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[ Columbia / Legacy Records / 2 DVD/CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
M :- Contains offensive language.
Region 4 -- Colour -- PAL
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 & frenzied mood, after turning the festival into a political arena; trampling the fences; setting fire to structures & equipment -- and stoked by the most incendiary performance of Jimi Hendrix's career.
As Leonard hit the stage, onlookers and fellow festival headliners stood sidestage in awe as the Canadian folksinger / songwriter / poet / novelist quietly tamed the crowd...
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner perfectly captured said performance. Likewise, Columbia Records staff A&R producer Teo Macero did a brilliant job of supervising the live audio recording.
This DVD / CD package contains the new film documentary by Murray, featuring interviews with fellow festival performers, as well as Leonard'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 Murray). Included are live versions of classic songs from the first two of Leonard 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 & poetry.
Tracks: DVD: 1. Introduction 2. Bird on a 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 s 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 18. Famous Blue Raincoat 19. Seems so Long Ago, Nancy
CD: 1. Diamonds in the Mine 2. Famous Blue Raincoat 3. It's a Large Nation 4. Bird on a Wire 5. One of Us Cannot be Wrong 6. The Stranger Song 7. Tonight Will be Fine 8. They've Surrounded the Island 9. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye 10. Sing Another Song, Boys 11. Judy Collins Introduces Suzanne 12. Suzanne 13. Joan Baez on the Isle of Wight 14. The Partisan 15. Seems so Long Ago, Nancy 16. So Long, Marianne
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