THE LEONARD COHEN NEWSFLASH



OLD IDEAS
- THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM


Old Ideas, Leonard Cohen's new studio album will be released on January 31, 2012. Click here to see the cover art, the track list, pre-order info and other details! Available in CD and Vinyl formats. Also a special version with a 12" x 12" (30 x 30 cm) lithograph, numbered and limited to 5,500.
Watch the lyric video of the song Show Me the Place. Listen to the song Darkness
Listen to the song Banjo
The New Yorker has printed the new lyric of “Going Home,” in its January 23rd issue (on newsstands January 16th). The song is also streamed on The New Yorker website. Direct links: Lyric and the Audio

Listen to the whole album here at NPR.org

Marie's Media Report is here.

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD

Leonard Cohen has won one of Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias awards for his poetic gifts and thought-provoking songs. The prize foundation praised him as one of the most influential authors of modern times. The prize was presented on October 21 by Crown Prince Felipe in the Northern city of Oviedo, capital of the Asturias region.Click here for more information! The link takes you to the beginning of the Oviedo report on the Forum.


Leonard Cohen is featured in a new Sony commercial in which he recites a specially written verse called “That’s What I Heard You Say”. Watch the TV spot!


April 1, 2011: Leonard Cohen Awarded the Ninth Glenn Gould Prize! More here!



Two box sets will be released on October 10/11, 2011:
  • The Complete Columbia Albums Collection. All 17 studio and live albums, remastered, in a deluxe box. More here
  • The Complete Studio Albums Collection. All 11 studio albums, remastered, in a box. More here



    A recent DVD/CD, BluRay, LP release with 12 songs in 16:9 high definition with surround 5.1 sound, filmed in various locations during the World Tour 2008-2009. Bonus material: interviews with the band and crew members. More here



    A complete concert on 2 CDs and one DVD, recorded at O2 in London on July 17, 2008. 26 songs, run time 157 min. Directed and produced by Edward Sanders, released by Sony Music in 2009. More here



    Live at Isle of Wight on August 31, 1970. The famous festival concert finally on CD/DVD, 2LP, and BluRay. 19 songs (audio) / 16 songs (video). Released in October 2009 by Columbia/Legacy. More here

    Complete Filmography of Leonard Cohen here.



    "Poems and Songs", a collection of poems and song lyrics by Random House. Brand new song lyrics now printed for the first time!



    Leonard Cohen's most recent book is a collection of previously unpublished poems and drawings, many of them created on Mount Baldy and India. 240 pages. First editions in 2006. More here. Find all editions in various languages here.

    Complete Bibliography of Leonard Cohen here. Gallery of all editions from all over the world here.



    Leonard Cohen's recent studio album Dear Heather was released in 2004 by Sony Music. More here.

    In June 2010 Leonard Cohen talked about his next album, here.

    Complete Discography here.



    Tony Palmer's documentary film from 1974 now restored to DVD. Filmed during Cohen's 1972 tour. Remastered by Tony Palmer and Isolde Films. More here



    The 2010 World Tour (July 25 - December 12, 2010) took Leonard Cohen and his band to Europe, New Zealand and Australia, and finally to the USA and Canada. Complete list of concerts with links to reports written by our members, reviews and photo galleries here.
    Introduction to the tour band here.

    Connect with the Leonard Cohen Forum to read about the 2010 Tour here.




    The World Tour 2008-2009: 191 concerts in Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and USA. Index page with links to the member reports, reviews and photo galleries here. Concert reports from our members here. Links to our special tour pages here. Complete setlists for all concerts here (pdf file compiled by Maarten Massa).

    Media coverage on Marie's Speaking Cohen website

    Index pages for all earlier tours here.





    • The Leonard Cohen Files

    This website has been online since September 1995. We have counted more than 3.4 million visitors. Today the site has over 1000 pages and a special Forum for people interested in Leonard Cohen's work. The site is hosted by Jarkko Arjatsalo (Finland). All contributions are welcome to ja@nebula.fi

    Interview with the webmaster here at 1heckofaguy.com

    Our Links page is here

    Direct links to other remarkable Leonard Cohen websites:
  • Official site hosted by Sony
  • Leonard Cohen on Facebook
  • Speaking Cohen by Marie Mazur
  • 1HeckOfAGuy by Allan Showalter
  • A Thousand Kisses Deep by Tom Sakic
  • The French site by Patrice Clos




    The Leonard Cohen Forum at www.leonardcohenforum.com is the meeting point for our members and all other Leonard Cohen fans. Read the news, discuss the concerts, songs, and books, and get answers to your questions! More than 200,000 messages posted by our 25,000 members. Hosted by Jarkko Arjatsalo, Marie Mazur, Tom Sakic, and several effective moderators.




    Leonard Cohen has contributed this website since 1997. Many of his previously unpublished poems, drawings and other works of art have first been posted on the Blackening Pages here.




    Our members organize biennial Leonard Cohen Events since 1998. The first was in Lincoln UK, followed by Montreal, Hydra, New York, Berlin, and Edmonton. The 2010 Event was in Krakow, Poland, on August 6-8. An Event report is here. In August 2012 we will meet in Madison, Wisconsin. Registration to the Event is now open, since September 13, 2011.More here

    Index page for all other Events, meetups and fandom here.




    Between the biennial Events we have a meetup on the Greek island of Hydra. The next one will be on June 2013. More here.

    More about Hydra in the 2002 Event report here.



    Find cover stories in magazines around the world here.



    More than 60 tribute albums with Leonard's songs have been released by artists around the globe, and we present all of them. A complete list with links to individual pages here.

    We have also compiled a continuosly growing list of all cover versions recorded by other artists and released on their albums. The list has now more than 2000 titles. Find it here.



    Leonard Cohen's recent honors include: Prince of Asturias award (2011), Member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences / The Performing Arts category (2011), The Ninth Glenn Gould Prize (2011), The Songwriters Hall of Fame (2010), The Grammy Lifetime Achievements Award (2010), The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2008)... Read more at leonardcohenhallsoffame.com hosted by Roy Salame.

    Timeline and comprehensive list of Awards, nominations, titles, and honours here

    Leonard Cohen interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi for CBC: here on YouTube


    Recent unauthorized biographies:
    Tim Footman: Hallelujah (Chrome Dreams, UK 2009)
    Christof Graf: Titan der Worte (Edel Books, Germany, 2010
    Anthony Reynolds: Leonard Cohen - A Remarkable Life (Omnibus Press, UK, 2010)
    Alberto Manzano: Leonard Cohen - La Biografia (Libros Cupula, Spain, 2010)
    Complete list of all biographies here.

    HOW TO CONTACT
    LEONARD COHEN

    Leonard Cohen lives in Los Angeles and Montreal. All correspondence should be addressed to his managers, Mr. Robert Kory, at rkory@rkmgment.com, for management matters, or to Mrs. Michelle Rice at mrice@koryrice.com, for legal matters.
    (More here).
    Mailing address:
     Kory & Rice, LLP
    9300 Wilshire Blvd.
    Suite 200
    Beverly Hills, CA 90212
    USA

    Fax: (1)-310-278-7641




    The Leonard Cohen Files is hosted since 1995
    by Jarkko Arjatsalo, ja@nebula.fi



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