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1. December 9th 2008 @ 03:08. Chris Champion Says:

Stop it; you're giving me goosebumps.

I saw him perform in Canberra in oh-you-know-a-long-long-time ago. The concert was in a hotel ballroom, which means all the chairs were on the same level. Cohen, arriving on the low stage, immediately queried if everyone could see. "No," yelled a majority. And so, with Leonard Cohen waving his arms and controlling the crowd, we all stood, stacked our chairs against the walls, and then came and sat on the floor around the stage. He hadn't sung a note yet and we all loved him.

He went away and I moved on and I lost contact with his music for oh-you-know-a-long-long-time.

I fell in love with him all over again a few years ago after I heard kd laing sing Hallelujah. In a sad fact which proves I am not worthy of calling myself a Cohen fan, I didn't know that he wrote it. I thought she had, and I thought no-one on Earth could sing it as movingly as she does.

Well, I was wrong on two counts. Through the miracle of YouTube I finally watched Leonard Cohen sing the song he wrote. I had remembered him as a great song writer but with a voice that came filtered through gravel. I should never trust my judgment on anything. He's a fabulous singer too and I loved his version. Now there are two versions which can turn me inside out. If I drink red wine before listening to either of them, it can take me a week to recover emotional equanimity.

Remember when I moved in you? The holy dark was moving too, And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Goosebumps again. He was a one-off, our Leonard. Thanks, Joanne, for sweet memories.

2. December 9th 2008 @ 05:07. Joanne Fedler Says:

It feels good to be moved together with someone who sways just the way I do. Thanks Chris. Leonard's poetry opens my heart, and I just tumble in.
I love your Leonard stories.
Jo

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3. December 9th 2008 @ 21:12. Dianna G Says:

Now I have Hallelujah stuck in my head...

I love the stories. I don't think I've ever considered Leonard humorous-there's just an intense beauty to everything he writes. It doesn't make me laugh but it doesn't make me cry; makes me wish I could meet him, actually.

Anyway. Off to youtube...

~Dianna

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