January 22, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Performs “The Stranger Song” In First Musical TV Appearance – May 23, 1966
January 22, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Je Ne Regrette Rien” By Edith Piaf Is On Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox
January 21, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “A lot of musicians deal with politics, but Leonard Cohen dealt with politics of the heart – something very different & moving that touched you as a individual” Rob Hallett
January 21, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Video: Sharon Robinson’s Gripping Performance Of Boogie Street – 2010 Leonard Cohen Gent Show
January 21, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Leonard Cohen On The Virtues & Sins Of Organised Religion
January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.” H.L. Mencken
January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “It was a time of great chaos and distress. Had I been in better shape myself I probably could have navigated the session a little better. Although Phil [Spector’s] an expert in karate, I might have taken him” Leonard Cohen
January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Q: What was Spector shooting at? Leonard Cohen: “Me! He was threatening me and the musicians” But Leonard Also Taunts Phil’s Bodyguard “You’re a motherfucking pussycat. You don’t even know how to use that [gun]”
January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “Death of a Ladies’ Man remains one of the most audacious attempts to look at that sobering mixture of longing and regret that makes up so much of life, not bitterly…or nostalgically…but candidly and, sometimes, humorously.” Liel Leibovitz On The Leonard Cohen-Phil Spector Collaboration