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Leonard Cohen Web Directory
The Best Online Material On Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen Discography, Lyrics, and Cover Art
List of Covers of Leonard Cohen Songs2
- A Thousand Covers Deep Listed By Artist (LeonardCohenFiles)
- A Thousand Covers Deep Listed By Title (LeonardCohenFiles)
Concordance To Leonard Cohen’s Words/Phrases
Leonard Cohen 2009-2009 World Tour
- Schedule With Links To Reports Of Completed Concert (LeonardCohenFiles)
- Concert Notifications, Changes, Fan Reports, Discussion (LeonardCohenForum)
- Comprehensive Media Coverage Of Concerts & Tour, Including Photos (Speaking Cohen)
- Setlists (Maarten Massa)
- Best Of Tour (LeonardCohenSearch)
Leonard Cohen Tours (Before 2008)
Examine Occurrences Of And Relationships Between Words/Phrases In Leonard Cohen’s Songs With Word Trees
Films, Video, & TV About Leonard Cohen or Featuring His Work
Chords To Leonard Cohen Songs
Leonard Cohen Nicknames
Informative, Insightful, or Entertaining Articles
General Biography
The Mount Baldy-Zen Monk Experience
- Leonard Cohen Unplugged By Pico Iyer3
The Influence of Judaism On Leonard Cohen’s Music
Sui Generis
- Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen’s head?5
70 facts about Leonard Cohen on the occasion of his 70th birthday - Leonard Cohen by John Walsh6
Critiques Of Leonard Cohen’s Work In General
- Leonard Cohen: The Romantic in a Ragpicker’s Trade by Paul Williams7
- The Essential Leonard Cohen by Pico Iyer
- The Fiction Of Leonard Cohen by T.F. Rigelhof8
Essays On Specific Leonard Cohen Songs and Writings
- “And she feeds you tea and oranges…” The Story of Suzanne By Paul Kennedy
- “It Doesn’t Matter Which You Heard”: the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” by Michael Barthel
- Few can do love and loss like the Old Testament – except Leonard Cohen (An essay on Hallelujah) By Howard Jacobson
- Leonard Cohen’s Poems-Songs9 (An examination of several poems Cohen engineered into songs) by Judith Skelton Grant.10
Articles On Materials Once Removed11
- Nocturnal Admissions: Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man by D.K. Holm. Review of film, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man
Special Collections
- New York Times Topics: Leonard Cohen
A collection of NY Times articles about Leonard Cohen (23 as of 15 May 2008), links to Cohen references, and other Leonard Cohen resources12
Online Audio and Video
Leonard Cohen Interviews
- CBC Archives – Leonard Cohen: Canada’s Melancholy Bard
5 television clips and 7 radio clips recorded at CBC from 1961-199313
Treats
Leonard Cohen Rare Songs
- Leonard Cohen – Rare Live Songs
MP3 files of unusual Cohen songs, improvisations, and conversations with concert audiences available for download
Handwritten Notebooks Leonard Cohen Used To Create Songs
- “Closing Time” Notebook – Page 1
- “Alexandra Leaving” Notebook – Page 1
- “Field Commander Cohen” Notebook – Page 1
Art (Other Than Standard Cover Art)
Covers of Hallelujah
- Covers Of Hallelujah
MP3 files of “almost all the covers of Hallelujah”14 available for download - My Old Kentucky Blog Hallelujah Covers 2008 Update
Leonard Cohen Lookalikes
Leonard Cohen Mask
- If You Want I’ll Wear A Leonard Cohen Mask For You
Masks, suitable for Halloween, depicting Leonard Cohen, Anjani, and Phil Spector
Humor – Best Humor About Leonard Cohen: Parodies, Spoofs, Jokes, …
- Leonard Cohen’s Day Job Video of parody song by Austin Lounge Lizards. Lyrics and other information
- Leonard Cohen’s Seven Immutable Laws Of Business By Ken Krimstein (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
- Leonard Cohen’s Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In By Nancy White. Lyrics to funny song about Leonard Cohen
- Throwing In The Leonard Cohen (Beach) Towel by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- 10 Unbelievable Secrets About Leonard Cohen by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- Leonard Cohen Tour Post Permutations & Pix Mix by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- Another Leonard Cohen Look-alike Nominee by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- Oh My Cohen! They’re Calling Us A Cult by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- The Cult Of Leonard Cohen Heresy, Part II by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- The Lost Leonard Cohen Album – Songs Of Love And Halloween by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- Inductees Enter Wrong Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
- Leonard Cohen Wedding Music: “I Do” – But Do I Have To Dance All Night? by DrHGuy (Heck Of A Guy)
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- The Leonard Cohen Custom Search Engine Explained discusses how the search mechanism operates and the advantages it offers. [↩]
- On occasion, the number of covers of a given Cohen song is needed. This can be a problematic task because the list of covers is not numbered. A relatively simple means of calculating this number is explained at this post: Calculating The Number Of Covers Listed At A Thousand Covers Deep [↩]
- In Buzz, Los Angeles, April 1998 [↩]
- The Australian Financial Review, June 8, 2001 [↩]
- The Guardian, September 17, 2004 [↩]
- Mojo, September 1994 [↩]
- Originally published in Crawdaddy magazine, March 1975 [↩]
- Originally appeared in Paragraph: Canadian Fiction Review (Volume 19, No. 4, Spring 1998), pp. 2-5 [↩]
- Studies in Canadian Literature/Études En Littérature Canadienne , Vol. 2.1 1977 [↩]
- This is a close textual analysis but has few technical terms. It is not a casual read but rewards the effort [↩]
- I.e., Articles dealing with works based on Leonard Cohen but not on Cohen’s own productions, such as articles on Cohen tribute concerts, songs about Cohen, critiques of Cohen, movies and books about Cohen, etc [↩]
- Thanks to Dick Straub, who introduced me to this excellent resource [↩]
- My vote for Best Of Show among the clips comprising Leonard Cohen: Canada’s Melancholy Bard is On the road to singing sensation , which was originally broadcast in conjunction with the publication of Cohen’s novel, “Beautiful Losers,” in 1966 on This Hour Has Seven Days. See my post, The Leonard Cohen CBC Interviews [↩]
- Post is from May 2006 and does not include covers of Hallelujah done since then [↩]










