,,It`s a great honour to play for these angels born of the mud“, spricht er ehrfurchtsvoll zu seinen Jüngern, bevor er er wieder einmal in seinen Turm des Liedes (,,Tower Of Song“) aufsteigt. Hinter mir fragt ein junges blondes Mädchen: „Is It God, who speaks now?“ – Ich kannte die blonde Engländerin nicht, aber ich glaube, wissend und lächelnd genickt zu haben.

„It’s a great honor to play for these angels born of the mud,“ Leonard Cohen reverently said to his disciples before he once again climbs up into his „Tower Of Song“. Behind me, a young blond girl asks: Is It God, who speaks now?” – I didn’t know the blond Englishwoman, but I think I nodded knowingly and smiling.

The Telegraph wrote: „The gravel-voiced 73-year-old songsmith’s greatest hits set, performed with wonderful graciousness under a balmy Sunday evening sun – and including ‚Hallelujah‘ with crowd-sung choruses – was sheer, unadulterated bliss.“

The performance was never professionally captured on camera, after Cohen refused to allow it to be filmed by the BBC, for reasons unknown. Some mobiles captured some moements 🙂