{"id":5530,"date":"2017-03-19T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T09:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2017-03-21T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:52:01","slug":"kw-11-2007-chuck-berry-ist-gestorben-auf-seiner-chuckberry-com-website-wurde-dies-heute-verkuendet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=5530","title":{"rendered":"KW-12-2017: Chuck Berry und … Leonard Cohen. 2012 erhielten Sie den PEN AWARD."},"content":{"rendered":"

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–> Berry, Chuck<\/strong>\u00e0 Charles Edward Anderson \u201eChuck\u201c Berry, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri geboren, US-amerikanischer S\u00e4nger, Gitarrist, Komponist, gilt als ein Pionier des Rock \u02bcn\u02bc Roll. 2012 erhielt er zusammen mit Leonard Cohen den \u00e0 PEN Award. \u00dcberraschungsgast war \u00e0 Keith Richards<\/p>\n

–> PEN AWARD. <\/strong>2012 erhielt Cohen den PEN AWARD. Bono, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Bill Flanagan, Paul Muldoon, Smokey Robinson, Salman Rushdie und Paul Simon waren zugegen, als Leonard Cohen zusammen mit Chuck Berry geehrt wurde. Salman Rushdie hielt die Laudatio auf Cohen, und \u00dcberraschungsgast und Mitbegr\u00fcnder der Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, sprach \u00fcber Chuck Berry. Aber auch Bob Dylan meldete sich trotz Abwesenheit zu Wort. In einer E-Mail, die von Bill Flanagan verlesen wurde, nannte Bob Dylan Berry \u201ethe Shakespeare of rock & roll\u201c und Cohen \u201ethe Kafka of the blues\u201c. Cohen konterte bei seiner Acceptance Speech sp\u00e4ter dass er im Vergleich zu Berrys \u201eRoll Over Beethoven\u201c nur im Sinne von Walt Whitmans joyful noise<\/em> ein bisschen \u201ebarbaric yawp\u201c fabriziere. \u201eIf Beethoven hadn\u02bct rolled over\u201c, he said, \u201ethere\u02bcd be no room for any of us.\u201c<\/p>\n

Salman Rushdie zitierte vor seiner Laudatio einige Zeilen von \u201eBird On A Wire\u201c und meinte nur: \u201ePut simply, if I could write like that, I would.\u201c Dann folgte die eigentliche Laudatio von Salman Rushdie:<\/p>\n

\u201eWell this is a gig I wouldn\u02bct have missed for the world, I have to say. We were all having our picture taken backstage and I thought, this is the best photograph I have ever been in, and I\u02bcve been in one or two. I really have to say I\u02bcm really grateful to PEN New England for the initiative of doing this, and to everybody who made it happen. When I was telling my friends that I was going to come and have the privilege of giving an award to Leonard Cohen, they began to insist that I did certain things. All of these friends were women. One of them said I should kiss him for her. Haven\u02bct done that yet, Leonard. Another of my friends said, \u201aYou know, I live on Clinton Street, and I\u02bcd really like him to come make music for me all through the evening, and I\u02bcll even wear a blue raincoat.\u2018 This is a sign of how much regard and how deeply these songs have entered peoples lives. Yesterday, just as an experiment, I put on my twitter feed. I asked people what was their favorite Leonard Cohen line, and hundreds of people replied with an enormous diversity of lines from this extraordinary songbook. Several of them were among my favorites, but it was just both, the breadth of the response, how much different work was being responded to, how passionately it was being responded to, how much it meant to how many people. It was really very telling. I\u02bcve been listening to Leonard Cohen\u02bcs music ever since I was an undergraduate at Cambridge (the other Cambridge; the old one). It\u02bcs really a thrilling opportunity to have a chance to tell him how much that music has meant to me for over four decades. I said to him before we came on that when we were kids he taught us something about how it might be to be grown up. How to have relationships that were in the real world, that were not kid stuff, but had the pain, the difficulty, the complexity, and the exaltation of real relationships to the real world of adult life.<\/p>\n

Listening to his lyrics again before this evening, I was struck by something I had forgotten perhaps about how much religious imagery there is to be found in them. Jesus crops up in \u201aSuzanne\u2018 and there are the \u201aSisters of Mercy\u2018 and of course there is the great Hallelujah. There has always been something anthemic, something hymn-like about Leonard Cohen\u02bcs greatest songs, though when you start listening closely, you here his wit and his jaundice comedy and sometimes his disillusion undermining those hymnal qualities. Not many hymns would rhyme Hallelujah with what\u02bcs it to ya. Not to mention all the other rhymes in that which are equally non-sacred. I think it\u02bcs true that all great literature begins at the level of the line. If you can\u02bct write a good line, you can\u02bct write a good paragraph, you can\u02bct write a good page, you can\u02bct write a good book. At the level of the line for all these years, Leonard Cohen\u02bcs work has been amazing us again and again. This is work of great beauty and depth, and to put it simply, if I could write like that, I would. I think of poets in the twentieth century who have had a real relationship with meter and rhyme, and who have loved the playfulness of those things, and I think of W. H. Auden and James Fenton, and I think that the kind of playfulness of those rhymes in Hallelujah, for example, is something that an Auden or a Fenton would respond to very immediately because it\u02bcs the kind of language play that you find in their poetry, but there is only one man who writes like this, exploring melancholy and exhaultation, desire and loss, as nobody else can, and so it is with great respect and admiration I am able to present this award. Now it\u02bcs my great pleasure to present the 2012 PEN Award for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence to Mr. Leonard Cohen.\u201c<\/p>\n

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