Murray Lerner's mesmerizing docu closely chronicles Leonard Cohen's set at the Isle of Wight. At 4 a.m. on the fifth and final night of the troubled 1970 Isle of Wight concert, the not-yet-legendary ...

(JTA) — Leonard Cohen’s momentous trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers in the wake of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series. “Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in ...

Leonard Cohen was a god among musicians – a holy man, spouting prayers in the form of lyrics and melodies, dripping with hot sex and dark magic. He found a doctrine in the shadows his verses cast, his ...

There are many who came late to Cohen, the man lampooned in the 1970s and ‘80s as “Laughing Lenny” and “Captain Mandrax”. I was in my early teens when I first knowingly heard him, and I was entranced.

In the introduction to “Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories: The Early Years,” Michael Posner explains that he first proposed the idea of an oral biography to the singer and poet in 2007. It would be “a ...

Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died, as announced on Cohen’s Facebook page. “It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has ...

This enthralling documentary captures singer-poet Leonard Cohen's memorable set at the 1970 Isle of Wight music festival. Cohen reads his poetry and performs many of his most-famous songs, including ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

This is the latest surprise artifact of master music documentary maker Murray Lerner’s assignment to film the violent, politicized 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival. Culled from the same mass of ...

Forty summers ago on a windswept island just off England's southern coastline, a young Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist named Leonard Cohen delivered the performance of a lifetime.