Leonard Cohen - Suzanne video free download


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Perhaps his most memorable song from Canadian poet/songwriter & performer Leonard Cohen. Cohen specified, notably in a BBC interview, that the song was about encountering Suzanne Verdal, the then wife of sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, in a Montreal setting. Indeed, many lines describe different elements of the city, including its river (the Saint Lawrence) and a little chapel near the harbour, called Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (literally Our Lady of Good Help), which sits on the side of the harbour that faces the rising sun in the morning, as it is described in the song.

Suzanne Verdal was interviewed by CBC News's The National in 2006 about the song. Verdal claims that she and Cohen never had sexual relations, contrary to what some interpretations of the song suggest. Cohen himself stated in a 1994 BBC interview that he only imagined having sex with her, as there was neither the opportunity nor inclination to actually go through with it. She says she has met Cohen twice since the song's initial popularity; once after a concert Cohen performed in the 1970s and once in passing in the 1990s when she danced for him, but Cohen did not speak to her (and possibly did not recognise her).

In any case, its lyrics first appeared as the poem "Suzanne Takes You Down" in Cohen's 1966 book of poetry Parasites of Heaven, admittedly because of lack of new material (lyrics to a few other songs from his subsequent 1967 debut album were also printed in the book).

Comments

8 years ago

99liebe

... great good menories ~ Leonard Cohen ♥♥♥

8 years ago

kinky won

it is a hauntingly lovely tune, thank you for posting

8 years ago

rockingphil58 .

Leonard Cohen just has to be one of the greatest song writers to have ever lived .

8 years ago

Bruce Lee

Awesome

8 years ago

54markl

Radical, dude.

8 years ago

Luis Tej

de Antología poética del rock

8 years ago

lisa f

always makes me cry~~~~~~

8 years ago

uwe frank

ich fand diesen Song als Kind schon schön,heute bin ich 49 Jahre alt,und höre ihn immer noch gerne.Ein super toller Song.

8 years ago

Tina Schuth

Dieses interessante Video habe ich auf YouTube gefunden:

8 years ago

Rosalie Parker

Pleasant melancholy.

8 years ago

Paul Wallace

every time i hear leonard cohen i want to neck myself.

8 years ago

jorge rodrigues

Perhaps one of the most memorable songs from Canadian poet/songwriter & performer Leonard Cohen. Cohen specified, notably in a BBC interview, that the song was about encountering Suzanne Verdal, the then wife of sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, in a Montreal setting. Indeed, many lines describe different elements of the city, including its river (the Saint Lawrence) and a little chapel near the harbour, called Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (literally Our Lady of Good Help), which sits on the side of the harbour that faces the rising sun in the morning, as it is described in the song.

8 years ago

John Wiseman

For A Friend Of Mine 

9 years ago

ChudyseuszTV

W Paryżu najlepsze kasztany są na placu Pigalle""Stawka większa niż życie"; "Zuzanna lubi je tylko jesienią" a kontrodzewem: "Przesyła Ci świeżą partię".

9 years ago

Carmen López

And you want to travel with herAnd you want to travel blindAnd you know that you can trust herFor she's touched your perfect body with her mind...

9 years ago

Philippe Orage

Chanson d'amour. 

9 years ago

Gabriele Bloch

Zum Dahinschmelzen ... wunderschön ... ich träume...von IHM 

9 years ago

Gabriele Bloch

Wunderbar !!!

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