Posted by sigismund on April 2, 2012, at 17:14:43
In reply to Re: Sigismund: A bit of Leonard Cohen for you. » sigismund, posted by free on April 2, 2012, at 16:33:34
Well, it wasn't his very first concert here. It was the first of the last two. He had been here at least once before those.
I spoke to someone who went to that one, it must have been at least 10 years ago, perhaps 20, and this woman said he was 'a dick'.
Then he did the last two concerts, the second last of which was the most extraordinary concert I have ever been to.
It may have been partly because people felt this was their last chance to see him.
There was a real, for want of a better word, religious feel.
Just before he sang Anthem he gave a list of all the drugs, mostly uneuphoric psychiatric ones he had allegedly been taking, a very long list, and then said 'But somehow the cheerfulness kept on breaking through', and then Anthem. It was quite a moment.
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