Died Leonard Cohen Died the great poet, singer and writer Leonard Cohen – Газета.Ru

perhaps in the future, for this year will come up with a separate name is in honor of the number of shocks in General and in particular the deaths of those whose care is certainly nobody expected: David Bowie, Pierre Boulez, Prince, and now Leonard Cohen. He has just released the brilliant album “You Want It Darker” and forced again to talk about himself almost more than a Nobel prize winner (and good friend Leonard) Bob Dylan.

the album’s Producer, the son of Adam singer, said in a recent interview that the greatness of the father in the complete absence of nostalgia.

And indeed, these songs could give the Patriarch the love of millions, even if they were his debut. However, in the case with his biography there’s no shame in nostalgia.

the Son of immigrants from Poland and Lithuania, the grandson of the Rabbi of Kovno, he laughed that in his childhood he was trained to the plight of the Saint — his family led their origin from old Testament high priest Aaron. Born in the mid-1930s, Leonard was, of course, somewhat different interests. Already while studying at University, he published his first collection of poems, which was the result of fascination with Yeats, and Henry Miller. In those same years, he first tried his hand in music, collecting student folk group, but did not get on. Cohen devoted himself to literature and, quite in the fashion of that time, has gone walkabout.

Fate brought him to the island of Hydra in Greece, where he met Maryann Ilion — my first real Muse, which was dedicated the first song from the debut album “Songs Of Leonard Cohen”, released in 1967.

the Record named by his own name, Cohen is already quite could afford: by the end of the 1960s he published several collections of poems (including the famous “Flowers for Hitler”) and two novels — “the Favorite game” and “Beautiful losers”, which brought the young author in a number of cult writers of the era of banicescu. In fact, music, which was devoted to the rest of a long life of Leonard, he at some point with a signature smile, explained the financial benefits.

In these notes in the margins, a little exaggeratedly solemn tone, the kind deceit, it seems, contains not less information to ponder than the actual songs or stories about the struggle with love and life in a Buddhist monastery. At the intersection of the incongruous, in General, rests a little, weary peace, to give of his best songs. And in this sense it does not matter — from the first acoustic (and it seems like a more noble) period or those that were created since the late 1980s, when Cohen suddenly became a hit maker, and the sound became something like “live music” in the Russian eatery.

Talking about the sound, in the end, a matter of taste, and the songs remain. “First We Take Manhattan”, “Suzanne”, “Dance Me To The End of Love”, “Bird on a Wire”, “Future” and of course “Hallelujah”, the gold Foundation, which will explore the music and poetry of the twentieth century. There is still one remark: a few years ago, Cohen admitted that kind of game “Hallelujah” is probably no longer worth it — the song to that moment became the most perepevom in the world.

In the next few months we probably will have a few inevitable versions. But it seems that Cohen had used his will, of course, would not prohibit anyone anything.

in Recent years, the singer’s life — it’s all amazing story. In the late 90s, a devout Jew, Cohen retired to a Zen Buddhist monastery near Los Angeles, which took the name of Jikhan — “silence”. In the mid-noughties — were robbed by his former Manager Kelly Lynch and actually had to go into a protracted world tour, during which he acted in the State Kremlin Palace. The concerts of this tour was described by witnesses only excellent epithets, and indeed this was the essence of the creative method, the combination of an intimate thrill of the first album and almost tavern availability later. It is no coincidence that the tour added to the discography of the singer on two positions. On the other hand, Cohen has gone through another creative upswing, releasing three albums in six years — and then we return to “You Want It Darker”.

Honestly, when this album was released, talking about the creative will of the Patriarch sounded so monotonous that believe in them not that I don’t want to, but simply could not.

it does not happen, death is impossible to negotiate, God’s Providence are inscrutable.

But Cohen, apparently, not in vain devoted to the Lord so many poems. In a recent interview, which became part of a larger text in the New Yorker, really sick, Cohen says among other things that is not afraid of death. It became known that shortly before his death, Maryann Ilion (the one with the island of Hydra) she and Leonard exchanged letters in which Cohen has promised a good friend soon. In October it heard, as he sings “I’m Ready, My Lord”. In November he was gone. After the fate of the set point, it’s hard to escape some Mnogomernye conclusions and generalizations, but they should hold. A Jew? Buddhist? A great poet? Musician? Writer? The Great Leonard Cohen.