BIRD ON A WIRE

UK 1974

Documentary of
Leonard Cohen's World Tour




On the soundtrack:

The Music crept by us (poem)
Bird On The Wire
Avalanche
You know who I am
Seems so long Ago, Nancy
Sister of Mercy
Famous blue raincoat
One of us cannot be wrong
The Partisan
Tonight will be fine
Passing through
How we used to approach
the book of changes: 1966 (poem)
Suzanne
Chelsea Hotel
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye
So long, Marianne


The world premiere of this feature film by Tony Palmer was at the Rainbow Theater on July 5, 1974, in London. The original version cost over 120.000 USD to produce, but Cohen was not satisfied. He spent six months in England editing and rearranging the film to show the deeper elements in music, the conditions that produced it, and his interaction with the audiences. It contains songs from albums as well as concerts, including those of Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, and Israel in March and April 1972. It is a documentary rather than an art film. Color, 90 min. (Ira Nadel: Life in Art, p. 111; Dorman & Rawlins: Prophet of the Heart, p. 279)




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