RELEASED 19.10.2009
1. Introduction 2. Bird On The Wire 3. Intro to So Long, Marianne 4. So Long, Marianne 5. Intro: "Let's renew ourselves now..." 6. You Know Who I Am 7. Intro to Poems 8. Lady Midnight 9. They Locked Up A Man (poem)/A Person Who Eats Meat/Intro 10. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong 11. The Stranger Song 12. Tonight Will Be Fine 13. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye 14. Diamonds In The Mine 15. Suzanne 16. Sing Another Song, Boys 17. The Partisan
Product Description Nearly 40 summers ago on August 31, 1970, 35-year-old Leonard Cohen was awakened at 2 a.m. from a nap in his trailer and brought onstage to perform with his band at the third annual Isle Of Wight music festival. The audience of 600,000 was in a fiery and frenzied mood, after turning the festival into a political arena, trampling the fences, setting fire to structures and equipment - and stoked by the most incendiary performance of Jimi Hendrix's career. As Cohen followed Hendrix's set, onlookers and (fellow festival headliners) Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins and others stood sidestage in awe as the Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist quietly tamed the crowd. Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner (From Mao To Mozart, Festival, Message To Love), perfectly captured Cohen's performance. Likewise, Columbia Records staff A&R producer Teo Macero did a brilliant job of supervising the live audio recording.
Introduction Intro to So Long, Marianne Intro: 'Let's renew ourselves now...' Intro to Poems They Locked Up A Man (poem)/A Person Who Eats Meat/Intro The Stranger Song Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye Suzanne The Partisan Seems So Long Ago, Nancy Bird On The Wire So Long, Marianne You Know Who I Am Lady Midnight One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong Tonight Will Be Fine Diamonds In The Mine Sing Another Song, Boys Famous Blue Raincoat
Bonus DVD: Intro: Diamonds In The Mine “It’s A Large Nation” One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong “They’ve Surrounded The Island” Sing Another Song Boys Suzanne The Partisan Famous Blue Raincoat Bird On The Wire Tonight Will Be Fine Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye Judy Collins introduces Suzanne Joan Baez- confronting festival violence Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
This CD/DVD package contains the new, beautiful film documentary by Lerner featuring interviews with fellow festival performers, as well as Cohen's full performance on CD. All tracks are previously unreleased (sans bits of "Suzanne" which were featured in the documentary Message to Love, also by Lerner). Included are live versions of classic songs from the first two Leonard Cohen LPs: "So Long, Marianne," "The Stranger Song," "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," "Suzanne," "Bird On The Wire," "You Know Who I Am," and "The Partisan" as well as spoken word and poetry.