Oh my God how old I am now! Love the song and Leonard Cohen that was awarded with the Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for 2011. Suzanne makes me always cry.
Thanks a lot Radiohades for sharing the videoand ith your kind permission I am adding it to my favorites ( maybe I alredy did it but I am so dizzy, hehehehe)
Wow, this is the first time I have ever heard Leonard Cohen! He's sort of reminds me of a very slow, Neil Diamond song--though Neil Diamond had a much better voice! But this man seems to be held in high esteem as a songwriter! Sincerely, BobbyK
This song is so beautiful. I love the Cohen! Totally genius, If you like this song, you should check out ''Adiina'' by Ali Murray, or anything by Ali Murray for that matter. Cohen and Murray are my 2 favourite songwriters.Musically very different, but they both make me cry...
I first heard this song in 69' it was one of my sister Susans favourite songs, she was murdered 16 years ago and I miss her coz I loved her, when I hear this song I think of her, I love you Sue and miss you. X
If you love Leonard Cohen, and surrealistic symbolistic lyrics, you’d like my music too. He’s one of my two great musical heroes. I made a song called "A Winter Evening's Tale”. This is also for all of us folks facing 2011. Do check it out in my channel or check it out in the video response of this awesome video. The song references Pilgrim's Progress, bible, Alice in the wonderland, Revelations, crusades etc. It also depicts eerie classical paintings. Have a folky new year!
I have just returned from a L.C concert in Perth Western Australia...........his voice is beautiful........liquid chocolate, silk and a little gravel.
I am surfer and fist heard Leonard on a flight to Hawaii not that long ago, I was going through music a friend have given me and gave Mr Cohen a spin.. Like all great music I wasn't sure about it at first but soon enough i couldn't get these incredible songs out of my head.. The line 'Jesus was a sailor at the time he walked on water' often came to me while i was surfing sunset point.. usually around the time a massive set wave came and the horizon disappeared..
Where have the last 40 years gone? it seems just like yesterday, 40 years, not days, not weeks, but years. I feel no different, yes my daughter's speak a slightly different language to me, I have began to envy young people, was Hendrix better than cold play? you better believe it!! I take just one comfort, one day 45 years down the line, one of the youth's I am talking about now will be sitting writing the same words that I write now. and so the wheel of life moves on.....
no te retengo más vete,,marcha....ya. intenta encontrar la felicidad q yo no te dí. vive,,,,,,,por fin sin mi. deja de ser un cobarde y vive tu libertad. ampliamente.. y sin hacerme daño. vete ya,,,,,,,,,no te demores.. yo si ,te abro la jaula.
I just discovered Leonard Cohen and I am 43 and I am very into older music. Somehow I missed him until now....Excellent poet and seems to hit his stride in his later work..
This has been 'my' song since I first heard it on the jukebox in the Men's Bar of the Students Union at Newcastle University in 1968ish, the first year women were allowed in the Men's Bar! Later I lived in a house by a river, and Cohen's songs have been with me ever since.
Leonard Cohen is without a doubt the greatest poet ever,and his music is timeless.I've heard him discribed as Canada's Bob Dylan,you can't compare him to Dylan. He is Leonard Cohan, a true legend.
And to think how far these baby boomers have come! Wall Street greed destroying the world's economy, massive unemployment, environmental chaos. Thanx boomers. Oh I know someone (a boomer) will retort by blaming someone else but there are very few people left on this earth older than the boomers. Guess you'll have to blame us young people.
@1gdfjf You're pretty much right about boomers, but don't confuse the '60s idealism typified by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan with the '80s-and-later boomer greed and every-man-for-himself capitalism set in motion by Ronald Reagan.
@tommygoodkin hopefully he would have the self respect to deny such an opportunity to be degraded an misrepresented my some dickhead with enough money to make a movie about him
I heard this on an Airliner coming back from Germany to my wife, susan, pregnant with our first born. It took me years to find out who did it, Nick Cave doe a good version of it too.
I was there ... and he played very late/in the early hours... and he was truly moving and, more surprisingly ,rocking a truly unforgetable experience ... I had gone to see hendrix but cohen just blew me away ....
@Baskerville22 - oh, you're just jealous he's Canadian, and there are tons of great artists Canada has given the world - Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Band, Gordon Lightfoot - while Australia has given us Olivia Newton John.
@ApocalypsePlough Also we have Frank Marino(Mahogany Rush), Pat Travers, Rush,The Tragically hip,Kim Mitchell (Max Webster)and Triumph are just a few more
Jipsieyes... Ouvi a musica Suzanne na casa de um amigo ele tinha o DVD do show da Isle of Wight 1970. O interessante foi como a aquela musica poetica me tocou. Uma unica audição e eu ja estava facinado em querer ouvir de novo.
Algumas semanas depois me deu uma enorme vontade de ouvir a musica Suzanne denovo. O problema foi que eu perdi contato com esse amigo, e fiquei sem saber quem era o cantor.
Jipsieyes ... Suzanne heard the music in the house of a friend he had the DVD of the show's Isle of Wight in 1970. The interesting thing was how that song touched me poetic. A single hearing and I was already in Fascinated want to hear again.
A few weeks later gave me a huge desire to hear the music again Suzanne. The problem was that I lost contact with that friend, and I did not know who was the singer.
Jipsieyes ... Suzanne heard the music in the house of a friend he had the DVD of the show's Isle of Wight in 1970. The interesting thing was how that song touched me poetic. A single hearing and I was already in Fascinated want to hear again.
A few weeks later gave me a huge desire to hear the music again Suzanne. The problem was that I lost contact with that friend, and I did not know who was the singer.
Jipsieyes ... Suzanne heard the music in the house of a friend he had the DVD of the show's Isle of Wight in 1970. The interesting thing was how that song touched me poetic. A single hearing and I was already in Fascinated want to hear again.
A few weeks later gave me a huge desire to hear the music again Suzanne. The problem was that I lost contact with that friend, and I did not know who was the singer.
the woman at 1:17 makes a beautiful shot, the mist from her mouth, her smiling mouth and eyes and Leonard Cohen playing in the background. genuinely happy to be there, ahhh, i wish i was born 40 years earlier
I was there at the "Isle of Wight" 1970, a chaotic festival, but an experience never to be forgotten. Cohen played on the last night, well after midnight I think, and I especially remember "famous Blue Raincoat" with the line "It's four in the morning" - because it almost was! take the TIME to sit and LISTEN to great lyrics of Cohen and others, it will reward you, it will do things to your mind. Poetry is neglected. We have POP Idol, and people don't take enough time to listen to words.
Jipsieyes... I've got to ask: really? You don't usually ear Leonard Cohen in USA? I'm Portuguese and I ear it all the time, even on radio. 39 years without "Suzanne"! Not even knowing the singer... I guess we got to search for better music by our own ways. It doesn't come if we don't look for it. Anyway... amazing story and better later than never. Greetings from Portugal....
@theMoonScar Again, I was just a regular kid growing up in the 70's/80's and was heavily into rock music (KISS, Def Leppard, Springsteen, Guns n Roses, etc.), and didn't listen much to radio after MTV came around (sad confession). I didn't LOOK for the song I heard that night because I was, frankly, too young to be 'interested' (even had I remembered to look for it). But I certainly REMEMBERED it, and the last time I heard it, when I found it, and heard/saw it here.
This really is my favorite song in the whole world!
I have the Isle of white concert of the Who in 1970, and it's funny to see the same audience here! I wish I was born in the 1950's so I could've been there then... Unfortunately everything has changed so much....But 2010 is nice too:)
First time I've ever heard Leonard Cohen. I'm 47, so I have a lot of catching up to do. You Tube is great for discovering great artists you don't hear on the radio daily.
I was a student working on the IOW when this concert took place. I was too young then to know what I know about life now...it is all there in his songs...poet, philosopher, musician, and most humble of men, I love him with a passion.i could weep....i was serving ice creams!!lol!
I got to WATCH this concert (Isle of Wight, 1970) on PBS several weeks ago!! I was in BLISS, sheer bliss... I can't believe, what with my long-time-love of Mason Proffit, Jorma Kaukonen, Dylan, Hoyt Axton, even Lou Reed, etc. that I never 'investigated' any of Cohen's material when I was younger... It was a YouTube mistake (searching for something else) that led me here, to rediscover a song I remembered from almost 40 years ago... Our YouTube generation ROCKS...
I was there, he was wonderful, it was four in the morning ( the end of july) and im writing this now just to say he got better. I have watched leonard perform this live for 40 years, and I have to say the last time I saw him at the first concert on his world tour of 2009 was the best yet. fan forever.
I was there, he was wonderful, it was four in the morning ( the end of july) and im writing this now just to say he got better. I have watched leonard perform this live for 40 years, and I have to say the last time I saw him at the first concert on his world tour of 2009 was the best yet. fan forever.
@zeldagoblin I love the MAN at 1:04 WOW and I don't think that chick is on drugs. I've done drugs & seen people on drugs from them days and she's just high on Leonard.
unbelievably beautiful...I was not yet born then ....found these records in my Mother's collection ...and I fell in love with LC's songs and voice ..and still am deeply touched by his words, his compositions, the meaning of his songs and the depth of his voice ...I think he's ageing so beautifully
wow you are very open minded. i was saying to my son (18) recently that there is nothing u need 2 know about life that isn't in a leonard cohen song, said beautifully
I've been a fan of Cohens since I first heard 'Bird on a Wire' way back lol. I was at this weekender and it was totally brilliant even tho we slept most the way through the Hendrix gig, yeh well it had been a long and heavy weekend. ;) :)
Leonard Cohen is, like i've always suspected, a feminist. hehe. what a fantastic song. and it's so good to hear him sing it when it was still relatively fresh in his mind :)
i'm from toronto and i went to montreal on the bus as a sort of pilgrimage when i was 15, don't think he was there, but it meant everything to be closer to him
I remember hearing this on the car radio, in the middle of the night, somewhere in Louisiana; everyone was asleep except for me & Dad, on a long, one-way drive from California to Mississippi. 1970.
I found this by MISTAKE... and all I can say is... WOW.
I have not heard this song since that night, 39 years ago. Never knew the name, the singer. Until now.
Funny, isn't it. How music can touch us so profoundly, disappear for almost a lifetime, then return to take us 'there' all over again... :-)
@fingling8 : Thank you. True life is stranger (and usually more wonderful) than fiction; I enjoyed sharing the memory because watching this clip brought it all back to me, vividly, for the first time in almost 40 years... it was a profound experience to hear it again, but to SEE it performed: exquisite!
@jipsieyes It seems next to impossible that you haven't heard this song in 39 years. Or even Cohen. Song and him were continously in all media for half the century. Where have you been? I admire that.
@rauhfell In 1970 I was around 10, was big into horses and 4H, best friends, school. Top 40 am radio ruled my world for many years. After that, the 80's-on were of MTV, clubbing, working for a living, marriage, kids... I don't know WHY I never heard it (the song) again; I just didn't.
I'd heard OF 'Cohen', but never made the connection. It was not like I was old enough to hear it once and go 'I HAVE to find out who sang that song'.
@jipsieyes That is one of the most beautiful and touching descriptions of music I have ever heard. May I use it on my radio program, The Deep End With Nick Michaels? I will gladly credit you as the source. My program is exactly about your quote.
I was actually looking for "I Love You, Suzanne" by LOU REED, but noticed other vids that came up, including this one. The name sounded vaguely familiar (Leonard Cohen) so I checked it out. And I was in for a shock, and a major blast from the past.
I'm too honest to deceive, kareljuwet : I wear my heart on my sleeve and ramble way too long and overmuch about everything and anything that touches me.
@jipsieyes If you have an opportunity to look up the story behind this show in particular, it will give you even more light into who Leonard Cohen is and the respect he's achieved throughout the world. What a fantastic poet, philosopher, and gentleman.
Just missed this performance in 70...watching from my lonely wooden tower high in the beautiful German mountains of the wasserkuppe. And to think there are people who don't even know who he is.......when I play his music my friends say wow who is that........and I just smile
Ich habe vor 35 Jahren L.C. gehört, aber nur selten verstanden... Heute höre ich ihn (L.C.) selten, verstehe aber fast immer was er mitzuteilen hat!!!
1:04 - 1:16 makes me wish I had lived in the 70's. great time, great music, great people.
AUSROTTENY2K 2 months ago
Oh my God how old I am now! Love the song and Leonard Cohen that was awarded with the Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for 2011. Suzanne makes me always cry.
Thanks a lot Radiohades for sharing the videoand ith your kind permission I am adding it to my favorites ( maybe I alredy did it but I am so dizzy, hehehehe)
Spainiswonderful 2 months ago
HOLY CRAP, THATS MY DAD IN THE FRONT ROW AT 0:07 !
Mynameisnumber5 3 months ago 2
I wish I could of lived in the 70's :(
AUSROTTENY2K 3 months ago
OMG...so awesome!
damiensongs 7 months ago
I think he looks more like Denzel
keithneig 7 months ago
Wow, this is the first time I have ever heard Leonard Cohen! He's sort of reminds me of a very slow, Neil Diamond song--though Neil Diamond had a much better voice! But this man seems to be held in high esteem as a songwriter! Sincerely, BobbyK
bobby7771117 7 months ago
"And the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss the white-laced lips..."
yanis3 8 months ago
look at those clothes. he looks like a prophet
bookmaster89 9 months ago
@bookmaster89 his pjs hahah
tomyt03 7 months ago
I did copius amounts of weed with this gentleman in his warehouse apartment ...loooks like Dustin Hoffman in person....
freddygoldstein 9 months ago
This song is so beautiful. I love the Cohen! Totally genius, If you like this song, you should check out ''Adiina'' by Ali Murray, or anything by Ali Murray for that matter. Cohen and Murray are my 2 favourite songwriters.Musically very different, but they both make me cry...
jenniferjjjx 10 months ago
did plan b use this for his song suzanne?
radoja123 10 months ago
I was at this festival
1stBigCol 11 months ago
You guys all know this well, gotta throw it up again, such a perfect song!
stanleysoldman 11 months ago
I first heard this song in 69' it was one of my sister Susans favourite songs, she was murdered 16 years ago and I miss her coz I loved her, when I hear this song I think of her, I love you Sue and miss you. X
peedutt 1 year ago 5
what happened to the rest of the song??
kerrgal 1 year ago
what happened to the rest of the song??
kerrgal 1 year ago
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what a voice,
then they say there is no God!
jamsheed1979 1 year ago
jeez... this was 40 fucking years ago. 40 years. and still epic
ting280 1 year ago 2
simply pure . love
funk67 1 year ago
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If you love Leonard Cohen, and surrealistic symbolistic lyrics, you’d like my music too. He’s one of my two great musical heroes. I made a song called "A Winter Evening's Tale”. This is also for all of us folks facing 2011. Do check it out in my channel or check it out in the video response of this awesome video. The song references Pilgrim's Progress, bible, Alice in the wonderland, Revelations, crusades etc. It also depicts eerie classical paintings. Have a folky new year!
darcon81 1 year ago
me encantaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa todo los artistas
Heavygirl15 1 year ago
I need more Leonard
Caligula138 1 year ago
Il est intemporel et universel! Ses chansons nous accompagnent tout au long de notre vie
Merci, monsieur Cohen, continuez!
SylvieEvin 1 year ago
He took himself way too seriously back then. I'm glad he has lightened up a bit since then.
kermit639 1 year ago
My name is Suzanne and when I heard this 2day on the radio it made me smile :D
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kumudakamal 1 year ago
thanks.
markps78 1 year ago
I have just returned from a L.C concert in Perth Western Australia...........his voice is beautiful........liquid chocolate, silk and a little gravel.
crazymayful 1 year ago
Qué hermosa canción!!!
naditales 1 year ago
I hope the idiots who disliked this are beheaded.
AUSROTTENY2K 1 year ago
I am surfer and fist heard Leonard on a flight to Hawaii not that long ago, I was going through music a friend have given me and gave Mr Cohen a spin.. Like all great music I wasn't sure about it at first but soon enough i couldn't get these incredible songs out of my head.. The line 'Jesus was a sailor at the time he walked on water' often came to me while i was surfing sunset point.. usually around the time a massive set wave came and the horizon disappeared..
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Pauljacksonish 1 year ago 3
Merci, Mr Leonard Cohen pour vos belles chansons si réalistes
gotamnn1 1 year ago
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The best artist ever.
whiteman703 1 year ago
Great song.
danpedro50 1 year ago
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Steelrigg 1 year ago 2
Where have the last 40 years gone? it seems just like yesterday, 40 years, not days, not weeks, but years. I feel no different, yes my daughter's speak a slightly different language to me, I have began to envy young people, was Hendrix better than cold play? you better believe it!! I take just one comfort, one day 45 years down the line, one of the youth's I am talking about now will be sitting writing the same words that I write now. and so the wheel of life moves on.....
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surfguy87 3 months ago
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@Steelrigg .......in 45 years I may even think of your comment, because I know I'll be thinking your words.
surfguy87 3 months ago
Genius. What a guy & what a life.
lincliff1 1 year ago
WOW! I was there & sang along with all those around me <3
shemanic1 1 year ago
Sasha Yatchenko is the "Leonard Cohen" of our time. She is 15 and writing amazing songs.
fps44 1 year ago
cobardesinlimites 1 year ago
the faces in the crowd
cbgbomfugrip2006 1 year ago 2
<3 One year i'd've liked to have been alive for.
cofpaddy 1 year ago
perfect stoner music
jimromerulez 1 year ago
I just discovered Leonard Cohen and I am 43 and I am very into older music. Somehow I missed him until now....Excellent poet and seems to hit his stride in his later work..
mbolthouse 1 year ago 2
Cant even put into words how this song makes me feel........one of my dads favourites and now one of mine!
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muy bello, me hace sonar!!!
piernascaminando 1 year ago
muy bello, me hace sonar!!!
piernascaminando 1 year ago
i could die right now, completely satisfied.
iluvsupersmashbros 1 year ago
has made me cry for so many years......
debz1105 1 year ago 2
brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hagcom 1 year ago
i remember being in the towers i remember being your prisoner. broken by the seas and oceans. to the river and you find its your own light.
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
Choen looks at this venue like a creepy blotter .. love it
clickswitchh 1 year ago
Yes i agree, i always thought dustin and lenny were two peas in a pod
louelladevlille 1 year ago
Dustin hoffman
urmahma 1 year ago
What a wonderful memory, I was there .... awww to go back in time :(
Dappycow 1 year ago
"...only drowning men could see him..." Man, what I wouldn't give to write lyrics like that.
thanksforthemusic 1 year ago
indelible !
igalflint 1 year ago
That is such a beautiful memory! xxx
magicplum 1 year ago
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22felicidadesempre 1 year ago
This has been 'my' song since I first heard it on the jukebox in the Men's Bar of the Students Union at Newcastle University in 1968ish, the first year women were allowed in the Men's Bar! Later I lived in a house by a river, and Cohen's songs have been with me ever since.
susanob 1 year ago
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@susanob you must be a nice person?!
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@susanob you must be a nice person?!
22felicidadesempre 1 year ago
there you go ms. winternitz.
yobobbyc37 1 year ago
pelle d'oca ogni volta che la riascolto oggi non ci sono più canzoni di questo livello
bookshp 1 year ago
bella melodia, belle parole e bella voce
chiara20101 1 year ago
Leonard Cohen is without a doubt the greatest poet ever,and his music is timeless.I've heard him discribed as Canada's Bob Dylan,you can't compare him to Dylan. He is Leonard Cohan, a true legend.
STRATCAT101 1 year ago
still gives me chills after all the years...
xinloigi 1 year ago
And to think how far these baby boomers have come! Wall Street greed destroying the world's economy, massive unemployment, environmental chaos. Thanx boomers. Oh I know someone (a boomer) will retort by blaming someone else but there are very few people left on this earth older than the boomers. Guess you'll have to blame us young people.
1gdfjf 1 year ago
@1gdfjf You're pretty much right about boomers, but don't confuse the '60s idealism typified by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan with the '80s-and-later boomer greed and every-man-for-himself capitalism set in motion by Ronald Reagan.
davehshs 6 months ago
why is this vid incomplete? starts in the middle ... :(
dadautube 1 year ago
Love this song!
suzyqzy321 1 year ago
dustin hoffman should play him in a movie.
tommygoodkin 1 year ago 73
@tommygoodkin hes waaay to old now
Sublime99skill 1 year ago
@tommygoodkin or adam sandler ;)
OurRootsGoDeep 1 year ago
@tommygoodkin - I'd rather see Bill Murray do him.
BayviewFinch 1 year ago
@tommygoodkin David Schwimmer!
Malex242 1 year ago
@tommygoodkin = I love that suggestion!
CaledoniaJeanne 1 year ago
@tommygoodkin you absolute right the perfect actor for Cohen..!!!
clauzius 1 year ago
,,I thought this was Dustin Hoffman.
PupuTheClown 1 year ago
@tommygoodkin hopefully he would have the self respect to deny such an opportunity to be degraded an misrepresented my some dickhead with enough money to make a movie about him
thedudemanwithnothin 10 months ago
@tommygoodkin al pacino looks more like him tho
zeldagoblin 9 months ago
@tommygoodkin NOBODY should have to be submitted to such a fate!!!!
RedVynil 8 months ago
If I'd use one word to describe this - beautiful. Truly beautiful.
rockit353 1 year ago
@tantepie True -I've followed Len since I was young man of 19 - but let us too recall Bobby Dylan and John Prine
shaptula4 1 year ago
I heard this on an Airliner coming back from Germany to my wife, susan, pregnant with our first born. It took me years to find out who did it, Nick Cave doe a good version of it too.
1sgtmikestg 1 year ago
I was there ... and he played very late/in the early hours... and he was truly moving and, more surprisingly ,rocking a truly unforgetable experience ... I had gone to see hendrix but cohen just blew me away ....
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The most depressing singer of pretentious dirges on the planet. unlistenable....
Baskerville22 1 year ago
@Baskerville22 - oh, you're just jealous he's Canadian, and there are tons of great artists Canada has given the world - Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Band, Gordon Lightfoot - while Australia has given us Olivia Newton John.
ApocalypsePlough 1 year ago
@ApocalypsePlough Also we have Frank Marino(Mahogany Rush), Pat Travers, Rush,The Tragically hip,Kim Mitchell (Max Webster)and Triumph are just a few more
examples of Canadian talent.
STRATCAT101 1 year ago
@Baskerville22 Ha!
bewaver 1 year ago
well said.
somethingfreeforme 1 year ago
Oh my where has my life gone?... all seems so long ago now.
Steelrigg 1 year ago
Jipsieyes... Ouvi a musica Suzanne na casa de um amigo ele tinha o DVD do show da Isle of Wight 1970. O interessante foi como a aquela musica poetica me tocou. Uma unica audição e eu ja estava facinado em querer ouvir de novo.
Algumas semanas depois me deu uma enorme vontade de ouvir a musica Suzanne denovo. O problema foi que eu perdi contato com esse amigo, e fiquei sem saber quem era o cantor.
OO95684 1 year ago
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Jipsieyes ... Suzanne heard the music in the house of a friend he had the DVD of the show's Isle of Wight in 1970. The interesting thing was how that song touched me poetic. A single hearing and I was already in Fascinated want to hear again.
A few weeks later gave me a huge desire to hear the music again Suzanne. The problem was that I lost contact with that friend, and I did not know who was the singer.
OO95684 1 year ago
Jipsieyes ... Suzanne heard the music in the house of a friend he had the DVD of the show's Isle of Wight in 1970. The interesting thing was how that song touched me poetic. A single hearing and I was already in Fascinated want to hear again.
A few weeks later gave me a huge desire to hear the music again Suzanne. The problem was that I lost contact with that friend, and I did not know who was the singer.
OO95684 1 year ago
Jipsieyes ... Suzanne heard the music in the house of a friend he had the DVD of the show's Isle of Wight in 1970. The interesting thing was how that song touched me poetic. A single hearing and I was already in Fascinated want to hear again.
A few weeks later gave me a huge desire to hear the music again Suzanne. The problem was that I lost contact with that friend, and I did not know who was the singer.
OO95684 1 year ago
the woman at 1:17 makes a beautiful shot, the mist from her mouth, her smiling mouth and eyes and Leonard Cohen playing in the background. genuinely happy to be there, ahhh, i wish i was born 40 years earlier
twilliams232 1 year ago
love this~thankyou
iamearthbornami 1 year ago
I was there at the "Isle of Wight" 1970, a chaotic festival, but an experience never to be forgotten. Cohen played on the last night, well after midnight I think, and I especially remember "famous Blue Raincoat" with the line "It's four in the morning" - because it almost was! take the TIME to sit and LISTEN to great lyrics of Cohen and others, it will reward you, it will do things to your mind. Poetry is neglected. We have POP Idol, and people don't take enough time to listen to words.
PeterOzanne 1 year ago
i want to go to Leonard Cohen's concert！
He've been visited Japan (my country) for several times,
but he is still not.
YoungBelaLugosi 1 year ago
x B x
tirtytreeandaturdtoo 1 year ago
Jipsieyes... I've got to ask: really? You don't usually ear Leonard Cohen in USA? I'm Portuguese and I ear it all the time, even on radio. 39 years without "Suzanne"! Not even knowing the singer... I guess we got to search for better music by our own ways. It doesn't come if we don't look for it. Anyway... amazing story and better later than never. Greetings from Portugal....
theMoonScar 1 year ago
@theMoonScar Again, I was just a regular kid growing up in the 70's/80's and was heavily into rock music (KISS, Def Leppard, Springsteen, Guns n Roses, etc.), and didn't listen much to radio after MTV came around (sad confession). I didn't LOOK for the song I heard that night because I was, frankly, too young to be 'interested' (even had I remembered to look for it). But I certainly REMEMBERED it, and the last time I heard it, when I found it, and heard/saw it here.
That make better sense? ;-)
jipsieyes 1 year ago
This really is my favorite song in the whole world!
I have the Isle of white concert of the Who in 1970, and it's funny to see the same audience here! I wish I was born in the 1950's so I could've been there then... Unfortunately everything has changed so much....But 2010 is nice too:)
Australia19911509 1 year ago
This is the first song I ever heard of his...I have been in love with him ever since.
snsoap 1 year ago
Cohen also wrote the Song of Bernadette
patfealy 1 year ago
God's blessing to me, touching, gently probing, like rain on my soul.
charlajoy1 1 year ago
First time I've ever heard Leonard Cohen. I'm 47, so I have a lot of catching up to do. You Tube is great for discovering great artists you don't hear on the radio daily.
madcaps1 1 year ago
Woooooow. I've only liked him for about a year now, this and hallelujah were the ones that got me hooked!. He looked so young then!
potophan2006 1 year ago
I was a student working on the IOW when this concert took place. I was too young then to know what I know about life now...it is all there in his songs...poet, philosopher, musician, and most humble of men, I love him with a passion.i could weep....i was serving ice creams!!lol!
sweetgypsywife 1 year ago
I got to WATCH this concert (Isle of Wight, 1970) on PBS several weeks ago!! I was in BLISS, sheer bliss... I can't believe, what with my long-time-love of Mason Proffit, Jorma Kaukonen, Dylan, Hoyt Axton, even Lou Reed, etc. that I never 'investigated' any of Cohen's material when I was younger... It was a YouTube mistake (searching for something else) that led me here, to rediscover a song I remembered from almost 40 years ago... Our YouTube generation ROCKS...
jipsieyes 1 year ago 4
he is so young here, reminds me of summers in Montreal so many years ago
annedelier 1 year ago
He' s so young here.
annedelier 1 year ago
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I was there, he was wonderful, it was four in the morning ( the end of july) and im writing this now just to say he got better. I have watched leonard perform this live for 40 years, and I have to say the last time I saw him at the first concert on his world tour of 2009 was the best yet. fan forever.
suepheles 1 year ago
I was there, he was wonderful, it was four in the morning ( the end of july) and im writing this now just to say he got better. I have watched leonard perform this live for 40 years, and I have to say the last time I saw him at the first concert on his world tour of 2009 was the best yet. fan forever.
suepheles 1 year ago
1:16 I love that woman
zeldagoblin 1 year ago
Hahahahaha i was quick cheking the comment while i see her i was like, i did'nt see a girl smile like that
Maybe we don,t got the drug to :P
wakenno9111 1 year ago
@zeldagoblin I love the MAN at 1:04 WOW and I don't think that chick is on drugs. I've done drugs & seen people on drugs from them days and she's just high on Leonard.
norealname0 1 year ago
@norealname0 I totally agree, drugs aren't needed when you have this guy! Yeah th 1:04 guy looks ace =) I would so love to see LC live!
zeldagoblin 1 year ago
Es lo que a Kurt Cobain le gustaba
maluleche 1 year ago
His body is sort of like Mick Mars. Maybe it is a cousin thing?
iriswigle 1 year ago
this guy had to have inspired serge gainsbourg.
wreckords 1 year ago
it's funny to look at him that young ...but he's himself..still now, intensity and truthfullness of feelings unchanged !
Thank you LC for being always your own self to our major enjoyment :)
soledemina1 1 year ago
love this song
AnnaValenn 1 year ago
vercingentorix in the audience
kindermaus 1 year ago
amazing song... he has something of dustin hoffman in this video, sometimes :)
adri2771 1 year ago
it's beautiful but the 1st verse is missing!!
lililolalilia 1 year ago
Beautiful song
JerusalemHolyLand 1 year ago
como se afea..
con lo bonito q era, cuando era un niño..
tan,,,,elevado,,,tan,,sútil..tan delicado..
tan,,,él..
nomecogereisvivo 1 year ago
y como,,,,,esta feo decirlo..
y,,,no es correcto,,,
pero,,lo pienso...
como se rebaja...
nomecogereisvivo 1 year ago
cuando eres una persona
profunda.........tu amor.
es profundo......es una corriente subterranea....
una energia,,,,q no se destruye,,,,
ni siquiera,,,,en las manos del desructor...n1.
que te aprieta,,,,,,con sus manos,,para q no puedas,,,respirar,,,,y mueras,,,y,,te sumerges
cogiendo aire,,,lo llevas todo,,dentro...
todo,,,y su esencia,,,su perfume,,,,su yo,,
lo llevas,,,contigo,,,,,,,y,,,te das la vuelta.
porq no quieres ver,,,como destruye...
nomecogereisvivo 1 year ago
unbelievably beautiful...I was not yet born then ....found these records in my Mother's collection ...and I fell in love with LC's songs and voice ..and still am deeply touched by his words, his compositions, the meaning of his songs and the depth of his voice ...I think he's ageing so beautifully
soledemina1 1 year ago 3
wow you are very open minded. i was saying to my son (18) recently that there is nothing u need 2 know about life that isn't in a leonard cohen song, said beautifully
andy191266 1 year ago
I've been a fan of Cohens since I first heard 'Bird on a Wire' way back lol. I was at this weekender and it was totally brilliant even tho we slept most the way through the Hendrix gig, yeh well it had been a long and heavy weekend. ;) :)
voilaitsme 1 year ago
the lyrics and his voice make my heart melt
ProdanProductions 2 years ago 5
This is so beautiful that it can't even be called beautiful it is more then that and better then that too
Leadhead444 2 years ago 23
me debes
tanto amor...
todasmodianytutmbn 2 years ago
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Thank you Mr Leonard Cohen for the song from 1979 it is part of my life.......
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darriastudio 2 years ago
Me and my friend made a version of Cohen's 'One of us Cannot be wrong'. We'd love you to hear it : ). It's posted on this account x
JosephAndDavid 2 years ago
una delle più belle voci di tutti i tempi
TheFrancona 2 years ago
wonderful! thank you tamara :)
MrBuckwilliam 2 years ago 2
Leonard Cohen is, like i've always suspected, a feminist. hehe. what a fantastic song. and it's so good to hear him sing it when it was still relatively fresh in his mind :)
vegantrooper 2 years ago 4
maria was there at the back 39 years ago wonderful
bravium34 2 years ago
i'm from toronto and i went to montreal on the bus as a sort of pilgrimage when i was 15, don't think he was there, but it meant everything to be closer to him
cbgbomfugrip2006 2 years ago 6
I remember hearing this on the car radio, in the middle of the night, somewhere in Louisiana; everyone was asleep except for me & Dad, on a long, one-way drive from California to Mississippi. 1970.
I found this by MISTAKE... and all I can say is... WOW.
I have not heard this song since that night, 39 years ago. Never knew the name, the singer. Until now.
Funny, isn't it. How music can touch us so profoundly, disappear for almost a lifetime, then return to take us 'there' all over again... :-)
jipsieyes 2 years ago 122
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vegasunderwater 2 years ago
That's a nice litte story--the car, the night, the unknown singer from the back seat...
fingling8 2 years ago
@fingling8 : Thank you. True life is stranger (and usually more wonderful) than fiction; I enjoyed sharing the memory because watching this clip brought it all back to me, vividly, for the first time in almost 40 years... it was a profound experience to hear it again, but to SEE it performed: exquisite!
jipsieyes 2 years ago
omygod...
mrpantsonfire 1 year ago 3
@jipsieyes It seems next to impossible that you haven't heard this song in 39 years. Or even Cohen. Song and him were continously in all media for half the century. Where have you been? I admire that.
rauhfell 1 year ago
@rauhfell In 1970 I was around 10, was big into horses and 4H, best friends, school. Top 40 am radio ruled my world for many years. After that, the 80's-on were of MTV, clubbing, working for a living, marriage, kids... I don't know WHY I never heard it (the song) again; I just didn't.
I'd heard OF 'Cohen', but never made the connection. It was not like I was old enough to hear it once and go 'I HAVE to find out who sang that song'.
But I remember it. Distinctly. Rediscovered. ;-)
jipsieyes 1 year ago 3
@jipsieyes beatiful history...
Stulticiacruz 1 year ago
what poetry is
LeondraL 1 year ago 2
@jipsieyes yes man, like Proust and the madeleine and tea
kindermaus 1 year ago
@jipsieyes That is one of the most beautiful and touching descriptions of music I have ever heard. May I use it on my radio program, The Deep End With Nick Michaels? I will gladly credit you as the source. My program is exactly about your quote.
nickhardship 1 year ago
@nickhardship Thank you, Nick. :-) That was very sweet. Check your YouTube mail....
jipsieyes 1 year ago
@jipsieyes Your story gave me chills!
routleyd3930 1 year ago
@jipsieyes
and creating a big heebie-jeebies
61lamon 1 year ago
@jipsieyes What a lovely memory!
yumyummoany 1 year ago
@jipsieyes He knew...
bewaver 1 year ago
@jipsieyes
sure it was a mistake? :D
kareljuwet 1 year ago
@kareljuwet
You doubt me? lol...
I was actually looking for "I Love You, Suzanne" by LOU REED, but noticed other vids that came up, including this one. The name sounded vaguely familiar (Leonard Cohen) so I checked it out. And I was in for a shock, and a major blast from the past.
I'm too honest to deceive, kareljuwet : I wear my heart on my sleeve and ramble way too long and overmuch about everything and anything that touches me.
It's a curse, I know. ;-)
jipsieyes 1 year ago 14
@jipsieyes lol I think I love you :-)
zeldagoblin 1 year ago 2
@jipsieyes If you have an opportunity to look up the story behind this show in particular, it will give you even more light into who Leonard Cohen is and the respect he's achieved throughout the world. What a fantastic poet, philosopher, and gentleman.
lkidner 7 months ago
Just missed this performance in 70...watching from my lonely wooden tower high in the beautiful German mountains of the wasserkuppe. And to think there are people who don't even know who he is.......when I play his music my friends say wow who is that........and I just smile
myrtlebeach1039 2 years ago 3
this is awesome he was best with long hair
sk8freak3000 2 years ago 4
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning...
This song lives inside me ever since I heard it for the first time back in 60 something.
carlosbashuertas 2 years ago 2
Ich habe vor 35 Jahren L.C. gehört, aber nur selten verstanden... Heute höre ich ihn (L.C.) selten, verstehe aber fast immer was er mitzuteilen hat!!!
ZappaGolf 2 years ago
He spent a long time watching...from his lonely wooden tower....wow :)
somaditya75 2 years ago 5
Alle lauschen ganz verzaubert was Leonhard für eine schöne Geschichte erzählt, ich wünschte ich könnte es verstehen!
Hay alguien por ahi que pudiera poner los subtitulos?
Estuviera muy agradecida
1tulipan1 2 years ago
maze, tot i lè? Mo speak in dialect che le mei so che tu sai you said
viaggiare111 2 years ago
forsaken almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
glitchesandglitter 2 years ago
Leonard Cohen is a great Canadian artist!
oldieschick6 2 years ago