Leonard Cohen’s acceptance speech for the 2011 Prince Asturias Award for literature. The subtitles were made from the transcript … here with English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnx20BZquAo&t=191s
Leonard Cohen’s acceptance speech for the 2011 Prince Asturias Award for literature. The subtitles were made from the transcript … here with English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnx20BZquAo&t=191s
taken from: Toronto Exhibition and the book : The Flame
Harry Belafonte – Suzanne (live on US tv, 1972) With Sivuca (Severino Dias de Oliveira) on guitar.
„Harry Belafonte’s wife, who had been very suspicious about my presence because I had suggested that Harry Belafonte change his show and stop singing calypso and start singing about himself… He’s a very great singer. We were drinking late into the night at the Four Seasons Hotel and I got out this poem [Slowly I Married Her] and I thought he could set it to music. And I don’t know whether it was the vodka or not, but she wept a few tears that sealed the night very nicely.“ (LEONARD COHEN)
Extensive interview by Patrick Watson, broadcast on CBC february 8th 1980 in the show ‚Authors‘. With poem readings of Death of a Lady’s Man. Leonard talking about drugs, writing, marriage and many other things.
posted on www.leonardcohen.de in 1998
Lou Reed ist eine musikalische Legende, eine wahre Ikone des Rock ’n‘ Roll. Weniger bekannt ist, dass Reed neben der Musik noch eine zweite große Leidenschaft hatte: über 30 Jahre praktizierte er Tai Chi. Dieser Kampfsport war eine treibende Kraft in seinem Leben, gerne teilte er seine Erfahrungen mit Fans und Freunden. Tai Chi hat sein Leben verändert – und vermutlich gerettet. In diesem Buch, herausgegeben von seiner Ehefrau Laurie Anderson, selbst stilbildende Musikerin und Künstlerin, finden sich Originaltexte von Lou Reed sowie Stimmen seiner Freunde und Weggefährten, darunter Iggy Pop, Julian Schnabel, Tony Visconti, Black-Swan-Regisseur Darren Aronofsky, A.M. Homes, und Tai-Chi-Meister Ren Guangyi sowie bisher unveröffentlichtes Bildmaterial.