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"Democracy" was released as the sixth song on Leonard Cohen's 1992 album The Future. [4] It features American musician Jeff Fisher , [ 5 ] who received multiple credits on the album. [ 4 ] The song begins with drums played at a high tempo in the rhythm of a march , which persist through the song. [ 6 ]
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. [1]
[19] The music video for Cohen's song "Closing Time" also won the Juno Award for Best Music Video in 1993. [18] In the original Rolling Stone review, Christian Wright called the album "epic", enthusing " The Future might as easily have been a book: A more troubling, more vexing image of human failure has not been written."
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Cohen was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. In his book Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life, biographer Anthony Reynolds observes that throughout the ordeal, Cohen remained calm: "In public, at least, Cohen did seem remarkably sanguine about the loss. He was never angry or accusatory, and his stock answer to the calamity ...
Cohen Live is a live album by Leonard Cohen released in 1994. The songs were recorded live in 1988 on the I'm Your Man Tour and in 1993 on The Future World Tour. Several of the songs have altered lyrics, which are printed in the liner notes as sung. [3] This was Cohen's first live release since Live Songs in 1973.
In a 2014 Rolling Stone readers poll ranking the top ten Leonard Cohen songs, "Bird on a Wire" came in at #5. Many of the songs from Cohen's second album would appear on 1973's Live Songs, a collection of performances from 1970 and 1972. Songs from a Room was released on CD in 1990.
Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985).It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited with Cohen as ...