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No end of love for Leonard Cohen in Poland

05.10.2010
photo - PAP/Marek Zimny
Seventy six year-old Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen played greatest hits from a catalogue going back five decades in Katowice last night.

Dressed in a dark suit and hat, Cohen opened with Dance Me To The End of Love and followed with Everybody Knows, Waiting For The Miracle, Suzanne, Hallelujah and I’m your Man.

The singer also paid tribute to Janis Joplin on the 40th anniversary of her death.

For fans who missed last night’s concert, Cohen will be performing in Warsaw on Sunday. The gigs were originally scheduled for March but had to be postponed due to the singer’s back problems.

His homeland apart, Poland is a country where Cohen enjoys an enormous popularity, dating back to the 1980s and the excellent Polish versions of his greatest hits translated by Maciej Zembaty and Maciej Karpinski.

He made three visits to Poland - in 1985, 2007 and 2008. In 2007 he made a brief appearance in a Polish Radio Studio during a concert promoting a CD by Anjani Thomas and started by reading out his favourite poem by Czeslaw Milosz in an English translation.

Cohen was born in 1934 of Jewish parents of Lithuanian origin. (mk/pg)