Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows - Couverture rigide

Kubernik, Harvey

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9781785580178: Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1785580175 ISBN 13 : 9781785580178

Editeur : Omnibus Press, 2015

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Leonard Cohen's songs and poetry are defined by their emotional and intellectual intelligence. Lyrically potent, his records are full of romance, innuendo and humour, and in performance his smoke-black vocal cords navigate the most sophisticated and arresting of melodies. He has captivated generations of listeners and audiences around the world and his work has inspired many other performers from Johnny Cash to Nick Cave, Judy Collins to Adele. There have been over three hundred cover versions of the sublime 'Hallelujah', which took Cohen ten years to perfect.

Leonard Cohen arrived fashionably late in Greenwich Village as the sixties' folk-music party was in full swing. He was persuaded by Judy Collins to perform his own songs and released his debut album - Songs of Leonard Cohen - in 1967. At thirty-three years of age, he was the adult in the room, a room brimming, then as now, with literary pretension and artistic self-importance.

But Cohen, already established as a respected poet and novelist, was the real deal. In the decades since, he's battled with drugs, love, and bankruptcy; become a Buddhist monk while simultaneously reaffirming his Jewish faith; and recorded eleven more albums of unfailingly affecting beauty.

This revised edition of the critically-acclaimed Everybody Knows is a fitting tribute to Leonard Cohen's genius, illustrated with many rare photographs and items of memorabilia and integrated with the recollections and comments of those who have worked with and are close to him. With insider's knowledge Harvey Kubernik reviews this unique achievement, beginning with the young poet and author starting out in his home city of Montreal, through to his latest album, Old Ideas, and his acclaimed worldwide concert tours.

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Harvey Kubernik is a writer, editor and journalist whose work has appeared in, Melody Maker, Crawdaddy!, Musician, Goldmine, MIX, the Los Angeles Times and MOJO. The author of several books, hislatest, Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon was described by one reviewer as 'one of the best books on rock ever written'. A former A&R man for MCA records, in the past 40 years he has appeared in and produced countless music documentaries, written extensively on Leonard Cohen, and interviewed him several times.

Revue de presse :

A gourmet smorgasbord for Lenny Heads: oral biography, photo scrapbook and coffee table centrepiece.' --Mojo

The perfect tribute to his enduring talent. With an insider's knowledge, author Harvey Kubernik analyses Cohen's achievements as a musician, songwriter, novelist and poet in this unique coffee-table book." --Unshredded

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