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23.giugno.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: No One Knows Candles Like Leonard Cohen

A Leonard Cohen Minute: No One Knows Candles Like Leonard Cohen

Asked to tell a New York anecdote, Cohen shared this one about the Chelsea Hotel, where he stayed in the ’60s and 70′s and composed the famous “Chelsea Hotel N°2″ (1974), an homage to Janis Joplin. Cohen’s room was near Andy Wahrol’s muse, Edie Sedwick’s. “She was extremely beautiful, all the…
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22.giugno.2012

leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen performing “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong” in San Sebastian in 1988. Video uploaded by messalina79. Check out her many rare Leonard Cohen videos and her Adam Cohen videos on her Channel. Other performances of “One of Us ...

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Leonard Cohen performing “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong” in San Sebastian in 1988. Video uploaded by messalina79. Check out her many rare Leonard Cohen videos and her Adam Cohen videos on her Channel.

Other performances of “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong” can be found on the Speaking Cohen Channel.
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22.giugno.2012

Alone the master and the slave embrace.
I will not tell the banker or the doctor.
See, they watch the sun descend
behind the unowned mountain.
They know nothing of covenant or phoenix.

– From “Alone the Master and the Slave Embrace” from The Spice-Box of Earth by Leonard Cohen. (via leonardcohenminute)
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