Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
Montreal (Bell Centre), Quebec, 6 November 2017
Video source: Documentary by Jack Bender CBC Radio Canada 2018 vimeo 1:28:28 MP4 251M
01 Sting - Dance Me to the End of Love
02 Patrick Watson - Who by Fire
03 Feist - Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
04 Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites (The Lumineers) - Democracy
05 Betty LaVette - In My Secret Life (with Sharon Robinson)
06 Elvis Costello - The Future
07 Adam Cohen and The Webb Sisters - So Long, Marianne (includes reading of Mr. Cohen's final letter to Marianne)
08 k.d. lang - Hallelujah
09 Shaar Hashomayim Choir with Willie Nelson, Celine Dion, Peter Gabriel, and Chris Martin (Coldplay) - Tower of Song (*)
10 Sting - Sisters of Mercy
11 Courtney Love - Everybody Knows
12 Adam Cohen and Lana Del Ray - Chelsea Hotel #2
13 Damien Rice - Famous Blue Raincoat
14 Elvis Costello - Bird on the Wire
15 Adam Cohen, Coeur de pirate and Damien Rice - The Partisan
16 Shaar Hashomayim Choir with pre-recorded voice of Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Audio source: FM Radio Broadcasting Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. on CBC Radio 2, except 12, 16 and 22 from video - complete
00 radio host intro
01 Sting - Dance Me to the End of Love
02 Feist - Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
03 Patrick Watson - Who by Fire
04 Sharon Robinson - I’m Your Man
05 Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites (The Lumineers) - Democracy
06 Pre-recorded voice of Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep (with Sharon Robinson) (in video audeince too)
07 Ron Sexsmith - Suzanne
08 Elvis Costello - The Future
09 Damien Rice - Famous Blue Raincoat
10 Adam Cohen and The Webb Sisters - So Long, Marianne (includes reading of Mr. Cohen's final letter to Marianne)
11 k.d. lang - Hallelujah
12 Shaar Hashomayim Choir with Willie Nelson, Celine Dion, Peter Gabriel, and Chris Martin (Coldplay) - Tower of Song (*)
13 Sting - Sisters of Mercy
14 Adam Cohen and Lana Del Ray - Chelsea Hotel #2
15 Betty LaVette - In My Secret Life (with Sharon Robinson)
16 Courtney Love - Everybody Knows
17 Seth Rogen (talk, recitation) - Field Commander Cohen
18 BØRNS and The Webb Sisters - If It Be Your Will
19 Adam Cohen, Coeur de pirate and Damien Rice - The Partisan
20 Elvis Costello - Bird on the Wire - talk
21 Sting - Anthem
22 Shaar Hashomayim Choir - You Want It Darker (Leonard Cohen cover) (with pre-recorded voice of Leonard Cohen)
23 Adam Cohen (the closing speech) and Basia Bulat - Coming Back to You
24 Basia Bulat - Closing Time
(*) "I’m so grateful to you because tonight it’s become clear to me, tonight, the great mysteries have unraveled,
and I’ve penetrated to the very core of things. And I have stumbled on the answer, and I’m not the sort of chap who would keep this to himself.
Do you want to hear the answer? Are you truly hungry for the answer? Then you’re just the people I want to tell it to.
Because it’s a rare thing to come upon this, and I’m going to let you in on it now.
The answer to the mysteries: Do dum dum dum, de do dum dum".