Leonard Cohen Is Just a Man
La inceputul anilor ‘90, intr-un bar din Timisoara, l-am descoperit pe Leonard Cohen. M-am indragostit de el la prima auditie, am facut imediat rost de cateva albume de-ale lui si l-am ascultat de multe multe ori, dar de fiecare data cu aceeasi proaspata placere. Pasiunea mea pentru muzica lui a durat vreun an, dar pe urma, nu stiu de ce, a inceput sa se stinga. Stefan inca il iubeste si in rarele ocazii in care e liniste in casa si avem timp si chef de muzica, se nimereste sa fie si Cohen unul dintre alesi. Ne place tuturor, mie pentru ca e o aducere aminte a vremurilor cand puteam pierde o noapte intr-un bar, si copiilor pentru ca adora Hallelujah, piesa pe care ei o cunosc din Shrek I, cred.
In 7 martie, cu cateva zile inaintea primirii lui Leonard Cohen in Rock&Roll Hall of Fame, The Gazette a publicat acest articol din care am sa copiez inceputul. Decideti voi daca vreti sa cititi intreg articolul, aici.
He’s our man
Juan Rodriguez, Special to the Gazette
Published: Friday, March 07
“Show me slowly what I only know the limits of / Dance me to the end of love.”
- Leonard Cohen, 1984
“They’re not gonna get us! They’re not gonna get us!” growled Cohen when I bumped into him on his beloved St. Laurent Blvd., arm in arm with his musical muse and mate Anjani Thomas, two years ago.
His smile was as charmingly crooked as ever, but there was a wildness in his eyes I hadn’t previously recognized. The source of his urgent tone was money: His manager in L.A. had ripped him off to the tune of $5 million, largely while he was holed up in a Zen retreat in Mount Baldy, California, leaving him with $150,000. He had returned to Montreal, if not to renew what early in his career he called “neurotic affiliations,” at least to regroup and start all over again. “What can I do? I had to go to work,” Cohen told Maclean’s in August 2005. “I have no money left. I’m not saying it’s bad; I have enough of an understanding of the way the world works to understand that these things happen.”
