Truth

[Steven Koteff]

Robert Christgau's review of *Live in London *confirms most of that. If
he's assumed to have some credible intel.

http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=leonard+cohen

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:27 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saw him last year. Asked a fan friend why Cohen seems to tour to
> Australia around twice a year (utterly unheard of) and she told me a
> story about how he was royally screwed over by a manager, I think?
> Which left him in great financial trouble. So he has to essentially
> work his butt off in his 80s just to pay the bills.
>
> Can't remember the details or if it was actually true.
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > Great, great song.
> >
> > Two years ago Cohen took Berlin near the Olympic Stadium and played a
> > particularly intense version of "The Partisan" to honour the occasion. It
> > was quite unforgettable.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > P.S. Actually, and perhaps sacrilegiously, I prefer John Cale's version
> of
> > "Hallelujah" to the original.
> >
> > P.P.S. "Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain
> > lied"
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