VIDEO: Iraqi war victim sings 'Imagine'
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POETRY: Victor Hugo on Bashar al-Assad
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SONGS: Leonard Cohen -- 'Everybody Knows' & 'the answer to the mysteries'
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The link below to a clip of the 2008 concert performance in London of "Everybody Knows" shows a 73-year-old Leonard Cohen sporting a rakishly tilted black fedora singing with a rare courtliness in a trademark gravelly voice that has been compared to a velvet garrote or the warm feeling that comes from drinking good whisky.[1] -- Cohen and Sharon Robinson wrote this dark prophetic anthem of the transition to the post-globalization market-state in the era of AIDS toward the end of the Reagan era. -- "Everybody Knows" was first released as the third track on Cohen's 1988 "I'm Your Man" album. -- Also posted below: a clip of his performance at the same concert of "Tower of Song," at the end of which he revealed "the answer to the mysteries" at "the very core of things."[2] ...