So there I was this morning, sipping coffee and listening to Leonard Cohen Live at the Beacon Theatre - recorded in February this year. I realised I'd never mentioned that it was available to download free; but when I double-checked links for posting, it turned out the free-ness was 'for a limited period only'. Sigh.
So before the e-music landscape shifts again, a couple of music-ey things: although it can no longer stream the Cohen concert, NPR Music has a fine archive of concerts, interviews & studio sessions, from Indigo Girls to Bell X1, Yo-Yo Ma to Lou Reed. Well worth exploring.
And there's Paul McCartney's concert last week at Coachella, largely a tribute to Linda on the 11th anniversary of her death. With a set-list of 35 songs, it sounds like it was quite a gig.
And from that night, here's 'Something', on ukulele (for the first half).
:-)
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Wow, eleven years!
I know... kinda flew, didn't it?
'Death Is Nothing At All' was read at her memorial; lovely to come back to it again:
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room,
I am I and you are you,
Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used,
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow,
Laugh as we always laughed,
At the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect,
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant,
It is the same that it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind,
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval,
Somewhere very near,
Just around the corner, all is well.
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