SNEAK PEEK: Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin
Special | 10m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Watch a sneak peek of Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin!
Watch a sneak peek of Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin!
SNEAK PEEK: Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin
Special | 10m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Watch a sneak peek of Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin!
How to Watch Leonard Cohen – Live in Dublin
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(applause) - [Announcer] Coming up your special PBS sneak peek of Leonard Cohen's iconic "Live in Dublin" concert recorded at the O2 Arena in 2013, here for you to enjoy, thanks to your support for your local PBS station.
And now here's Leonard Cohen with "So Long, Marianne."
(crescendoing music) (rhythmic melodic music) - [Leonard (singing)] Won't you come over to the window, my little daughter, (organ playing and guitar strumming) I'd like to try to read your palm (organ music) I used to think I was a little gypsy boy (guitar and organ) before I let you take my whole - [Backup singers] So long, Marianne... - [All singing] It's time that we began to laugh and cry.
and cry... and laugh about it all.
(fiddle playing) This thing's so pretty.
(fiddle playing) You know that I really love to live with you, (organ playing) But you make me forget so very much.
(organ playing) I forget to pray for the angel (guitar strumming) And then the angel forgets to pray for us!
- [Backup singers] So long, Marianne... - [All] It's time that we began... to laugh and cry... and cry... and laugh about it all again.
(fiddle and organ music) - [Leonard] For now...
I need your hidden love (organ trilling) I'm cold as a new razor blade (organ trills) You left when I told you that I was curious.
(organ playng) I never said, I never said, I never said that I was... brave!
- [Backup singers] So long, Marianne... - [Leonard] Marianne!
- [All] It's time that we began to laugh and cry... and cry and laugh about it all again.
(music crescendoes and continues) (fiddle solo) - [Backup singers] So long, Marianne it's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
(organ and fiddle music) - [Leonard] Oh, you are really such a pretty one, [Backup singers] Ooooh ooh oooh - [Leonard] I see you've gone and changed your name again (organ trills) And just when I climbed this whole mountainside (guitar strumming) to wash my eyelid, wash my eyelids... in the rain!
- [All] So long, Marianne!
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
So long, Marianne...
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
(organ and fiddle crescendo) (applause) - [Announcer] Leonard Cohen's timeless lyrics and their transcendent power made him one of the best selling Canadian artists of all time.
He captured the joy and the pain of life in equal measure.
(guitar trills) With your qualifying contribution to your local PBS station, you'll be able to enjoy PBS Passport, a terrific member benefit that lets you stream exclusive members only programs like "Leonard Cohen: Live in Dublin" with songs like "Dance Me to the End of Love."
- [Leonard] Dance me... to the end of love.
- [All] Dance me... to the end of love.
(rhythmic organ and guitar music) (fiddle solo) (whoosh sound effect) - [Announcer] Scan the QR code or go to the website on your screen to give to your local PBS station now.
Your support makes everything you love from PBS possible, whether you stream with the PBS app, watch on TV or watch online.
With PBS Passport, you'll be able to experience the full three-hour "Live in Dublin" concert that includes dozens of Leonard Cohen's most beloved songs, like "Bird On the Wire."
- [Leonard] Like a bird... (fiddle melody) ... On the wire... (fiddle melody) Like a drunk in some old midnight choir... - [Announcer] And more than 30 songs from Cohen's incomparable catalog with an unparalleled concert that Rolling Stone called, "A three-hour tour of his heart."
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Enjoy the best of Leonard Cohen with selections from the music that made us fall in love with him, like his classic epic song, "Hallelujah."
(organ music) - [All singing] Hallelujah... (mandolin riff) - [Leonard] Hallelujah!
(whoosh sound effect) - [Announcer] Take a moment right now and scan the QR code or go to the website on your screen to give to your PBS station, and then experience this entire three-hour history-making performance-- "Leonard Cohen: Live In Dublin."
(whoosh sound effect) And with PBS Passport, you'll also be able to enjoy live performances from Leonard Cohen's 20th album, "Songs From the Road," filmed in 2008 and 2009 around the world, from the Royal Albert Hall to Coachella.
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Scan the QR code or go to the website on your screen to make a qualifying investment in your local PBS station and experience all that PBS Passport has to offer.
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