We drew inspiration from the duet by Tori Kelly & Jennifer Hudson on the soundtrack for the movie, 'Sing'. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. This is our acoustic guitar karaoke for Leonard Cohens classic, 'Hallelujah'. The instant 1 national bestselling final work from Leonard Cohen, Canadas most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose. By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who set out to explore our darkest questions and came back wanting, yearning for more. The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces, and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker.Īn enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen's storied literary career, The Flame showcases the full range of Leonard Cohen's lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funny. The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life.

Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Mafor his status among the 'highest and most influential echelon of songwriters'.The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world. He has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. His work often explores the themes of religion, isolation, sexuality, and complex interpersonal relationships.Ĭohen's songs and poetry have influenced many other singer-songwriters, and more than a thousand renditions of his work have been recorded. Since the 1980s he has typically sung in lower registers (bass baritone, sometimes bass), with accompaniment from electronic synthesizers and female backing singers. The 1970s were a musically restless period in which his influences broadened to encompass pop, cabaret, and world music. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963.Ĭohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

The Flame by Leonard Cohen