Name: Various Positions
Brand: Leonard Cohen

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886972384825

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2013-12-01

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Sony

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Sales:8.875

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Leonard Cohen

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60s & 70s

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Leonard Cohen was a Canadian poet, singer, and songwriter born on September 21, 1934, in Montreal, Quebec. He passed away on November 7, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. Cohen's artistic journey began with the publication of his poetry collections "Let Us Compare Mythologies" (1956) and "The Spice Box of Earth" (1961). After spending time in Europe, he settled on the Greek island of Hydra where he wrote more poetry and novels. In 1967, Cohen moved to the United States to pursue a career as a folk musician.

Cohen recorded 14 studio albums during his lifetime and left an indelible mark on music history. His work inspired numerous artists including John Cale whose cover of Cohen's song "Hallelujah" became widely known through Jeff Buckley's rendition. In addition to his musical achievements, Cohen was also recognized for his contributions as a poet and songwriter. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 as a performer and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.

Despite his success, Cohen sought solace at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center near Los Angeles where he spent five years immersed in seclusion. During this time, he became ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk under the name "Jikan," meaning "silence." Leonard Cohen's legacy lives on through his timeless music

nice 180 gm repress of the album that includes the amazing original version of hallelujah. various positions was leonard cohen's first album of the 1980s, yet was in keeping with the rest of his albums in two important respects: one, it sounded absolutely nothing like anything else anyone else was doing; two, it was a compelling reason for anyone else dealing in songs of love and its loss to wonder why they were bothering. as a lyricist, cohen has few, if any, peers—he has never been the relentless doom-monger of popular myth, but a wise, warm and frequently very funny chronicler of heartbreak. cohen, like very few others, has always appreciated that love is at least as much comedy as tragedy. various positions contains some of cohen's best—"dance me to the end of love", "coming back to you" and a shortened, accusatory version of "hallelujah", later covered to such majestic effect by jeff buckley. it also contains the bizarre country epic "the captain", in which cohen plays the part of a young officer being handed command of his unit by his dying superior. all are sung in cohen's trademark husky drone and all are the work of a writer who, here as always, uses language like vincent used paint.

Various Positions

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