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Index: Selected References

The items on this page are some of the online material about Leonard Cohen that I’ve found especially helpful, insightful, or entertaining. The content on this page is also displayed in FAQ format (with headings listed together and linked to their reference items), which may make for faster discovery of the desired information.

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Leonard Cohen Discography, Lyrics, and Cover Art

List of Covers of Leonard Cohen Songs1

Find (Cohen Concordance) Words/Phrases In Leonard Cohen’s

Films, Video, & TV About Leonard Cohen or Featuring His Work

Leonard Cohen Tours (Before 2008)

Leonard Cohen Nicknames

Informative, Insightful, or Entertaining Articles

General Biography

The Mount Baldy-Zen Monk Experience

The Influence of Judaism On Leonard Cohen’s Music

Sui Generis

Critiques Of Leonard Cohen’s Work In General

Essays On Specific Leonard Cohen Song(s) and Writings

Articles On Materials Once Removed10

Special Collections

Online Audio and Video

Leonard Cohen Interviews

Treats

Leonard Cohen Rare Songs

Handwritten Notebooks Leonard Cohen Used To Create Songs

Leonard Cohen Chords

  • Cohen Chords
    Chords to Leonard Cohen Songs - Entire site available as download

Art (Other Than Standard Cover Art)

Covers of Hallelujah



Footnotes

  1. On occasion, the number of covers of a given Cohen song is needed. This can be a problematic task because the list of covers is not numbered and some of the songs have well over 100 covers. Counting covers by hand is likely to induce errors and, at best, is annoying. There is, however, a simple means of calculating this number: (1) Open Excel or any spreadsheet. If no spreadsheet is available, open a text editor such as Microsoft Word. (2) Copy the group of covers to be counted, taking care to include all of the covers but not copying extra lines. (3) Paste this into the upper left margin of the spreadsheet. Each cover should automatically be placed into one row of the spreadsheet. The row numbers on the left indicate the number of covers. If Microsoft Word is used instead of a spreadsheet, take care to paste the contents such that the first cover is on the first line of the Word document. Go to Preferences-Properties. In the box that opens, click the “statistics” tab. The number of lines listed will be the same as the number of covers. [↩]
  2. In Buzz, Los Angeles, April 1998 [↩]
  3. The Australian Financial Review, June 8, 2001 [↩]
  4. The Guardian, September 17, 2004 [↩]
  5. Mojo, September 1994 [↩]
  6. Originally published in Crawdaddy magazine, March 1975 [↩]
  7. Originally appeared in Paragraph: Canadian Fiction Review (Volume 19, No. 4, Spring 1998), pp. 2-5 [↩]
  8. Studies in Canadian Literature/Études En Littérature Canadienne , Vol. 2.1 1977 [↩]
  9. This is a close textual analysis but has few technical terms. It is not a casual read but rewards the effort [↩]
  10. I.e., Articles dealing with works based on Leonard Cohen but not on Cohen’s own productions, such as articles on Cohen tribute concerts, songs about Cohen, critiques of Cohen, movies and books about Cohen, etc [↩]
  11. Thanks to Dick Straub, who introduced me to this excellent resource [↩]
  12. My vote for Best Of Show among the clips comprising Leonard Cohen: Canada’s Melancholy Bard is On the road to singing sensation , which was originally broadcast in conjunction with the publication of Cohen’s novel, “Beautiful Losers,” in 1966 on This Hour Has Seven Days. See my post, The Leonard Cohen CBC Interviews [↩]
  13. Post is from May 2006 and does not include covers of Hallelujah done since then [↩]