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- Summary: The Canadian singer returned from a Buddhist monastery to discover that his business manager had stolen his retirement money. The two-disc set recorded live at London's O2 Arena on July 17, 2008 was part of the tour to help rebuild his retirement.
- Record Label: Sony
- Genre(s): Folk, Live
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Now I've heard, there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 11 out of 11
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MojoApart from the comprehensive compilation aspect and the rich live presence, this double CD also pauses to capture the remarkable way he welcomes 20,000 people to his fireside. [May 2009, p.98]
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The band is on it, the backup singers are solicitous, and Cohen's husk of a voice has been juiced up by the exercise.
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London is by far Cohen's most generous live release, and if it tilts too heavily to the last two decades of his career, it compensates by including virtually all of the classics from the first three.
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Perhaps fate forced Leonard Cohen's hand to stage the tour documented in part on Live in London, but it seems that fate knows just what it's doing, and this album eloquently demonstrates how much Cohen still has to offer, and how clearly his music still speaks to him (and us).
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The London performance has yielded one of the finest live albums to come our way in a long while.
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Cohen manages to find the happy (and probably most obvious) middle ground between his spare origins and the sheen of his later work with light, jazzy instrumentation, with the songs stretched out to allow for several solos and interludes.
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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PaulMApr 7, 2009A towering inspiration!
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FrankHApr 4, 2009
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JackL.Jan 20, 2010In the waste land of contemporary performances Cohen's farewell tour reminds that music is art and can elevate us.
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AdrianKApr 9, 2009There are no words to describe the experience of witnessing Mr Leonard Cohen. Fortunately, there is the music.
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ArdoOct 30, 2009
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Pierre-MichelF.Dec 16, 2009
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JOHNBOct 18, 2009This cd might be good if you want to fall asleep how old are the critics 70 years old. porcupine tree the incident is the cd of the year.
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