【】in 1963, and the award-winning
我要评论LOS ANGELES -- Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter who profoundly influenced multiple generations with his cerebral and darkly meditative songs, has died, his record label confirmed on his Facebook page Thursday night. He was 82. 。
"It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away," reads the post. "We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries. A memorial will take place in Los Angeles at a later date. The family requests privacy during their time of grief." 。
Cohen belongs in the same breath as Bob Dylan, fellow Canadians Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell -- and all of the luminous troubadours of the late 1960s folk movement -- though he was perhaps the darkest, the moodiest, the most contemplative among them. 。
His mournful bass vocal and spectral nylon-stringed guitar lines would remain his signature sound throughout his career, which never vaulted him to great commercial celebrity, but also never failed him, as he wrote, toured and recorded into his eighties.。
In fact, Cohen released two records in the past three years, Popular Problems 。In fact, Cohen released two records in the past three years, Popular Problems 。in 2014 and。 You Want it Darker 。in October, and both were well-received. Cohen also wrote poems and published two novels, The Favorite Game。in 1963, and the award-winning 。
By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 。
By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
。Thanks for signing up! 。 Nearly everything Cohen wrote was unabashedly intimate, personal and often political, and though social commentary was in his DNA, snarling protest songs were not his calling card; instead, he dove deep on matters of the heart and spirit, a vein that would define his artistic voice -- and way of living -- across six decades. 。Leonard Cohen in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1976.Credit: Istvan Bajzat/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images。 Leonard Cohen in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1976.Credit: Istvan Bajzat/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images 。His early records included his 1967 debut album 。 Songs of Leonard Cohen。and the follow-up,
Songs From a Room。
. It wasn't until 1984's 。
Various Positions。
that he would first release "Hallelujah," only a modest success until it was covered by Jeff Buckley in the 1990s. That dazzling version -- often used in film and TV soundtracks -- launched dozens of other versions in several languages, with an estimated 5 million copies sold worldwide. 。
相关文章
This 'sh*tpost' bot makes terrible memes so you don't have to
The internet is awash in trashy memes just waiting for your late-night retweet spree. Why waste prec2025-01-30
'Lone wolf' casually pranked a major city's air traffic control room
April Fool's came very early for one air traffic control centre, after a "lone-wolf" played a prank2025-01-30
Apple hikes MacBook prices in India
There is no escape for Indians who are looking to purchase a new (or relatively new) MacBook from Ap2025-01-30
Taj Mahal disappears in a blanket of deadly smog
If you are coming to India to visit the Taj Mahal, you might want to change your plans. SEE ALSO:NAS2025-01-30Is Samsung's Galaxy Note7 really the best phone?
On this week's 。 MashTalk 。, Lance, Pete and I talk about the new hot smartphone in town: Samsung's Ga2025-01-30
America, we need to fix those voting machines ASAP
As expected, episodes of faulty voting machines have been reported across several U.S. states on Ele2025-01-30
最新评论