Leonard Cohen is "Mr Popular"

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Seems like Leonard Cohen is going down a storm here in the UK:HEADLINES:

I'm your man: singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is so popular his first autumn O2 show sold out in just 24 hours

Hallelujah! Cohen keeps fans happy with third O2 gig

Danny Brierley, Evening Standard

08.08.08

Leonard Cohen, the man behind some of the world's most memorably miserable ballads, is proving so popular he has announced an extra London gig this autumn.

Cohen, who turns 74 next month, has clearly struck a chord with Londoners. His 13 November concert at the O2 arena in Greenwich sold out in just 24 hours, prompting the Canadian singer-songwriter to stage another show the next day. Tickets for that performance on 14 November will go on sale "soon" and are expected to sell out quickly.

Even Cohen's most ardent fans will be surprised by the singer's sudden fashionability among the young, fuelled by a star turn at Glastonbury in June and the Big Chill festival in Ledbury, Herefordshire, at the weekend. The Glastonbury performance attracted rave reviews and his performance of one of his cheerier songs Hallelujah as the sun went down was considered by many the highlight of the festival.

Promoter Rob Hallett said: "London and the UK appear to have an insatiable appetite for this remarkable artist. An epidemic of taste has broken out."

Cohen's world tour, which began in Canada in May and resumes in Europe next month, is his first for 15 years. It has prompted a huge revival in interest in the artist including a Radio 4 documentary Leonard And Marianne, broadcast at the weekend, about his love affair with Marianne Ihlen, the wife of a Norwegian novelist and included an interview with Cohen about the relationship. The couple lived together on a Greek island after meeting in 1960. The affair was immortalised in one of Cohen's best known songs So Long, Marianne, recorded more than four decades ago - before even some of the parents of his new-found fans were born.

It will be the second O2 engagement this year. Cohen first played the venue last month, to critical acclaim.

Evening Standard critic John Aizlewood wrote: "Three hours, one interval and four encores later, he ran - yes ran - off stage, leaving an audience including Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and former Culture Secretary Chris Smith overpowered by a magnificent performance - and not just magnificent for a 73-year-old.

"His warmth, his intelligence and his child-like delight in an adoring audience was enough. Indeed, when he recited A Thousand Kisses Deep, backed only by Neil Larsen's keyboards, to a backdrop of reverential silence until the standing ovation afterwards, it was as if Leonard Cohen had set up camp in my lounge."

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An epidemic of taste has broken out."

indeed...

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man what's up with the old guy revival? leonard cohen's 74, william shatner's kicking ass on boston legal at 70whatever, and there's an old guy running for president of the US.

is this some weird side effect of viagra or something?

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man what's up with the old guy revival? leonard cohen's 74, william shatner's kicking ass on boston legal at 70whatever, and there's an old guy running for president of the US.

is this some weird side effect of viagra or something?

In Leonard Cohen's case, he needs the money. He got stiffed by his manager or someone like that. They cleaned him out. I read somewhere that he will make 10 million for this tour. Not bad for a 74 year old.

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man what's up with the old guy revival? leonard cohen's 74, william shatner's kicking ass on boston legal at 70whatever, and there's an old guy running for president of the US.

is this some weird side effect of viagra or something?

In Leonard Cohen's case, he needs the money. He got stiffed by his manager or someone like that. They cleaned him out. I read somewhere that he will make 10 million for this tour. Not bad for a 74 year old.

10 milion USD? :shock: the approx 300 were from me.

if viagra gives that kind of side effect then you should use it. You might make 10 m. when you're 74.

This tour must be his last tour and I don't hope to see any of his concert in DK anytime soon. He has enough money to spend for the rest of his life already but I do hope to see him write more.

Pandorea... He is going back to Europe to continue his tour, before returning here in the Autumn, so you may be lucky. Try checking his itinerary.

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man what's up with the old guy revival? leonard cohen's 74, william shatner's kicking ass on boston legal at 70whatever, and there's an old guy running for president of the US.

is this some weird side effect of viagra or something?

In Leonard Cohen's case, he needs the money. He got stiffed by his manager or someone like that. They cleaned him out. I read somewhere that he will make 10 million for this tour. Not bad for a 74 year old.

10 milion USD? :shock: the approx 300 were from me.

if viagra gives that kind of side effect then you should use it. You might make 10 m. when you're 74.

This tour must be his last tour and I don't hope to see any of his concert in DK anytime soon. He has enough money to spend for the rest of his life already but I do hope to see him write more.

Pandorea... He is going back to Europe to continue his tour, before returning here in the Autumn, so you may be lucky. Try checking his itinerary.

just checked he is coming back to Copenhagen on 17-Oct-08 My husband and I are planning to go to Rome during that time but we might change the programme for the sake of Leonard's songs.

No, Leonard should change the Copenhagen date so he can sing for you and your husband in Roma!