Obits

[MarkWoody]

Cheerio then, laughing Len. I found you funny, rather than depressing.

RIP Leonard Cohen.

[SteveTheShadow]

Sad indeed.
I think his final album, released last month, is stunningly good; one of his best in years and doubly poignant now.

[MarkWoody]

'Democracy is Coming to the USA'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR- ... -0lV5qs1Qw

"It's coming through a hole in the air
From those nights in Tiananmen Square
It's coming from the feel
That this ain't exactly real
Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there
From the wars against disorder
From the sirens night and day
From the fires of the homeless
From the ashes of the gay
Democracy is coming to the USA
It's coming through a crack in the wall
On a visionary flood of alcohol
From the staggering account
Of the Sermon on the Mount
Which I don't pretend to understand at all
It's coming from the silence
On the dock of the bay,
From the brave, the bold, the battered
Heart of Chevrolet
Democracy is coming to the USA"

[MarkWoody]

This was in the Guardian this morning;

Marianne Ihlen, Cohen’s most famous muse, died in July this year.

Jan Christian Mollestad, a documentary maker and friend of Ihlen, shared a letter Cohen had written to her shortly before she died:

'Well Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon.

Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.

And you know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that.

But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.'

Two days after the letters was read to her, Ihlen, immortalised by Cohen in So Long, Marianne and Bird on a Wire, died. She was 81.


In a recent interview in the New Yorker he said "I am ready to die. I hope it's not too uncomfortable. That's about it for me".

[slinger]

In city and in forest, they smiled like me and you
But now it's come to distances and both of us must try
Your eyes are soft with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye

Today I shall mostly be playing Leonard Cohen - Live in London

[Daniel Quinn]

Graig Gill drummer with the Inspiral Carpets as died age 44. He was from and lived in Chadderton Oldham as did I .

[jammy395]

Who - ?

R.I.P. anyway GG.

[slinger]

Nov 14^th Leon Russell

Nov 16^th Mose Allison

Nov 20^th Sharon jones

R.I.P. one and all.

[jammy395]

Never fukin heard of em...RIP though.

I hope someone famous dies soon.....This thread needs it.

[jammy395]

GOOD.....Fidel Castro's popped his clogs - he was quite well known.
Had a good innings though....90.

Rip.