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On the Road, for Reasons Practical and Spiritual
Religious devotion weighs heavily in both music and life for Leonard Cohen, and it takes many forms.
February 25, 2009artsNewsDown From the Mountain, Singing With More Serenity
Does spending the better part of five years in a mountaintop abbey, meditating and cooking, change a person? Leonard Cohen, having descended last year from the enclave of Joshu Sasaki Roshi in the hills above Los Angeles, would like to suggest that he is still the same old romantic known for his ways with wine, women and song. Or perhaps not.
October 28, 2001artsNewsLeonard Cohen: Philosophical Songwriter on a Wire
Leonard Cohen's songs invoke countless romantic liaisons, countless nuances of yearning and loss. To listeners who remain unmoved, particularly in the United States, Mr. Cohen's voice is a croaking monotone.
October 11, 1995BiographyLeonard Cohen, the Lord Byron of Rock-and-Roll
Leonard Cohen speaks like a poet. He culls a phrase like "blacken pages" where lesser mortals might simply say "write;" he has a store of aphorisms at his beck and call.
November 29, 1992artsBiographyLeonard Cohen Reflects Darkly On the World
Leonard Cohen occupies a special niche in the roster of composer-performers who achieved prominence in the late 1960's. The singer, poet and guitarist writes authentically poetic songs whose quasi-Biblical lyrics transform personal experience into the language of sacred myth.
July 9, 1988artsReviewARTICLES ABOUT LEONARD COHEN
An Appraisal: George Jones in Real Life and Real Time
A former pop music critic recalls an encounter on a tour bus in 1977 with the country music star.
April 26, 2013, Friday
Confessions of a Man in a Fedora
A courtly yet wry Leonard Cohen, now 78, made for a different kind of pop concert on Thursday night at the Barclays Center.
December 22, 2012, Saturday
Time Passes, but a Song’s Time Doesn’t
“The Holy or the Broken” tells the story of “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen’s 1984 song whose popularity seems only to solidify.
December 10, 2012, Monday
Crazy for Love
A Leonard Cohen biography considers the life behind the songs.
October 14, 2012, Sunday
Searching the Soul of a Soulful Singer
Leonard Cohen is universally misunderstood, but that doesn’t matter: the biography “I’m Your Man” is a mesmerizing labor of love.
September 14, 2012, FridayBook Has a Role In Valley Lawsuit
Leonard Cohen's ''Book of Longing'' must be the most discussed book in Silicon Valley since Walter Isaacson's life of Steve Jobs. The Canadian songwriter's collection of verse and drawings, first published in 2006, plays a highly visible role in the suit Ellen Pao has filed against her employer, the venture firm of Kleiner Perkins. That case will again be in the news on Friday, when Kleiner goes to court to argue that it should go to arbitration. When thinking about the case, ''Book of Long...
July 23, 2012, MondayLeonard Cohen to Kick Off Tour on Halloween
Leonard Cohen will hit the road in October to promote his new album, "Old Ideas."
May 03, 2012, ThursdaySouth Asian A Capella Groups Fuse Bollywood and Pop
Indian American singers at universities across the United States have formed a capella bands.
May 01, 2012, TuesdayPrison for Ex-Manager Of Leonard Cohen
The sentencing of an ex-business manager who was convicted last week of harassing Leonard Cohen brought no cries of hallelujah from the singer-songwriter, who said he hoped the ''one-time friend'' would devote herself ''to the lowly practices of self-reform,'' The Guardian reported. Kelley Lynch, a former manager whom Mr. Cohen cut ties with in 2004, was convicted in a Los Angeles court of two counts of leaving or sending harassing or obscene messages and five counts of violating a restrai...
April 21, 2012, SaturdayEx-Manager Is Sentenced to 18 Months for Harassing Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen said it gave him "no pleasure to see my one-time friend shackled to a chair in a court of law, her considerable gifts bent to the service of darkness, deceit and revenge," as the ex-manager, Kelley Lynch, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
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