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Leonard Cohen sings
Leonard Cohen starts his 2010 Tour in Caen, France, on March 1st, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010
Leonard Cohen, who was born in 1934, lives in Montreal – and goes every day, when home, to a bagel place on the corner of Marie-Anne and Saint Laurent for breakfast.
But all too soon he will once again be packing his bags. After Caen, his program is Lille on March 3rd, 2010; Strasbourg on March 5th, 2010; Marseille on March 7th, 2010; Grenoble on March 9th, 2010; Tours on March 11th, 2010; Zagreb on March 15th, 2010.
Leonard Cohen’s professional life is organized by AEG’s Rob Hallett, the music promoter who has turned London’s disastrously unsuccessful Millennium Dome into what is now the hugely-successful O2 Arena.
For four decades, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning as time goes on.
His songs have set a virtually unmatched standard in their seriousness and range. Sex, spirituality, religion, power – he has relentlessly examined the largest issues in human lives, always with a full appreciation of how elusive answers can be to the vexing questions he raises.
But those questions, and the journey he has traveled in seeking to address them, are the ever-shifting substance of his work, as well as the reasons why his songs never lose their overwhelming emotional force.