{"id":19768,"date":"2021-05-24T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=19768"},"modified":"2021-05-28T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:58:08","slug":"kw-21-2021-critics-says-i-cant-sing-why-dont-they-say-those-things-about-leonard-cohen-eight-comments-from-dylan-cohen-on-dylan-cohen-part-2-bob-dylan-leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=19768","title":{"rendered":"KW-21-2021: Dylan &#038; Cohen on Dylan &#038; Cohen &#8211; Part 2 : &#8222;Critics says I can&#8217;t sing.\u201d \u2026 \u201cWhy don&#8217;t they say those things about Leonard Cohen? Eight comments from Dylan &#038; Cohen on Dylan &#038; Cohen &#8211; Part 2: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Mount Everest &#8211; On Mount Everest there would be space for two signs: \u201cHighest mountain in the world\u201d. Thoughts &#038; comments on never-ending approaches to the two greatest rock poets of our time &#8211; Bob Dylan turns 80 &#8211; articles &#038; essays by christof graf written and published in the years 1990 \u2013 2021 \/ Part 2: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen und der Mount Everest \u2013 Auf dem Mount Everest w\u00e4re Platz f\u00fcr zwei Schilder: \u201eH\u00f6chster Berg der Welt\u201c. Gedanken &#038; Anmerkungen zu nie enden wollenden Ann\u00e4herungen an die zwei gr\u00f6\u00dften Rockpoeten unserer Zeit \u2013 Part II  \u2013 Bob Dylan wird 80 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan is a Billy Lee Riley fan\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YIUBhge-CkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Critics says I can&#8217;t sing.\u201d \u2026 \u201cWhy don&#8217;t they say those things about Leonard Cohen? Why do I get special treatment?&#8220; Bob Dylan spoke in a 40-minute speech accepting the MusiCares Person of the Year 2015 award at the pre-Grammy ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan: 2015 MusiCares Person Of The Year | GRAMMYs\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/scjD7h6v2Zc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, yeah. Critics have been giving me a hard time since Day One. Critics say I can\u2019t sing. I croak. Sound like a frog. Why don\u2019t critics say that same thing about Tom Waits? Critics say my voice is shot. That I have no voice. What don\u2019t they say those things about Leonard Cohen? Why do I get special treatment? Critics say I can\u2019t carry a tune and I talk my way through a song. Really? I\u2019ve never heard that said about Lou Reed. Why does he get to go scot-free?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan is a Billy Lee Riley fan\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YIUBhge-CkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Critics says I can&#8217;t sing.\u201d \u2026 \u201cWhy don&#8217;t they say those things about Leonard Cohen? Why do I get special treatment?&#8220; Bob Dylan spoke in a 40-minute speech accepting the MusiCares Person of the Year 2015 award at the pre-Grammy ceremony. \u201cOh, yeah. Critics have been giving me a hard time since Day One. Critics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19886,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions\/19886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}