Leonard Cohen

Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album of Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. It foreshadowed the future path of his career, with less success in the United States and far better in Europe, reaching #83 on the Billboard chart but achieving gold status only in 1989, while it reached #13 in UK and spent nearly a year and a half in the UK album charts.

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Welcome to Wildlife. My sporadic little space of the interweb dedicated to observations and investigations into the behaviours, diets and habitats of musicians. Expect comment on new breeds, intelligence, mating calls and rituals along with the odd warning of extinction all written by me, Susie Wild. I know, it is brilliant, what I’ve done there, isn’t it? First up:  Move over...
So, I was watching the news a few nights ago and this year it seems the Canadian news has bothered to report on the UK Christmas number one. Apparently, it’s newsworthy this time because three versions of Hallelujah are competing for the top spot: the original by Leonard Cohen, the cover by Jeff Buckley and the cover by Alexandra Burke, some woman from X-Factor. The saddest part of...
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Michael Zapruder defies pigeon-holing. This San Francisco singer-songwriter can emulate Nick Drake in his Bryter Layter phase in Ads for Feelings, do a convincing Thom Yorke whine and channel the lyricism of Leonard Cohen (White Raven Sails). Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope is a folk record when you strip away all the other layers - Zapruder does it him self on >Harbor Saints. All his songs...
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The Veils – Sun Gangs 7/10 The press release projects that this is the first proper offering from The Veils, that their first two forays, Runaway Found and Nux Vomica, didn’t quite showcase their talent enough. Nux Vomica was a widely celebrated and mature achievement, but Sun Gangs sees the band swiftly assert their talent even further. The glossy lushness of Bernard Butler...
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