Seeing an icon

There have been icon's I've seen on stage over my life...Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolph Nureyev, both who seemed to defy gravity on stage. And there's been the ordinary concerts I've gone to in the past of famous and some not-so-famous people: Peter Paul and Mary, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Didi Bridgewater, Glenn Miller's band (not the original), Johnny Halliday, Dixie Band, Garou, Florent Pagny, etc., etc., etc. The list is too long to name them all.

However, listening to three hours of 78-year old Leonard Cohen on stage last night at the Montreux Jazz Festival was beyond wonderful.  

 Don't leave me. Take me to the concert, please, please, please. We resisted Scooby's appeal.

 Hallelujah, so long Marianne, Then we'll take Berlin, Suzanne,  I'm your man and he was...

Listening to three hours of 78-year old Leonard Cohen on stage last night at the Montreux Jazz Festival's packed Stravinsky Hall, which holds about 3,500 people, was truly an experience to be remembered from his introduction in fluid French to the last time he skipped off stage.

The youtube above includes the same musicians and many of the same songs to give any reader a flavour of the concert.