I just read on my blogging friend Robin's Instagram that Leonard Cohen has died. I feel so very sad about this. He has been a musical fixture in my life for nearly fifty years. I can't believe he is gone.
Last month I posted a photo of Hazel Nina and I walking and I quoted a line from Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye. I planned to put up a video of he and Judy Collins singing it. This was a meaningful song to Tom and I when we were kids because we were always being separated by school schedules and family responsibilities.
So now I shall post it in memory of, and in honor of, the wonderful Leonard Cohen.
You may read a very recent article in The New Yorker here.
I was so sad to hear about Leonard Cohen's death. A friend and I were just talking about him the other day, and, like you, he has been a musical fixture in my life also. I remember introducing my Kiddo to him and it was instant love, but how could it not be.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it was the same day we were talking about him. There was a recent New Yorker article on him. I think poor Jeff Buckley brought him popular fame. I love how priests have started singing Hallelujah at weddings, personalizing the words to the couple.
DeleteLove Leonard Cohen so much - a master of words and emotions. That song has a lot of meaning for me too, but in a very sad way. Glad you and your Tom's is happier.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the video.
Mary
It wasn't happier then. We had constant partings for two years when we were young. I'm sorry about your memory.
DeleteTwo family favorites.
ReplyDeleteI just love their voices together.
DeleteI am embarrassed to say that I do not know Leonard Cohen's songs (except that I might have heard one or two over the years and not known they were Leonard Cohen songs). I can't explain why I am not familiar with the music of the last few decades. My only excuse is that I must have been dwelling in an alternate universe. I know NOTHING about contemporary (and by that I mean the last few decades) music. It's possible that I just stopped listening years ago and never noticed because I just didn't miss it. Things happen in life, you turn aside and begin looking for something else. Not saying I don't love music still, but I just never caught up with my contemporaries. Took another route.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to feel embarrassed. It wasn't a priority in your life for a while. But, you know what, it is always there waiting, Just like a book on a shelf.
DeleteI don't know Leonard Cohen well, but I understand the deep sadness you feel about someone so important to your development no longer being around. That's how I felt when Terry Pratchett passed away. Almost bereft, really.
ReplyDeleteIt is so interesting, isn't it. How people we don't know in real life are so important to us. Many of my 'tributes' have been to such people.
DeleteI agree Nan, so sad, but what a wonderful legacy he left behind for us all to enjoy. I did like knowing he was in the world though and will miss that. I have been playing his 'Anthem' today. xx
ReplyDeleteYou might like the New Yorker article, Carole.
DeleteI thought of you when I first read about his passing, Nan. It is such a sad, sad parting but a rich legacy of words.
ReplyDeleteI so like your words, Penny -"a rich legacy of words." That is very true.
DeleteYes he wrote some great lyrics and had his own way of singing them.
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