{"id":24396,"date":"2022-06-26T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=24396"},"modified":"2022-06-26T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:29:41","slug":"kw-25-2022-summer-of-rock-2022-works-glastonbury-2022-why-leonard-cohens-2008-glastonbury-festival-was-never-filmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=24396","title":{"rendered":"KW-25-2022: Remembering to Leonard Cohen`s Glastonbury-Gig in 2008 &#8230;&#8230;.. &#8222;It&#8217;s a great honor to play for these angels born of the mud,&#8220; Leonard Cohen reverently said to his disciples before he once again climbs up into his &#8222;Tower Of Song&#8220;. Behind me, a young blond girl asks: Is It God, who speaks now?\u201d \u2013 I didn&#8217;t know the blond Englishwoman, but I think I nodded knowingly and smiling. &#8230;&#8230;. and why Leonard Cohen`s 2008 Glastonbury-Festival was not broadcasted on BBC but filmed by some mobiles with low quality in those days &#8230; &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>,,It`s a great honour to play for these angels born of the mud\u201c, spricht er ehrfurchtsvoll zu seinen J\u00fcngern, bevor er er wieder einmal in seinen Turm des Liedes (,,Tower Of Song\u201c) aufsteigt. Hinter mir fragt ein junges blondes M\u00e4dchen: &#8222;Is It God, who speaks now?\u201c \u2013 Ich kannte die blonde Engl\u00e4nderin nicht, aber ich glaube, wissend und l\u00e4chelnd genickt zu haben.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8222;It&#8217;s a great honor to play for these angels born of the mud,&#8220; Leonard Cohen reverently said to his disciples before he once again climbs up into his &#8222;Tower Of Song&#8220;. Behind me, a young blond girl asks: Is It God, who speaks now?\u201d \u2013 I didn&#8217;t know the blond Englishwoman, but I think I nodded knowingly and smiling.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph wrote: &#8222;The gravel-voiced 73-year-old songsmith&#8217;s greatest hits set, performed with wonderful graciousness under a balmy Sunday evening sun \u2013 and including &#8218;Hallelujah&#8216; with crowd-sung choruses \u2013 was sheer, unadulterated bliss.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The performance was never professionally captured on camera, after Cohen refused to allow it to be filmed by the BBC, for reasons unknown. Some mobiles captured some moements \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leonard Cohen @ Glasto 2008. &quot;Dance me to the end of love&quot;\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XyLr6X5tkN8?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leonard Cohen - Suzanne - Glastonbury 2008\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmq3--KKfXU?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>,,It`s a great honour to play for these angels born of the mud\u201c, spricht er ehrfurchtsvoll zu seinen J\u00fcngern, bevor er er wieder einmal in seinen Turm des Liedes (,,Tower Of Song\u201c) aufsteigt. Hinter mir fragt ein junges blondes M\u00e4dchen: &#8222;Is It God, who speaks now?\u201c \u2013 Ich kannte die blonde Engl\u00e4nderin nicht, aber ich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396","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=24396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24402,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions\/24402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}