"I need you; I don't need you" is the push and pull of head and heart. Ultimately you make the decision which will win. I know this, if you let your head win your heart will never be the same. Wounds heal yes, but they leave scars forever tougher.
One of the great things about Cohen is that he can sing his old songs with such intensity after doing them for so many years. Really, this performance just burns....
@@MSD1301 You act like you care about her but you can’t even spell Janis’s name right. Cohen already had “clout and fame” and would not have even been looking for that. As usual, he was telling a story, a story he later regretted for identifying with Janis. “He called it the ‘sole indiscretion in [his] professional life’ “. And if you knew anything about Janis, you’d know that she probably wouldn’t have cared at all. When I think about it, they probably had a great time together, birds of a feather. Other famous people should be lucky, “while the limousines wait in the street.”
I ran away from my small town in Ireland to see Leonard live in Dublin at age 14. My big sister was sent after me. There was graffiti on an overpass: " Get out your razorblades, LC is in town!" Years later I saw him in Carnegie Hall and rushed the stage to give him a bouquet of flowers as he began this song. Next evening I was recognized in the East Village as "that girl". Hahaha I wrote Jennifer Warnes, backup singer, a note when Leonard passed and she took the time to contact me back. Canadians...so nice
Oh man, flipping cool experience!!! Sounds like something I would have done🫂🫂💐💐💐💐💐💐 Hung out in the village jamming with the musicians 🎵🎶🎼🎹 I met Melanie... beautiful spirit she lite up that night still does.....thks for sharing your story 🗽🗽🎤☮️☮️
Leonard Cohen was my late fathers favorite singer❤️. I lost him this July. He loved music and he thaught me all about it. Thank you dad and rest easy❤️
Wow. A great regret in my life is not having seen Mr. Cohen live. His music is truly on another level entirely. A true original if there ever was one..
"I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best I can't keep track of each fallen robin. I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel. That's all. I don't even think of you that often." One of my all time favorites.
This breaks my heart. Poor Janice just wanted to be loved, something that most individuals on earth cal relate to. And even she wasn’t “loved the best” or “thought of that often”.
LYRICS! I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel You were talking so brave and so sweet Giving me head on the unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street Those were the reasons and that was New York We were running for the money and the flesh And that was called love for the workers in song Probably still is for those of them left Ah, but you got away, didn't you babe? You just turned your back on the crowd You got away, I never once heard you say I need you, I don't need you I need you, I don't need you And all of that jiving around I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel You were famous, your heart was a legend You told me again you preferred handsome men But for me you would make an exception And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty You fixed yourself, you said, "well, never mind We are ugly but we have the music" And then you got away, didn't you baby? You just turned your back on the crowd You got away, I never once heard you say I need you, I don't need you I need you, I don't need you And all of that jiving around I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best I can't keep track of each fallen robin I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel That's all, I don't even think of you that often
I remember three of us going to see Janis Joplin in concert at Hunter College in 1967. At the time I lived on 26th Street and often walked past the Chelsea Hotel. You'd see limos waiting outside. For years walking past the hotel always brought this song to mind. We now live in Tucson, AZ. I went to the bathroom at a party of a friend of my husbands and there was a huge picture of Janis on the wall. I go out and say to my husband they sure like Janis Joplin mentioning the picture. My husband says, they should the host is her younger brother. Love them both. RIP Janis, RIP Leonard.
MARIAN KEOGH }}} They haven't "Passed On"...they're just "Passin thru"... Maestros like JJ & LC never really pass on,......they just shift their genius to another dimension.!!!....I bet they're still giving it Hell in Heaven.!!!
this song (and his little precursive explanation) makes me cry and i never cry. it gives me that weird happiness/sadness feeling that i simultaneously hate with a fire as hot and unwavering as the sun but continue to indulge myself with
A thousand years ago I lived at this Hotel in NYC. I was a frequent rider of the elevator on this Hotel. I will continuously leave my room and come back. I was an expert on the buttons of that elevator. One of the few technologies I really ever mastered. The door opened. I walked in. Put my finger right on the button. No hesitation. Great sense of mastery in those days. Late in the morning, early in the evening. I noticed a young woman in that elevator. She was riding it with as much delight as I was. Even though she commanded huge audiences, riding that elevator was the only thing she really knew how to do. My lung gathered my courage. I said to her “Are you looking for someone?” She said “Yes, I’m looking for Kris Kristofferson “I said “Little Lady, you’re in luck, I am Kris Kristofferson.” Those were generous times. Even though she knew that I was someone shorter than Kris Kristofferson, she never led on. Great generosity prevailed in those doom decades. Anyhow I wrote this song for Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel.
I missed him too. Only just barely. Discovered him too late. Kept watching for another tour but one day there was a picture of empty chairs they said he used to sit in, in the sunshine outside his home.
He's a real poet and a true musician! Great music I can hear over and over and every single time seems like the first. I feel alive with Leonard. It makes laugh, makes me sad, makes cry, makes me dream. Thank you!
One big regret I have, is not really paying attention, the first time I heard this good man. Because when I came around to having a song of his pop up in my feed, end of summer 2019, I so swiftly and sadly, learned, what I'd what I had missed. Dance Me To The End of Time. 🎵 Ever since, it would move me, and soothe me, just when I really needed it. Thank you, YT, for the pop up ! Thank you Leonard Cohen, for helping me carry my heavy heart ! 🙏 Man, I needed that help, that music, those songs. Right then. I'd imagine, that's what most artists, would like for their fans, to feel that, have that, comfort from their music, ease the pain, carry the spirit lost, till you feel it again. Thank you Leonard Cohen, and, all associates. Rest in Peace 🕊️ Leonard Cohen 🙏 Much Love 💙
you will be greatly missed..... such a hard week.... I saw you perform in 1975 in a small bar in Denver and loved you from that moment on..... a great story goes with that too....
I guess a lot of us are going to be re-visiting some of LC's live performances. This is a good one. What a song, what a dignity in the dude. Always thought he was more humane than Dylan, somehow more akin to Joni in the sense that he could just articulate that stupid impotent rage, and sadness, that we all get time from time. Those comparisons seem redundant anyway - I already miss him. My first time listening to him was on the Boxing Day of the tsunami in Thailand, up north in England where it was snowy and full of hills. LC... fewer fans than the other greats who died this year, but someone so lacking in affection - for all of his droll humour - and so full of love. Thanks for the memories, maybe we'll see you again x
I think you are unfair to Dylan. Listen to "North Country Blues" or "You're a Big Girl Now". Different temperaments. Dylan is a true Gemini, air sign, mercurial, fast, quick. Cohen's a Virgo, a more giving earth sign and very detail oriented. Thus many of his songs are like exquisite Bonsai trees, miniatures. Cohen did get very Dylan like political in later years; Everybody Knows, Closing Time, Democracy is Coming.
I stayed at the Hotel Chelsea once, and I took the stairs to and from my room every time because I wanted to soak in a bit more of the history and atmosphere. Now Leonard's story about the elevator is making me wish I'd climbed into that rickety thing at least once.
I did not think that I would live to see this world without Leonard Cohen. I was stricken by his death in the reality of the lack of his dignified, wise and always classy presentations. Humble is a word he used many times over in different phrases and I was humble in the presence of his voice ~ his words because I was ~ I have been gazing into his soul since between the age of twelve to fifteen . I have since been compelled, mesmerized and breathless by his beauty in many imaginable ways. This man, this mortal like me man has touched my own soul over and over with his prophetic words. As we know what parts the lips to speak with our tongue comes from the heart of every human, I did not have to examine his heart or soul I did not have to question the validity his words I knew them as ' the truth '. Leonard had valor and street smarts, he was a gentleman and could throw down on a party I smile at the time he decided not to play, walked off stage and dropped some acid as only a Cohen moment ! My tears have been shed to say I will sorely miss him is a great understatement, I will miss loving him as a person and an artist. Good nite Leonard, my Leonard ... and although many loved you I am the only one who can love you the way I do. Are you smiling at me from the Celestial realm beautiful Angel? You're a shooting star now baby. Rest well away from this toiling burdensome world dear friend you live on ever in my heart until I am no more as you are now. " Sleep baby sleep " I love you.
@@ingefranz2013 Except it can't be true. Kristofferson didn't enter the scene until about '69, didn't meet Janis until '70, and Cohen always said his encounter with Joplin was in '67. Cohen began telling that story as metaphor - he said she was looking for Kristofferson, he was looking for Brigitte Bardot, i.e., they were both dreaming of far more beautiful people than they were. As he embellished the story over the years, it seems to have morphed into "she actually said that."
Thank you god. If there are such things as angels Leonard Cohen was one. I thank heaven for his existence. As hard as life may be I will always have Leonard Cohen. Glory be.
Julia Which he probably did after his passing. Although somehow I believe his hands would have been full after he met Marianne Jensen again and I doubt he’d spend time with J. Joplin there. He said it in the song it was a little relationship, so nothing that compares with what he felt for Marianne in my opinion. But I guess we will never know.
Yeah, he was at the top of his game and didn't know it. So that he ended by drinking up to three bottles of red wine before a concert. How silly we all humans are! Then we look back and say: Well, I wasn't that bad, was I?
My God such an incredible artist. He draws from a very deep well like very few others. one of my favorite songwriters. The only one I would put in Dylan's league.
I love this song as much as the song Chris Christophersen wrote for Janis. She dies that night it was played for the first time in the morning. What was that name...."Me and Bobby McGee. They all where friends you know, and I mean all, except Jim Morrison who was a drunk(I love him) and was memoriesed by Janis, but sadly he was a heavy drinker at that time, and they never met again. Wish they had met when Jim was at his best, and sober. What a time of great music and musicians.1960-1974❤️🌈🌠☀️
Dave Shepherd I love this song and Regina Spektor does a fantastic cover of it but just like Jeff Buckley’s version of “hallelujah” I still think Cohen did it best. And I’m saying this a huge fan of both of those musicians and I still think they both did very well with the source material.
I was listening to LC in the car today, like I've done a million times before. But this time it was different. Chelsea Hotel came on and It dawned on me that he's not around anymore. Tears were streaming.... It's nice to see him here again.
mich erinnert das Lied an meine ersten Liebesnachmittage mit 15, wobei die Platte endlos lief und die Stimme für mich so schwul und so männlich war. Leonardo Cohan war die Begleitstimme zu meinen 7 Orgasmen an dem einen Nachmittag. Und begleitet mich noch immer.
Thank you Sir for all you gave to us, but most of what you did gave to us will be sadly forgotten. as the years go by, and music as we knew it will take another dive into the darkness of the pits that they call music today. R.I.P. Mr Cohen.
Quelle voix, et quelle belle expression, servie par une splendide mélodie. Après, le sens des paroles et l'histoire avec Janis Joplin : on verra ça plus tard.
4 years ago I've been at The Chelsea Hotel but I couldn't ride the elevator, anyway I spent a week in NY and met this woman, we became lover... and Leonard is responsible for this...
“I need you; I don’t need you” we’ve all said that at some point. This song gets me every time. A beautiful memory
👍
"I need you; I don't need you" is the push and pull of head and heart. Ultimately you make the decision which will win. I know this, if you let your head win your heart will never be the same. Wounds heal yes, but they leave scars forever tougher.
I'm at this age now....where I finally get that part too.... never did really.
How is he able to pack all the stages of grief into a single song? Pure genius.
One of the greatest poets of XXth century. No doubt about it.
One of the great things about Cohen is that he can sing his old songs with such intensity after doing them for so many years. Really, this performance just burns....
He knows how to tell a story. He´s a real poet.
His speech when he received the Premio Príncipe de Asturias a few years back was so moving. He was an incredible story teller.
@@MSD1301
You act like you care about her but you can’t even spell Janis’s name right. Cohen already had “clout and fame” and would not have even been looking for that. As usual, he was telling a story, a story he later regretted for identifying with Janis. “He called it the ‘sole indiscretion in [his] professional life’ “. And if you knew anything about Janis, you’d know that she probably wouldn’t have cared at all. When I think about it, they probably had a great time together, birds of a feather. Other famous people should be lucky, “while the limousines wait in the street.”
I ran away from my small town in Ireland to see Leonard live in Dublin at age 14. My big sister was sent after me.
There was graffiti on an overpass: " Get out your razorblades, LC is in town!"
Years later I saw him in Carnegie Hall and rushed the stage to give him a bouquet of flowers as he began this song. Next evening I was recognized in the East Village as "that girl". Hahaha
I wrote Jennifer Warnes, backup singer, a note when Leonard passed and she took the time to contact me back.
Canadians...so nice
What a prescious story, thank you for sharing
Oh man, flipping cool experience!!! Sounds like something I would have done🫂🫂💐💐💐💐💐💐
Hung out in the village jamming with the musicians 🎵🎶🎼🎹 I met Melanie... beautiful spirit she lite up that night still does.....thks for sharing your story 🗽🗽🎤☮️☮️
Leonard Cohen was my late fathers favorite singer❤️. I lost him this July. He loved music and he thaught me all about it. Thank you dad and rest easy❤️
Rest in peace 🕊️
❤️❤️
I don't usually like this kind of music but this song can bring me to tears in seconds. It's so beautiful, his voice is so unique and chilling.
Mr. Cohen is wonderful.
His lyrics to every song he ever wrote are pure genius Natasha...listen to some more; I'm sure there will be more tears to fall...
I seriously think this is one of the best songs of all time. Leonard was truly a legend. May his memory be a blessing.
How we can leave without him without his songs. Without love in this world. How.
Wow. A great regret in my life is not having seen Mr. Cohen live. His music is truly on another level entirely. A true original if there ever was one..
Better late than never...
RIP, now, you can sing this song in front Janis :'(
yes, and she will give you head again
why not...
Satanella Jourgensen Yes
A fantasy, a nice fantasy but a fantasy nonetheless
Amen together and toasting to the Hotel days🌹🌹💕
"I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel.
That's all. I don't even think of you that often."
One of my all time favorites.
Rufus Wainright cover of this track is awesome too ..👌🏼
This breaks my heart. Poor Janice just wanted to be loved, something that most individuals on earth cal relate to. And even she wasn’t “loved the best” or “thought of that often”.
Goose-bumps, what a performance, what a guy.
LYRICS!
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were talking so brave and so sweet
Giving me head on the unmade bed
While the limousines wait in the street
Those were the reasons and that was New York
We were running for the money and the flesh
And that was called love for the workers in song
Probably still is for those of them left
Ah, but you got away, didn't you babe?
You just turned your back on the crowd
You got away, I never once heard you say
I need you, I don't need you
I need you, I don't need you
And all of that jiving around
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend
You told me again you preferred handsome men
But for me you would make an exception
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
You fixed yourself, you said, "well, never mind
We are ugly but we have the music"
And then you got away, didn't you baby?
You just turned your back on the crowd
You got away, I never once heard you say
I need you, I don't need you
I need you, I don't need you
And all of that jiving around
I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
I can't keep track of each fallen robin
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
That's all, I don't even think of you that often
.....we are ugly but we have the music......
I remember three of us going to see Janis Joplin in concert at Hunter College in 1967. At the time I lived on 26th Street and often walked past the Chelsea Hotel. You'd see limos waiting outside. For years walking past the hotel always brought this song to mind. We now live in Tucson, AZ. I went to the bathroom at a party of a friend of my husbands and there was a huge picture of Janis on the wall. I go out and say to my husband they sure like Janis Joplin mentioning the picture. My husband says, they should the host is her younger brother. Love them both. RIP Janis, RIP Leonard.
You are so lucky to have seen Janis. I was too young to see her before she passed.
The introduction to the song - I could listen to it again and again ana again...
I have..
It's about time for Janis and Leonard to get it on again
Too soon? Haha jk Leonard would've laughed at this comment
tourbillon........difficult now as both have passed on......maybe in heaven though,,,,,,,,,,,,
MARIAN KEOGH }}} They haven't "Passed On"...they're just "Passin thru"... Maestros like JJ & LC never really pass on,......they just shift their genius to another dimension.!!!....I bet they're still giving it Hell in Heaven.!!!
this song (and his little precursive explanation) makes me cry and i never cry. it gives me that weird happiness/sadness feeling that i simultaneously hate with a fire as hot and unwavering as the sun but continue to indulge myself with
I really love when artists talk about their work! The Story the emotions, I love Sharing the emotions
What.
Marvelous performer.
A thousand years ago I lived at this Hotel in NYC. I was a frequent rider of the elevator on this Hotel. I will continuously leave my room and come back. I was an expert on the buttons of that elevator. One of the few technologies I really ever mastered. The door opened. I walked in. Put my finger right on the button. No hesitation. Great sense of mastery in those days. Late in the morning, early in the evening. I noticed a young woman in that elevator. She was riding it with as much delight as I was. Even though she commanded huge audiences, riding that elevator was the only thing she really knew how to do. My lung gathered my courage. I said to her “Are you looking for someone?” She said “Yes, I’m looking for Kris Kristofferson “I said “Little Lady, you’re in luck, I am Kris Kristofferson.” Those were generous times. Even though she knew that I was someone shorter than Kris Kristofferson, she never led on. Great generosity prevailed in those doom decades. Anyhow I wrote this song for Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel.
What, you too?
How many guys have pressed it's elevator buttons? UGH!
Now, go wash your hands, creep!
Thanks
EVERY TIME I SEE AND HEAR THIS. WHICH HAS PROBABLY A THOUSAND IT BRINGS A TEAR TO MY EYE!
You told me again you preferred handsome man but for me you would make an exception :(... RIP to a legend
Seeing him live would've been an honor. Rest in peace. Souls never leave ✨
I missed him too. Only just barely. Discovered him too late. Kept watching for another tour but one day there was a picture of empty chairs they said he used to sit in, in the sunshine outside his home.
He's a real poet and a true musician! Great music I can hear over and over and every single time seems like the first. I feel alive with Leonard. It makes laugh, makes me sad, makes cry, makes me dream. Thank you!
One big regret I have, is not really paying attention, the first time I heard this good man. Because when I came around to having a song of his pop up in my feed, end of summer 2019, I so swiftly and sadly, learned, what I'd what I had missed.
Dance Me To The End of Time. 🎵
Ever since, it would move me, and soothe me, just when I really needed it. Thank you, YT, for the pop up ! Thank you Leonard Cohen, for helping me carry my heavy heart ! 🙏 Man, I needed that help, that music, those songs. Right then. I'd imagine, that's what most artists, would like for their fans, to feel that, have that, comfort from their music, ease the pain, carry the spirit lost, till you feel it again. Thank you Leonard Cohen, and, all associates. Rest in Peace 🕊️ Leonard Cohen 🙏
Much Love 💙
May Leonard rest in peace and may his memory be forever blessed.
Every time you listen one of his songs -- it's as if it's the first time. Every time.
you will be greatly missed..... such a hard week.... I saw you perform in 1975 in a small bar in Denver and loved you from that moment on..... a great story goes with that too....
In a small bar?! How lucky. In Europe he drew crowds and approaching him wasn't that easy.
Have you ever told the story, .I wish you would xx
I guess a lot of us are going to be re-visiting some of LC's live performances. This is a good one. What a song, what a dignity in the dude. Always thought he was more humane than Dylan, somehow more akin to Joni in the sense that he could just articulate that stupid impotent rage, and sadness, that we all get time from time. Those comparisons seem redundant anyway - I already miss him. My first time listening to him was on the Boxing Day of the tsunami in Thailand, up north in England where it was snowy and full of hills. LC... fewer fans than the other greats who died this year, but someone so lacking in affection - for all of his droll humour - and so full of love. Thanks for the memories, maybe we'll see you again x
kingprune Very eloquently stated message
I think you are unfair to Dylan. Listen to "North Country Blues" or "You're a Big Girl Now". Different temperaments. Dylan is a true Gemini, air sign, mercurial, fast, quick. Cohen's a Virgo, a more giving earth sign and very detail oriented. Thus many of his songs are like exquisite Bonsai trees, miniatures. Cohen did get very Dylan like political in later years; Everybody Knows, Closing Time, Democracy is Coming.
I stayed at the Hotel Chelsea once, and I took the stairs to and from my room every time because I wanted to soak in a bit more of the history and atmosphere. Now Leonard's story about the elevator is making me wish I'd climbed into that rickety thing at least once.
He is so incredible. Real art right here.
so beautiful and touching
I did not think that I would live to see this world without Leonard Cohen. I was stricken by his death in the reality of the lack of his dignified, wise and always classy presentations. Humble is a word he used many times over in different phrases and I was humble in the presence of his voice ~ his words because I was ~ I have been gazing into his soul since between the age of twelve to fifteen . I have since been compelled, mesmerized and breathless by his beauty in many imaginable ways. This man, this mortal like me man has touched my own soul over and over with his prophetic words. As we know what parts the lips to speak with our tongue comes from the heart of every human, I did not have to examine his heart or soul I did not have to question the validity his words I knew them as ' the truth '. Leonard had valor and street smarts, he was a gentleman and could throw down on a party I smile at the time he decided not to play, walked off stage and dropped some acid as only a Cohen moment ! My tears have been shed to say I will sorely miss him is a great understatement, I will miss loving him as a person and an artist. Good nite Leonard, my Leonard ... and although many loved you I am the only one who can love you the way I do. Are you smiling at me from the Celestial realm beautiful Angel? You're a shooting star now baby. Rest well away from this toiling burdensome world dear friend you live on ever in my heart until I am no more as you are now. " Sleep baby sleep " I love you.
He has a way with words. As powerful now as they ever were.
One the best poet Canada has ever produced and the goodness of rock ..
Fuck
Oh lovely Leonard, I never tire of your music and song. Thanks to youtube it’s right there, slainte 💚💚💚🧡🧡
I clearly can hear Janis' voice saying: "I'm looking for Kris Kristofferson." :)
This IS really funny Element in Song.
@@ingefranz2013 Except it can't be true. Kristofferson didn't enter the scene until about '69, didn't meet Janis until '70, and Cohen always said his encounter with Joplin was in '67. Cohen began telling that story as metaphor - he said she was looking for Kristofferson, he was looking for Brigitte Bardot, i.e., they were both dreaming of far more beautiful people than they were. As he embellished the story over the years, it seems to have morphed into "she actually said that."
Thank you god. If there are such things as angels Leonard Cohen was one. I thank heaven for his existence. As hard as life may be I will always have Leonard Cohen. Glory be.
Very nice remembrance. Glory be.
Hope he meets her again
She died at 27
Julia Which he probably did after his passing. Although somehow I believe his hands would have been full after he met Marianne Jensen again and I doubt he’d spend time with J. Joplin there. He said it in the song it was a little relationship, so nothing that compares with what he felt for Marianne in my opinion. But I guess we will never know.
This song is so happy yet so sad at the same time. Timeless
Floors me every time I hear it
What a great singer / songwriter in these romantic years ! His hommage to Janis Joplin tuch all our hearts
Yeah, he was at the top of his game and didn't know it. So that he ended by drinking up to three bottles of red wine before a concert. How silly we all humans are! Then we look back and say: Well, I wasn't that bad, was I?
Idk that it is flattering to joplin
little lady you was realy in lucky...he was Leonard Cohen
+Massimiliano Pomarè The lucky lady was Janis Joplin
Peter Huisman I know...
LC was lucky...she was Janis! Last name unnecessary.
No mate. They were off their heads on heroin . He was a survivor but the majority were not. Do your research ffs.
thank God for Mr Leonard Cohen.
My favorite song. I will miss this man so dearly.
Just wonderful !! Nothing to say more....
My God such an incredible artist. He draws from a very deep well like very few others. one of my favorite songwriters. The only one I would put in Dylan's league.
I love his voice.... Such a lovely man
J' aime tant Léonard Cohen et sa voix si profondément touchante.....un côté ballade....
A perfect offering.....ty, Mr Cohen
I have loved this song since the first time I heard it. But never knew it was about Janice until now.
it´s a very very sad day... RIP Leonard!
I love this song as much as the song Chris Christophersen wrote for Janis. She dies that night it was played for the first time in the morning. What was that name...."Me and Bobby McGee. They all where friends you know, and I mean all, except Jim Morrison who was a drunk(I love him) and was memoriesed by Janis, but sadly he was a heavy drinker at that time, and they never met again. Wish they had met when Jim was at his best, and sober. What a time of great music and musicians.1960-1974❤️🌈🌠☀️
rest in peace and love
So many wonderful songs...
Leonard , you are my fine memories , so many moments when I listened to you SO MANY GREAT MOMENTS.
Farewell, fare thee well Leonard a light to the world
Rest in peace! Hallelujah!!
crying my eyes out.. :(
so glad i saw Leonard play this song live
dear leonard cohen. you were a great singer and poet. may god enjoy your music in the midnight choir of angels. shalom!
I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH! =((( RIP
RIP :(
L Cohen I miss you and I thank you.
its so strange to hear the original after hearing Lana's version first. 😯
The original will ALWAYS be the best...:-)
Kea Lynn Lana sucks! :)
Lana beautifully sang this song, but the original will always top.
Dave Shepherd I love this song and Regina Spektor does a fantastic cover of it but just like Jeff Buckley’s version of “hallelujah” I still think Cohen did it best. And I’m saying this a huge fan of both of those musicians and I still think they both did very well with the source material.
This isn't the original. It's a live version from many years after the song was released
Such a beautiful song, thank you .
I LOVE the way he says "fallen robin"
AHHHHHH , Leonard, this is NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE!!!!
I was listening to LC in the car today, like I've done a million times before. But this time it was different. Chelsea Hotel came on and It dawned on me that he's not around anymore. Tears were streaming.... It's nice to see him here again.
So sad to think that a generation or two after we're gone this will all be buried in the sands of time as if it never happened.
castles made of sand, fall in the sea...eventually....Jimi Hendrix
My God. Thank you for existing ❤️
mich erinnert das Lied an meine ersten Liebesnachmittage mit 15, wobei die Platte endlos lief und die Stimme für mich so schwul und so männlich war. Leonardo Cohan war die Begleitstimme zu meinen 7 Orgasmen an dem einen Nachmittag.
Und begleitet mich noch immer.
Too much information bro
Cudowny wykonawca,mogę To słuchać godzinami.
So Happy I got to get into the Chelsea Hotel back the days it was still open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely beautiful song
"You're in luck little lady, I'm Kris Kristofferson"
So beautiful. A song of that age
Such a beautiful love affair song
Beautiful.
Drop dead beautiful. The BBC documentary that this comes from is now available on the iPlayer for those who can get it.
I love Leonard ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. From italy
I agree! I have tried to justify my love for this song to no avail.
Leonard The Master.
The introduction is as good as the song...
As long as any of us live, we will never see the likes of Leonard Cohen again.
Huh? But we still have Bobby Dialin! And a NOBEL Prize!
I cry every time.
I have several thousand albums. This might be my favourite song.
Cohen may very well be the best lyricist ever.
Amazing n moving...where are nowadays' Leonard Cohens ?
Thank you Sir for all you gave to us, but most of what you did gave to us will be sadly forgotten. as the years go by, and music as we knew it will take another dive into the darkness of the pits that they call music today. R.I.P. Mr Cohen.
R.I.P genio, te amamos en todos los rincones del universo!
Cette voix...Envoutante...Dédiée aux amours fugitives..Qu'on se rappellera pourtant....
Well buggar me never knew this song was about Janis !
What a voice
Simplesmente, maravilhoso
Quelle voix, et quelle belle expression, servie par une splendide mélodie. Après, le sens des paroles et l'histoire avec Janis Joplin : on verra ça plus tard.
Simply great! He met Janis Joplin here
Lana made me find this big man. Thank you Lana
I have enjoyed this song for nigh on 40 year and I never knew what head was.. but now I know.
Anthony Bourdain reviewing Chelsea Hotel
I love him!
4 years ago I've been at The Chelsea Hotel but I couldn't ride the elevator, anyway I spent a week in NY and met this woman, we became lover... and Leonard is responsible for this...
Yes, and I heard your "lover" has been seeking revenge against Cohen ever since. 😛😉
Thank you.