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DARK SECRETS: 5 | Vintage Vibes

Is 1973 the second-best year ever for great albums? From Bob Marley to Little Feat, the case is strong

SAN DIEGO — A year ago, I enthusiastically wrote that more truly great albums were released in 1972 than in any other year before or since.

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Spector on Sky and NOW review: an excellent account of the famous producer’s fall - and why it took so long

The directors deserve great credit for this nuanced and even-handed account of Spector’s misdeeds

Evening Standard

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Liberation Day by George Saunders and Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

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Music show: Baptiste W. Hamon on mixing chanson française with a twang of country music

Mixing powerful French texts with a twang of American country music, Baptiste W. Hamon has been compared to Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs and even Leonard Cohen. He recently released a third album called “Jusqu'à la lumière”. He tells FRANCE 24’s Florence Villeminot about recording in Bristol with…

France 24

A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen review – intimations of immortality

A fascinating collection of early fiction foreshadows motifs and concerns that Cohen the performer later mined across decades

The Guardian - UK

A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen review – violent literary beginnings

A novella and short stories from the 1950s showcase Cohen’s fascinating self-fashioning, but also a taint of bitterness

The Guardian - UK

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song review – a thorough, respectful documentary

Contributions from John Cale, Judy Collins and more illuminate the singer-songwriter’s art through his best-known song

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How Wall Street stormed the music business

Investors poured billions into buying rights, turning pop songs into a new asset class — but then the economy stalled

Financial Times

‘Trying not to be funny was a challenge’: Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie on his serious solo debut

He has written duets for man and Muppet, parodied Morrissey in The Simpsons, and become Hollywood’s go-to for bringing ‘heart’ to the movies. Now he’s ready to see if people want to hear the guy behind the gags

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s a raw energy’: Hydra, artists’ haven, still casts its spell

The Greek island has attracted poets, writers and musicians for over 8o years, from Henry Miller to Leonard Cohen and Jeff Koons

The Guardian - UK

Movie review: ‘Hallelujah’ doc tunes into Leonard Cohen’s secret chords

Get ready to hear the Leonard Cohen classic “Hallelujah” sung a lot of times by a lot of people in the deep-dive documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.”

Boston Herald

‘I said, Don, it’s time for you to reveal’: 50 years later, the truth behind American Pie

In an expansive new documentary, Don McLean talks about the much-discussed meaning of his enduring hit song

The Guardian - US

Death of a Ladies’ Man review – Gabriel Byrne charms in Philip Roth style dramedy

The Irish actor is compelling as a womanising professor who begins to realise his best days are over, with added Leonard Cohen

The Guardian - UK

Leonard Cohen documentary Hallelujah explores the creation and cultural impact of the iconic song

Hallelujah, the song that launched a thousand covers — by musicians such as John Cale, Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright — is the focus of this new documentary.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Hallelujah’, a Dud Turned Classic Song, the Focus of New Cohen Doc

Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" pretty much flopped when it came out nearly 40 years ago. Today, it enjoys cult status and has been performed by everyone from Bob Dylan to Jeff Buckley and Bon Jovi -- even appearing in animated hit "Shrek" -- in a unique evolution detailed in a…

The Guardian - UK

How the light gets in on the darkest days

Brief letters: Leonard Cohen’s Anthem | Champagne socialists | Betting on high blood pressure | Relatives at Wimbledon | Country diary’s play on words

The New Daily

July movie guide: Hallelujah! Leonard Cohen doco, Thor and Where the Crawdads Sing

With audience attendance at movies skyrocketing in the March quarter according to Roy Morgan, things are about to get busier when Thor hits cinemas

The Guardian - US

‘More than a song’: the enduring power of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

In a new documentary, fans and experts explore the legacy of a song that was originally shunned before becoming a timeless classic

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Bittersweet by Susan Cain review – a mawkish manifesto for the happy-sad

The author of Quiet again bangs the drum for the world’s sensitive souls, but her unflagging earnestness is depressingly short of nuance and humour

Salon

Is this what love smells like?

Mandy Aftel toiled for years trying to recreate the scent of lost love. Those who've smelled it say she succeeded

Asharq Al-Awsat

British Firm Acquires Entire Catalog of Folk Icon Leonard Cohen

British song management firm Hipgnosis said Sunday it has acquired the entire catalog of famed Canadian singer-poet Leonard Cohen, in the latest big catalog purchase to hit the music world. The London-based company said it had acquired rights to "all 278 songs and derivatives" written by Cohen, including the haunting…

The Guardian - UK

Leonard Cohen: previously unpublished novel to be released in autumn

Written in 1956, A Ballet of Lepers will be published alongside other short fiction and a radio play from Cohen’s early career

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