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Lädt ... I'm your man. Das Leben des Leonard Cohen (2012)von Sylvie Simmons
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An evening out for Paul Bryant. Ian Bell was in town to open a display of his photography of rock musicians and I was lucky enough to get to talk to him. Paul, I’m sure you are going to want to start with the bad news. Me: Have you photographed Leonard Cohen? Yes, a few times? Me: And Bob Dylan? Maybe half a dozen. Me: What do you think of Dylan’s concerts? Picture being at a Heston Blumenthal dinner. It’s cost you $500. The table is lovely, the view gorgeous, the menu looks fantastic. And then you get served up cheese sandwiches. Not even special cheese sandwiches. Bob Dylan’s like that. All the elements are there, but you get something else. For a while I kept going to them figuring that I’d go to the right one, but there isn’t a right one. Do you know his radio show? Me: No He had this radio show for a long time, it was in themes and it was witty, the guy’s got a great sense of humour. But he isn’t willing to bring any of it to the table when he’s performing. He almost died in a car crash at one point and started acting like maybe presenting his music in a concert wasn’t the worst thing in the world that could happen to him. But it didn’t last for long. Meeting him was no fun either. Me: So who do you prefer out of Dylan and Leonard Cohen? I’m Team Leonard. Dylan gives nothing at his concerts. Leonard gives everything. He’s respectful, he’s…. Paul, I will spare you the rave review of Leonard. You will be pleased to hear that there is good news. The Ian Bell I talked to was erudicate and entertaining and informative….and… is considering writing a book one day. It was THE WRONG IAN BELL. So you can relax. Maybe Bob’s best after all. An evening out for Paul Bryant. Ian Bell was in town to open a display of his photography of rock musicians and I was lucky enough to get to talk to him. Paul, I’m sure you are going to want to start with the bad news. Me: Have you photographed Leonard Cohen? Yes, a few times? Me: And Bob Dylan? Maybe half a dozen. Me: What do you think of Dylan’s concerts? Picture being at a Heston Blumenthal dinner. It’s cost you $500. The table is lovely, the view gorgeous, the menu looks fantastic. And then you get served up cheese sandwiches. Not even special cheese sandwiches. Bob Dylan’s like that. All the elements are there, but you get something else. For a while I kept going to them figuring that I’d go to the right one, but there isn’t a right one. Do you know his radio show? Me: No He had this radio show for a long time, it was in themes and it was witty, the guy’s got a great sense of humour. But he isn’t willing to bring any of it to the table when he’s performing. He almost died in a car crash at one point and started acting like maybe presenting his music in a concert wasn’t the worst thing in the world that could happen to him. But it didn’t last for long. Meeting him was no fun either. Me: So who do you prefer out of Dylan and Leonard Cohen? I’m Team Leonard. Dylan gives nothing at his concerts. Leonard gives everything. He’s respectful, he’s…. Paul, I will spare you the rave review of Leonard. You will be pleased to hear that there is good news. The Ian Bell I talked to was erudicate and entertaining and informative….and… is considering writing a book one day. It was THE WRONG IAN BELL. So you can relax. Maybe Bob’s best after all. An evening out for Paul Bryant. Ian Bell was in town to open a display of his photography of rock musicians and I was lucky enough to get to talk to him. Paul, I’m sure you are going to want to start with the bad news. Me: Have you photographed Leonard Cohen? Yes, a few times? Me: And Bob Dylan? Maybe half a dozen. Me: What do you think of Dylan’s concerts? Picture being at a Heston Blumenthal dinner. It’s cost you $500. The table is lovely, the view gorgeous, the menu looks fantastic. And then you get served up cheese sandwiches. Not even special cheese sandwiches. Bob Dylan’s like that. All the elements are there, but you get something else. For a while I kept going to them figuring that I’d go to the right one, but there isn’t a right one. Do you know his radio show? Me: No He had this radio show for a long time, it was in themes and it was witty, the guy’s got a great sense of humour. But he isn’t willing to bring any of it to the table when he’s performing. He almost died in a car crash at one point and started acting like maybe presenting his music in a concert wasn’t the worst thing in the world that could happen to him. But it didn’t last for long. Meeting him was no fun either. Me: So who do you prefer out of Dylan and Leonard Cohen? I’m Team Leonard. Dylan gives nothing at his concerts. Leonard gives everything. He’s respectful, he’s…. Paul, I will spare you the rave review of Leonard. You will be pleased to hear that there is good news. The Ian Bell I talked to was erudicate and entertaining and informative….and… is considering writing a book one day. It was THE WRONG IAN BELL. So you can relax. Maybe Bob’s best after all.
It might not count as the most illuminating anecdote in Sylvie Simmons’ exhaustive new biography of Leonard Cohen, but it surely lingers as one of the more memorable. In the mid 1990s, Cohen, by then already in his early sixties, cloisters himself for five years at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center high in the mountains near Los Angeles, where the daily routine involves a combination of prolonged bouts of meditation and physical labour, lasting roughly from 3 a.m. until 10 p.m. Cohen’s only breaks from this ascetic regimen are the infrequent occasions when he leaves the monastery to spend a couple of days at his home in Los Angeles, where he dines on Filet-o-Fish sandwiches and vintage French wine, while gorging on episodes of Jerry Springer’s raucous TV show. From the outset, Simmons sketches a portrait of a person who gained the spotlight without ever losing his essential reticence. During his high school years in Montreal, Cohen was the shy kid who, paradoxically, became president of the student council. More significantly, as his career progressed, first through poetry and prose and later through music, he never quite fit the profile – in appearance, style, or attitude – of the generation from which he emerged. Age difference accounted for part of this. Cohen was already 32 – officially past the age of being trusted by the hippie/yippie set – when he tried to enlist in the Israeli army during the Six-Day War in June of 1967. Simmons, a London-based journalist known for her authoritative contributions to the U.K. music magazine MOJO, has written something more than a disposable rock biography. The book is assiduously researched and resounds with voices: Cohen’s own, but also those of his friends, acquaintances, and former lovers. The narrative also offers a close reading of Cohen’s work – not only the songs but also the poetry and prose – in the process shedding valuable light on the alluring, inscrutable author of those enduring creations. Prestigeträchtige Auswahlen
Der Gentleman des Pop: sein Leben - eine Legende. Er ist der letzte Poet der Popkultur, der Womanzier mit der tiefen Stimme, der melancholische Songwriter, der ganze Generationen beeinflusst hat, rastlose Seele und schillernde Persönlichkeit zugleich. Die renommierte Musikjournalistin Sylvie Simmons ist der lebenden Legende auf den Grund gegangen. Für ihre einzigartige Biographie über das Leben von Leonard Cohen hat sie mit mehr als 100 von Cohens Wegbegleitern gesprochen - seinen Musen, Musiker-Kollegen wie Nick Cave, seinen Produzenten, seinen engsten Freunden aus Kindertagen - und nicht zuletzt mit dem öffentlichkeitsscheuen Leonard Cohen selbst. Herausgekommen ist eine umfassende, sorgfältig recherchierte Biographie, die faszinierende Details offenbart und eine neue Perspektive auf das Leben einer der ungewöhnlichsten Lichtgestalten der Musikgeschichte wirft. Sylvie Simmons ist eine der bekanntesten Musikjournalistinnen Großbritanniens. In den späten 1970er Jahren begab sie sich auf eine musikalische Pilgerreise nach Los Angeles, wo sie als Korrespondentin für britische Musikzeitschriften begann. Ihre Interviews und Artikel erschienen in zahllosen Büchern und Zeitschriften. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Partway through the book I listened to one of the famous old Leonard Cohen songs, and then put on an album of his hits to understand better what the book was describing. I can't say that it did anything for me, but the book was still enjoyable through to the very last page. ( )