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We are a charity based in the UK that grants special wishes to terminally ill adults and need your help.

We have received a request from the daughter of a gentleman (Mike) from Leeds who has an aggressive type of prostate cancer with poor prognosis (a few weeks left to live). Mikes daughter has just contacted our charity hoping we would be able to help arrange for him to meet his hero Leonard Cohen. Mike already has tickets to see Leonard in Leeds on the 7th September. We have contact details: rkory@koryrice.com & mrice@koryrice.com which we believe are his management but would like to ensure that they are correct. Could someone please confirm if they are the correct addresses?

Thank you!

Jay

The addresses are correct; use the first one.
Unfortunately the tour management receives so many requests that usually it is not possible to make them happen.

Jarkko has the power to delete the thread, and he chose not to. And I have every confidence in Mr. Kory's ability to respond appropriately to such requests. It's one of the things that management does. If there are any forum members who read this and are moved to offer up in their hearts a prayer or a good wish or a kind thought for a dying man, then the thread will have been of some use to somebody.

I hope this works out, somehow. All the best to the guy, hope he has a great evening regardless of whether he gets to meet Mr Cohen or not. I know for me, meeting Leonard was a fantastic occasion and really filled me with joy. If that can happen for someone in a terrible position like this, I hope it works out. I won't get into what way is best to go about it, but sometimes someone just wants to do something good for someone and tries however they can.

.....echoing your sentiments there(James T)....feelings well expressed - Kenpal

Mike I hope you get your wish. And Mike's daughter I wish you strength. xxx

You'll never know unless you ask, so Mike's loving daughter did the one thing she could to try to make her Dad happy at a very unhappy time for them both.
And, Jay brought it to us here.
I'm hoping for a positive outcome on this heartfelt request.
My very best to Mike and his daughter.

I echo your posting, mirka.

I presume the underlying intention of posting here was the hope that Jarkko would contact Leonard direct with the request.

While such generosity with his time is of course always Leonard's prerogative, the sender must have been most concerned that the message simply might not get through to him before the concert. So I do hope Jarkko has taken the hint and at least cut through the management red-tape by informing Leonard direct.

I hope that, if the request could be honored, it was. While I too am curious, I would rather not see what transpired publicized here in the interests of privacy for all concerned. Just my personal opinion.

As much as I would like to know, too, I agree with you, its4inthemorning.
Your reasoning is sound.
If this man were so blessed as to have it happen, it's too easy to develop into a "Why him, and not [whomever] ?"

mirka wrote:
I don't believe (and certainly hope) there could be more cases like this.

Unfortunately, if you look at Leonard's Facebook page there is probably one of these requests at least once a week. There was one made Sunday, in fact. Not to mention all the requests for some acknowledgement during a concert of the birthday of a parent or spouse or the anniversary of parents.

I make no judgment of the request here, but this is one of the reasons that organizations like Make-A-Wish Foundation and Dream Foundation were formed.