Leonard Cohen that great song-smith and storyteller with the magnificent and lugubrious voice has a new CD out Popular Problems. Most critics have enthused about it Will Hodgkinson in The Times gave it five stars. Alistair Darling one time chancellor and the leader of the recent No campaign in Scotland is a big fan. I have loved Cohen's work for many years and have a collection of his music. There are so many songs that stand out that reverberates with memories of lives lived. I love that quote of his "everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas in centre stage and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we're left on the sidelines and wonder why we no longer have apart - want a part - in the whole damn thing"?
He says that he favourite words from one of his songs is "the moon stood still on Blueberry Hill. It as if you see the moon suspended you just want to gaze at it - it stops the mind from spinning".
For my part I think the song - Ant't No Cure For Love - its outstanding in is relevance for the both intolerable and intoxicating 'state of mind that is love'.
Happy birthday Leonard and thanks for bringing so much joy to so many people in this strange old world.
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