Re: NBC: is any one here a fan of Leonard Cohen?


"Rick Rubenstein" <poundpod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Susan" <frogandtoad61@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> ruth wrote:
>>> Suzanne was my favorite song when I was 16. I still get all weepy when
>>> I hear it. I knew this amazing girl who sang it beautifully - she was
>>> our town's first hippie and I longed to be her. Judy Collins "In My
>>> Life" album had a couple of Cohen songs on it . What a fabulous album
>>> that was ...introduced me to Cohen, Randy Newman and Jacques Brel. Dasm.
>>
>> I have a Best Of Lp by Judy Collins called Colors of the Day (from
>> 1972) which was my introduction to Cohen, I'm sure. It has Suzanne on
>> it. I recently found a cover by Peter Gabriel of Suzanne that is
>> beautiful-been listening to it most mornings lately. But that Judy
>> Collins album is wonderful-her covers of Someday Soon, Who Knows Where
>> the Time Goes, In My LIfe and Amazing Grace are incredible.
>>
>> Something I've always wondered about Cohen-is he/was he a Christian?
>> Or is he just enamored with Christian imagery, much like Bruce?
>> thanks, if anyone knows.
>>
>> susan
>>
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> Leonard Cohen was born to Jewish parents, and practices a form of
> Buddhism.
> However, his influences were many, apparently. . .both sacred and profane,
> from what I can make of it.
>
Further checking provides that while Cohen, who was raised in a religious,
Jewish family in Montreal, was briefly
a Buddhist Monk in the 70's (hell, it was fashionable, I suppose) he
commented that he still practiced Judaism, and was
quite happy with his "old" religion, meaning Judaism.

He's an interesting man. He's been in some very dark places in his life. On
the other hand, he lived with Rebecca De Mornay for a while---as did
Harry Dean Stanton. This is a woman with an ability to see past the exterior
of a man that I can really admire.


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