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Track Listing
1. Dance Me To The End of Love
2. Future, The
3. Ain't No Cure For Love
4. Bird On The Wire
5. Everybody Knows
6. In My Secret Life
7. Who By Fire
8. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
9. Anthem
10. Introduction
11. Tower Of Song
12. Suzanne
13. Gypsy's Wife, The
DISC 2:
1. Boogie Street - (featuring Sharon Robinson)
2. Hallelujah
3. Democracy
4. I'm Your Man
5. Recitation - (featuring Neil Larsen)
6. Take This Waltz
7. So Long, Marianne
8. First We Take Manhattan
9. Sisters Of Mercy
10. If It Be Your Will - (with The Webb Sisters)
11. Closing Time
12. I Tried To Leave You
13. Wither Thou Goest
Album Notes
Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar, keyboard); Bob Metzger (guitar, pedal steel guitar); Charles Webb (guitar, background vocals); Javier Mas (12-string guitar, bandurria, lute, archlute); Hattie Webb (harp, background vocals); Dino Soldo (harmonica, winds, keyboard, background vocals); Neil Larsen (keyboards); Roscoe Beck (upright bass, electric bass, background vocals); Rafael Gayol (drums, percussion); Sharon Robinson (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Michael Brauer; Peter Asher.
Audio Remasterer: Bob Ludwig.
Recording information: The O2 Arena, London; O2 Arena, London England.
After taking a decade-and-a-half vacation from live performance, septuagenarian singer/songwriter/saint Leonard Cohen returned to the stage in 2008 for a European tour. During his absence, his popularity had grown to such a degree that his London concert took place at the city's O2 Arena. With the gathered masses sounding suitably enraptured, Cohen can be heard delivering a long program that serves as both career summary and mission reiteration on this double-length live album (FYI, there's also a DVD companion release).
Amazingly, Cohen sounds even more vital and intense than the last time he strode the boards, back in the mid-'90s. For all the high-powered cover versions over the years, his cavernously deep voice remains the most effective instrument for delivering his poetic incantations, looming large over a subtle, sympathetic band. He invests '60s classics like "Suzanne" and "Bird on a Wire" with new energy, underlining their continued relevance, while establishing a place in the canon for latter-day gems like "Anthem" and "Democracy," all the while punctuating his performance with carefully placed quips that show his trademark black humor to be in full effect.
Industry Reviews
[T]hese 26 tunes, delivered in his steady rumbling baritone, may have never sounded better, certainly not in one place on one special night.
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