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by ellenjoan
Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:10 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: Magic is afoot...a memory
Replies: 4
Views: 2420

Magic is afoot...a memory

Does anyone else out there on this forum remember hearing Buffy St Marie's version of "Magic is afoot, God is alive" on the great 1970's "album rock" FM station WNEW-New York? I can remember so well that the afternoon DJ, Scott Muni, used to play "Magic is afoot.." ever...
by ellenjoan
Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:08 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: how did you get into leonard cohen?
Replies: 73
Views: 23643

One night in 1967, when I was 12, I stayed overnight in my cousin's room. For some reason, she left Judy Collin's Wildflowers album on her record player for me to listen to as I was falling asleep. I still don't really know why, I don't even think my cousin liked me much. "Sisters of Mercy"...
by ellenjoan
Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:23 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: References in Cohen songs to other songs / poems / etc
Replies: 15
Views: 9826

In the song TheWindow: 1. "come forth from your cloud of unknowing" - The Cloud of Unknowing is a medieval English book of devotion and mysticism 2. "the New Jerusalem glowing" - William Blake's poem of the same name: And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountai...

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