Lyrics Album

Leonard Cohen – Live Songs Album

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November 19, 2024

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Full Leonard Cohen Live Songs Album Lyrics & Tracklist

Leonard Cohen used to suffer from stage fright – his biography Various Positions recalls he left the stage to play even a full song in his first major public appearance in New York, in 1967 (he eventually came back to finish the show after the audience kindly invited him back). He got over the probably finally began touring after the release of his second album Songs From a Room, and he toured Europe in 1970, ‘72 and ’74.

In 1973, filling the 3 year gap between his third and fourth albums, this collection of recording from Cohen’s two first tours (mostly from the second) was released. It features one cover (“Passing Through”) and two live new songs never recorded on studio (“Minute Prologue” and the epic “Please don’t Pass me By”); a hotel room recording otherwise unavailable and that apparently was never played live (“Queen Victoria”); an extended instrumental “Improvisation” over the theme of “You Know Who I Am” (aside from this song itself, appearing here from a different concert); and five songs off Songs from a Room – many with altered lyrics, “Seem so Long Ago, Nancy” also got its name shortened.