love, there are often thoughts about life and death and stories about the hardships of life. Later, in the 1960s, folk singers directly wrote a large number of protest songs related to politics and war, participated in political rally performances and led people to sing to create momentum for the activities), folk rock (folk music compiled by rock bands, so Cohen was also a rock musician and a singer who didn't look like rock when he entered the Rock Hall of Fame), what's the difference between this and Bob? Dylan and neil young's explosive music and Cohen's songs are generally for his personal love life. Dylan's profound lyrics became the cultural symbol of that era together with him, and Cohen's extremely personal songs also aroused people's * * * resonance because of his universal melancholy feelings.
Many things happened in the sixties and seventies, and the whole world was in a noisy state. It was a rock time that people often miss. It was an era when rock music was born from its embryonic form and developed rapidly after its early death. Many musicians of that era became legends one by one. Some people are trapped in alcohol and drugs, but unfortunately they die young, which makes people sad. Some survived and continued to tour as musical dinosaurs, or occasionally appeared, which also reminded people of that seemingly ancient era.
? The "beat generation" evolved into hippies, and the Vietnam War finally broke out the hippie movement in an all-round way. They lead a utopian commune life with an anti-traditional attitude. They are poor, casual, malnourished, with long hair shawls and body odor. They oppose the government, the war and try to explore their hearts. They are lost, lost in the disappointment of the world, full of romantic feelings, trying to love everything and everyone.
? Hippie movement is accompanied by anarchist community activities and some large-scale group gatherings, and it is also the origin of some series of music festivals.
1967 The Monterrey Music Festival, advertised as "Music, Love and Flowers", became the originator of large-scale music festivals in later generations. Smash represents that both the World Health Organization and jimi hendrix participated in this music festival. Who was a little afraid that being behind Jimi would bring more pressure to the band's performance, and magically won the chance to play first by guessing coins. Who smashed its own equipment at the end, and the performance was extremely wonderful. After that, jimi hendrix went one step further, lit the guitar, and then destroyed it. This sacrificial scene became a landmark event of Monterey Music Festival, but The Mamas & the Papas's performance, the final finale, was almost completely forgotten.
The Mamas & the Papas's Philip (masterpiece "California Dream") wrote a propaganda song "San Francisco", "If you go to San Francisco, you must wear some flowers in your hair ..." Scott Mckenzie sang this song, and his lazy voice echoed in that beautiful summer day. People come to San Francisco wearing flowers, which is called "summer of love" in history, hence the name "flower girl" for hippies. On the lawn of Golden Gate Park, a large-scale performance art performance called "Human Be-In" was held. Ginsburg led everyone to shout in unison on the stage, and Timothy Leary, a psychology professor who was expelled from Harvard University, shouted a resounding slogan: "Look at your heart, care about society and quit the world". This slogan will appear from time to time in the story of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
? Two years later, the slogan of 1969 was not the famous Woodstock Music Festival held in Woodstock, which made the hippie movement reach its peak. Due to the opposition of Woodstock residents, the music festival was finally held on a nearby farm. ? The traffic paralysis caused by the event blocked many participants hundreds of miles away, completely disrupted the performance order of the band, and finally even had to use military aircraft to transport personnel and equipment. Ricky Havens, the first folk singer who was temporarily arrested to perform (later, he covered Dylan's "Like a Woman" at Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert, with outstanding technique, which attracted cheers. ) I have been persuaded back long ago. ? The sharp increase in the number of people has also led to many problems such as food shortage and toilet shortage. Faced with a group of hippies, Woodstock residents are of course worried for no reason. These rambling little bastards may not do anything. A series of problems related to the safety of hundreds of thousands of people were finally alleviated through the coordination of all parties. Later, there was nowhere to hide after a heavy rain, so everyone simply played with mud and completely played back to nature. On the last morning of the music festival, jimi hendrix performed on stage, and the fans who stayed behind were lucky enough to watch Jimmy's interpretation of "Song of the Stars and Stripes". The music is mixed with the sound effects of simulating the roar of airplanes and artillery bombardment, making a unique musical footnote for the era of democratic revolution and anti-war? .
1970 The 3rd Isle of Wight Music Festival was held in Afton Farm, Isle of Wight, England from the morning of August 28th to 3 1. The Isle of Wight Music Festival is known as the largest outdoor music festival in the history of modern pop music. This music festival with a large number of participants in that year surpassed the famous Woodstock Music Festival with a conservative estimate of more than 600,000 people. During the three-day concert, the situation was frequent, fans in the audience rioted from time to time, and even Chris Christoffson was driven off the stage. Cohen and his team performed in the early hours of 3 1. At this point, the chaotic scene accumulated in three days has almost become a flammable and explosive powder keg. A little carelessness will lead to riots, and even musicians will flinch in the face of angry audiences. In the end, Cohen's team's slow performance created incredible things. Cohen's charming voice wrapped in loneliness and sadness calmed 600 thousand's uneasy mood, saved the Isle of Wight, and the music festival ended successfully.
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Melancholy rich second generation
"Honey, I was born in a suit."
"I tried jeans, but they always make me uncomfortable."
The film natural born killers has stylized images and original music. One of them is Cohen's poem "Waiting for a Miracle", and the old man's deep voice slowly flows out, which is very cool. Cohen has been living a cool-looking life, rich, free, and bohemian. When it comes to Cohen's character, he is a pessimistic person.
Leonard cohen 1934 September 2 1 was born in a Jewish middle-class family in Montreal. Great-grandfather was the founder of the Jewish community in this city. His grandfather runs a clothing factory, and his father also works in this clothing factory. This family lives a carefree life on this business. The life of the middle class endowed Cohen with dignity and elegance all his life, and the image of an old-school gentleman seemed out of place among lazy hippies.
Cohen's father took part in World War I and spent most of his time at home recuperating after coming home injured. Cohen's mother is nearly twenty years younger than her father and is the daughter of a Jewish priest. Cohen's childhood living environment was strongly Jewish, and the Jewish rules and regulations did not leave a good impression on his young mind.
? When Cohen was 9 years old, his father died of illness. The death of his father in his early years gave Cohen a heavy blow. The next year, Cohen saw the photos of the Jewish concentration camp for the first time, and the cruel sight gave him great stimulation. These two things made young Cohen feel pessimistic about the world prematurely. He began to doubt the correctness of Judaism, and then doubted the existence of God. The widowed mother was very strict with Cohen, and little Cohen gradually became silent. Often stay alone in the room, staring blankly at the wall. Soon, his lifelong hobby entered his life, and Cohen began to have a strong interest in the opposite sex. Since then, chasing girls has become the biggest hobby in his life. His first girlfriend's father is a hypnotist. Cohen studied hypnosis and practiced it effectively. He put a spell on the maid at home to make her take off her clothes and satisfy her curiosity about the opposite sex. What happened after taking off clothes is unknown.
? Like all rock music practitioners, Cohen discovered the guitar as a girl-picking artifact in his youth. In order to catch up with girls, Cohen began to learn guitar at the age of 15, and then finally embarked on the road of music. In the same year, he happened to read the Spanish poet Federico? Garcia. The poems of Federico Carsia lorca are deeply moving. Lorca is a romantic poet who is very popular in Spain. 1936 he returned to China to participate in the civil war and was killed by the reactionary Franco dictatorship. Cohen worships lorca very much and vows to be a poet like lorca.
? When attending a summer camp organized by the school, he first read the song book "The Voice of the People" compiled by American left-wing folk singers such as Peter Seager, and Cohen couldn't put it down. He found that songs can not only be used to praise love, but also express the singer's views on society and attitude towards life. He even had an odd idea that Hitler was actually defeated by folk songs.
After graduating from high school, Cohen was admitted to McGill University with ordinary grades, majoring in art. He also joined a literary circle and began to write poems. In this circle dominated by school professors, he was lucky enough to meet a group of poets who are very influential in Canadian literature. Among them, the poet Irving Leiden had the greatest influence on him. Leiden advocated descriptive in poetry. He thinks that the only way to save the poet's soul is through sex, which is somewhat odd and accords with Cohen's taste. Cohen not only likes beautiful women, but also has a psychology of worshipping almost all women. He once told others that he wanted to live in a matriarchal society because women are the best choice to manage the world. He has a strange logic about women. He thinks that any woman is just a part of the women's world. He never says "I love you" to a woman. In his mind, love is for the whole woman. Only when he has intimate relationships with many different women can he appreciate the beauty of the whole woman world. Later, however, he still failed to avoid custom and was heartbroken by several lovelorn people.
? During this period, Cohen also began to try to smoke marijuana and ecstasy. However, he never regarded them as a pastime, but had an almost religious attitude towards drugs. In his view, the general religion has been alienated by dogmatism and utilitarianism, and the illusion caused by hallucinogens is the purest religious experience. In fact, he has always been interested in people's spiritual world, which is not difficult to explain why he has been keen on learning hypnosis since he was a child.
? Gradually, Cohen gained some fame in Canadian poetry. 1956, the American "Folk Road" record company published a poem recitation record, and selected six Canadian poets to recite their works. Cohen said the youngest of them. Shortly after the record was published, Cohen came to study at Columbia University in new york, and soon integrated into the emerging "Beat School" movement. He attended many "Beat School" parties and listened to Ginsberg and other American colleagues recite poems. During his stay in new york, Cohen was also interested in the way Kerouac and others used jazz to accompany poetry reading. After returning to Canada, he took the lead in adding music accompaniment to poetry reading. Cohen never forgot his music hobby during his college years, and organized a country band to play folk dance music for everyone at the student party. But he has no confidence in his guitar level, and his low and plain voice makes him feel inferior. He feels that his music hobby can only be maintained at the amateur level of self-entertainment, and there is no future for development. Literature is his right path.
After returning to Canada from new york, Cohen tried to take over the family clothing factory, but soon got tired of it. Fortunately, in 1959, he won the literary prize awarded by the Canadian government. Although he had only 2000 yuan, he finally left Canada and went to London, England. He wants to change the environment and motivate himself by studying abroad. He bought a typewriter and a blue raincoat on his first day in London. Later, this sturdy typewriter accompanied him for 26 years, and that blue raincoat became his favorite, because he liked the mysterious feeling of travelers wearing it. Unfortunately, this raincoat was later stolen by thieves. Cohen wrote a song "Faomous blue rain coat" and left it in his memory forever. The deep loneliness in the song came to my face and made people cry: "At four o'clock in the morning at the end of December, I wrote to you and asked if I was safe. Although new york is very cold, I love this place ... "