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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Leonard Cohen
Author: Leonard Cohen
Label: Columbia
Year: 1971
On Songs Of Love And Hate. That raincoat he bought out of pure necessity during his first trip to England. Weather was so bad he left for Greece and bought himself a house (on the isle of Hydra) with the famous 'room' immortalized on his second LP Songs From A Room.
Covers:
Bernd Clüver [as Die Zeit geht immer den leichteren Weg]
Albert Hammond [melody of the refrain in When I Need You (see there); case was settled in court, while defendants produced musicologist evidence of the same motiv being used since Schubert's days]
Jennifer Warnes [on LP with nothing but Cohen covers names Famous Blue Raincoat]
Tori Amos [on that other Cohen tribute Tower Of Song]
Yasmine [as Je Eeuwige Regenjas]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)