LEONARD COHEN 1970 Isle of Wight Live BIRD ON THE WIRE

Forty summers ago on a windswept island just off England's southern coastline, a young Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist named Leonard Cohen delivered the performance of a lifetime.
Bird on the Wire" is one of Leonard Cohen's signature songs. It was recorded 26 September 1968 in Nashville and included on his 1969 album Songs from a Room. A May 1968 recording produced by David Crosby, entitled "Like a Bird", was added to the 2007 remastered CD. Judy Collins was the first to release the song on her 1968 album Who Knows Where the Time Goes.

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[kitschgirl65]

Thank you, DGIG...and I most certainly will give it my best try!

[kitschgirl65]

Pleased that you like....

[kitschgirl65]

Oh my! AGREED!

[alcest35]

Beautiful... surpassing beautiful. Thank you for this. Nobody sings his poetry like the man himself.

[lillucy120]

His performance won't sound good to many & today's world won't understand but the man is amazing & brilliant. Before he started singing he quoted "It's a large nation but it's still weak, still very weak. It needs to get a lot stronger before it can claim a right to land." That was 1970, doesn't matter what nation, the meaning was deep. He's a very deep thinker, he thinks each word he says or sings. His bio is worth reading. “Hallelujah” is his.

[lillucy120]

Of course, there are many great singer-songwriters. It would be a small world if there wasn't. I didn't know I was comparing him to anybody. I was just giving him a compliment .... that's all. I didn't know I stuck my nose up at the radio. Could you explain what I wrote to give you that idea?

[sevenstarbox]

@lillucy120 Not true.

There are many many great singer-songwriters that you probably don't know about, carrying on the tradition.

Dan Mangan, Jenn Grant, Bonny Prince Billy, Phospherescent, Patrick Watson, Phospherescent, Timbre Timber... so, so many more. It's easy to stick your nose up at the radio, but you're pretty damn wrong.

[DaveGilmourIsGod]

This is good stuff, thank you kitschgirl, great video of Leonard. 74 years old now, and truly a legend. What a great memory from the IOW festival. This is the track to play, when the river has been run, and we depart to the great gig in the sky.

Shine on kitschgirl65, shine on... thank you.

[wojiaokatya]

wwwwwwwwwaaaaatttt bibilical references sir??? cool coll cool

[wojiaokatya]

g-d he's hot

[somefreshgarbage]

are we free? what would it mean? I say that we are...for those that say we are not, have expressed 'their' beliefs...freely...yet again there can be no scientific proof that we are not free, for if there were, it was determined to begin with, and hence is not can not be tested in any scientific way...we all but birds...

[legalizethegreen]

i like to think i could ever get this high, brilliant!

[adrianlm]

3:10 for the song

[mikecook6266]

OFF HIS HEAD