Leonard Cohen RIP

DUBACC

2016 has claimed another legend. I was a huge fan, such a beautiful voice. Gutted.

fineso.mom

Ah no.

Oscar Bravo

Cathal Murray on radio 1 in bits, he was actually crying announcing it

Atlantic Dawn

RIP.

Feckin hell 2016 has to be the most insane year ever in terms of high profile deaths and general madness.

Mackman

Reeling in the Years will have to do a special on 2016 alone.

Shane St.

Ah no! His new album is fantastic. A fitting farewell RIP

PTH2009

2016 what the hell ??

Was not into his music but he was a very talented man. RIP

Very sad news but not overly surprising. Going by the lyrics from his recent album, he knew it was coming soon.

"I'm ready, my Lord"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y

Edups

Not again

randy hickey

Didn't he write a letter to an old muse just before she died recently where he said "I will be following you soon" or something to that effect?

Linky

RIP

Edups

sugarman wrote: »

He was 82, is it really that much of a shock?

A grand aul age.

Doesn't make it any less saddening

daithi7

May he rest in peace.

FrKurtFahrt

Goodbye, and may you find your deserved peace. But mainly, thank you.

bodhrandude

RIP dude.

worded

My older siblings were crazy about him and I got to listen to him from a very young age ..... one if the first musicians I ever liked ....

Another genius gone ....

AllGunsBlazing

To quote another singer who has long since passed on himself - 'Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld, so I can sigh eternally.'

Robsweezie

Deleted User wrote: »

Very sad news but not overly surprising. Going by the lyrics from his recent album, he knew it was coming soon.

"I'm ready, my Lord"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y

eerily similar to the bowie album:(

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Got the chance to see him lives in Dublin a few years back, so glad I got to do that- would have been delighted to be there even if he just phoned it in but it was one of the best gigs of my life. I know he had a good innings and all but this is still such a loss, he was crushing it right up to the last album. True musical legend and such a charismatic, highly intelligent man. Lyrically he really was in a league of his own. RIP sir, thank you for the music

Realt Dearg Sec

Chelsea Yellow Upstairs wrote: »

Got the chance to see him lives in Dublin a few years back, so glad I got to do that- would have been delighted to be there even if he just phoned it in but it was one of the best gigs of my life. I know he had a good innings and all but this is still such a loss, he was crushing it right up to the last album. True musical legend and such a charismatic, highly intelligent man. Lyrically he really was in a league of his own. RIP sir, thank you for the music

Was at that gig as well (in the Point?) twas fantastic, just so heartfelt and so well performed, no mean feat for such an established artist who really could have gotten the numbers in the door regardless of how much effort he put in. It was a moving experience. His voice got deeper and more subtle as he got older too, and he maintained his commitment to his art right to the end. His early songs meant a great deal to me as a teenager, they were brittle, carefully made things. He was also one of the few artists that I could go and see live with my mother and both of us would genuinely enjoy ourselves. He could put literally years of work into a single song, and the sense of some of those songs as near-perfect sculptures carved out of the stone of his life was unbelievable. He was an authentic voice, and he could see the vulnerability and pain of ordinary lives. I know he was a good age, but he was the real deal.

Riddle101

For some reason this scene in The Young Ones popped into my head when I heard about Leonard Cohen. RIP to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeItR8NTks

Realt Dearg Sec

Riddle101 wrote: »

For some reason this scene in The Young Ones popped into my head when I heard about Leonard Cohen. RIP to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeItR8NTks

I thought of this...

TresGats

Thank you for the music. Rest in Peace.

The flying mouse

Rip

wil

Ah no. Only released latest brilliant album 3 weeks ago. "You want it darker.."
Travel light. RIP

Stigura

Damn. And I really enjoyed reading this ~ 'Last' ~ interview with him, only recently

Click.

He seemed contented and ready.

MadYaker

Jaaaaasus. 2016 has to be the worst year since the fuppin holocaust or something. First Trump and now this.

Recognition Scene

I'm not one to get caught up at all in grieving famous deaths, but this hits home very hard. Been a huge fan since my late teens, was lucky enough to see him a couple of times in Dublin and was actually supposed to see him a 3rd time in Austin in 2012/2013 but had to work late. His music and lyrics especially were an empathetic friend through seriously dark times. R.I.P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntot9LAY08

K.Flyer

What incredibly sad news.
When I listened to his last album I could hear in his voice what I heard in Johnny Cash's voice on his last album, that time was nearly up.
Farewell, rest well and safe travels Mr.Cohen.

"I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time, 
Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme,
You know my love goes with you as your love stays with me, 
It's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea, 
But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, 
Your eyes are soft with sorrow, 
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."

Arghus

RIP. May you live forever in our minds.

jobeenfitz

''Tis sad. Great singer songwriter. Not shocked, it's a journey we all will make. At his age it's normal and natural.

Ficheall

Ah no. Gutted

Saw him a few years ago. He said

"The last time I played here was fifteen years ago -
I was sixty-one years old, just a kid with a crazy dream..."

UsedToWait

Ah you hate to see another tired man
lay down his hand
like he was giving up the holy game of poker
And while he talks his dreams to sleep
you notice there's a highway
that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder.
It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder..

RIP. A true poet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J3HTvlDFbm4

UsedToWait

I always loved this, from one of his books of poems..



I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.

If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.

Edups

Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord


Incredibly eerie.

Another great storyteller gone, one of the greatest. R.I.P.

Jeff Buckley did arguably the greatest cover of all time with his own version of 'Hallelujah', but this is my favourite...

Masala

RIP to a true legend... He has left us with a world of words and song.

Would expect that he would be up for that Nobel Prize that Dylan got this year if he lived til next year....

So Long Leonard

RobbingBandit

Sad start to wake up to this morning. RIP

D0NNELLY

One of the best gigs i was at was him above in Sligo few years ago.. always thought I'd see him again.. hopefully now not for a while yet

Joe_ Public

He was born with the gift of a golden voice.

Gonna miss him terribly. No disrespect to Dylan, but they should have given the nobel prize to Lenny, a poet as much as singer and one of the funniest too. He may be gone but rest assured he'll still be speaking to us sweetly from his window in that Tower of Song.

whoopsadoodles

2016 can go fcuk itself.

Gael23

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

2016 can go fcuk itself.

Only 7 weeks left and it's gone forever

Advbrd

Gutted but not unexpected.
Freakily, I was listening to him most of yesterday.
The day before Bowie died, I was listening to him most of the day.
That's too much of a coincidence.
It was going to be a Jeff Lynne day today but I think I might download a load of Nathan Carter instead and see how that works out.

Advbrd

Double post.

UsedToWait

If it be your will
That I speak no more
And my voice be still
As it was before
I will speak no more
I shall abide until
I am spoken for
If it be your will

s4uv3

"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"

What a voice.
I know what I'll be mostly listening to this weekend..

Allinall

sugarman wrote: »

He was 82, is it really that much of a shock?

A grand aul age.

In the immortal words of Del Boy-

"It wasn't for him. He died"

RIP to a legend.

Dr Crayfish

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Dr Crayfish

Quite sad but he seemed ready to go, as ready as one can be, in recent interviews. I really love this song, an amazing lyricist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLq7Aqd_H7g

Elmer Blooker

Deleted User wrote: »

Very sad news but not overly surprising. Going by the lyrics from his recent album, he knew it was coming soon.

"I'm ready, my Lord"

No, not surprising.
"I'm leaving the table, I'm out of the game"

I saw him outside the Gresham a few years ago and approached him, not only was he very friendly but he seemed almost meek. Got his autograph which I will find and have a look at later.

Manach

May he RIP, one of the true greats.

seenitall

I agree, a true poet, with a big big heart to his lyrics.

As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will