![]() ![]() The war tour was an electric cultural moment, one that still echoes today, – but a moment that only few knew about, until now. By Andy Greene NovemMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 20: Leonard Cohen performs live for fans at Rod Laver Arena on Novemin Melbourne, Australia. Cohen’s audience knew his songs might be the last thing they heard, and those who survived never forgot the experience. Moving around the front with a guitar and a pick-up team of local musicians, Cohen dived headlong into a global crisis and met hundreds of fighting men and women at the worst moment of their lives. etina: Kanadsk hudebnk Leonard Cohen bhem koncertu v. Security staff amid the crowds at Leonard Cohen’s 1972 Tel Aviv concert (Screenshot from the documentary ‘Bird on a Wire’) And then the last concert is in Jerusalem. In October 1973 the poet and singer Leonard Cohen – 39 years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end – traveled to the Sinai desert and inserted himself into the chaos and blood of the Yom Kippur War. Franais : Leonard Cohen, durant le concert donn Genve dans le cadre de sa tourne de 2008. Variety reports that the series will be based on Matti Friedman's 2022 book Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, that featured sections of an unpublished Cohen manuscript where he details he decision to stage the concert. Leonard Cohen's famous 1973 trip to Sinai to perform for Israeli soldiers near the frontlines of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a television limited drama. ![]()
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