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...Although not all producers follow the same script (Phil Spector pulled a gun on Leonard Cohen), one of the job’s principal roles is to make the talent feel cherished....
...Leonard Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and Luciano Pavarotti are among the starry subjects, portrayed with an insider’s proximity but also insight....
...Leonard Cohen’s last album You Want It Darker comes to mind, with its synagogue choir and reckoning with Jewish faith....
...In Pink Bikini’s song “Ghosts”, she sings about being a teenager in her bedroom obsessively immersed in Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen albums, yet also wondering why their record sleeves showed photos of anonymous...
...Leonard Snoeks, the partner of a city planner, turned on the speaker he had strapped behind his seat, the size of an ’80s boombox....
...(Other opinions are available: Ludovic Hunter-Tilney was lukewarm about it in his review.)...
...Their business partner is one of the most powerful figures in the music business: Sir Leonard Blavatnik, the Ukrainian-born billionaire who owns most of Warner Music Group....
...His break came when he successfully auditioned to be the lyricist for Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, which opened on Broadway in 1957....
...A persistent guitar motif digs away as Moffat utters his vocals in a low voice, like a Scottish revenant of Leonard Cohen. The music deftly switches gear into orchestral electronic rock....
...However, their handsomely wracked sound, drawn from such sources as Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Velvet Underground, Lee Hazlewood and Nick Cave, fitted less snugly into a triumphalist narrative of British...
...Leonard Hyman Author, ‘America’s Electric Utilities’,Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...Second are the rare typeface and language hunters, focusing on languages such as Tamil, Tibetan and Georgian (£500-£3,600)....
...But Sir Leonard has given more to the Republicans since 2016, including a $1m donation to Trump’s inauguration committee....
...Musicians hate being compared to other musicians, even ones as exalted as Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen....
...Opener “Save the Whale” initially comes across as a Leonard Cohen pastiche, with Cocker intoning mordant lines about libido and debility in a gravelly sing-speak....
...Robert Hunter, founder of City Disabilities, which mentors City professionals, says all prejudice is “lousy management, because it blinds you to the factors that really affect profitability”....
...Its opening track, “Pigeons”, is bookended by knowing references to Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen....
...Beats resonate from drum machines, clear but thin, an effect that nods at Leonard Cohen’s later albums....
...This weekend, Mr Sher aired his concerns in another letter, which he sent to seven of the museum’s trustees, led by chairman emeritus Leonard Lauder....
...Leonard Cohen made a grand farewell with his album You Want It Darker , a set of indomitable songs about mortality, love and religion released just before his death in 2016....
...A choir of female backing vocalists occasionally add their voices to Perry’s quavering, impish tones, an effect reminiscent of the women who sang on Leonard Cohen’s songs....
...The effect calls to mind Leonard Cohen’s use of the female voice as a warm backdrop to masculine tales of sex and death. But the results fall short of Cohen’s high standards....
...The way she dwells on the phrase “Well, goodbye” at one point, during an awkward phone call with an ex, brings to mind the title of a song by that maestro of break-ups, Leonard Cohen: “Hey, That’s No Way...
...Yet like Shaw’s shark hunter or the Dreyfuss protagonists in Jaws and Close Encounters, it’s livid, luminous, committed, unafraid....
...ever “multiple owner” sale of books and manuscripts in London next Wednesday, with a record 393 lots on offer featuring everything from medieval illuminated manuscripts to the first editions of poems by Leonard...
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