When Jarvis Cocker met LEONARD COHEN - BBC Radio 2, February 15th 2012

When Jarvis Cocker met LEONARD COHEN
BBC Radio 2
Broadcast: February 15th 2012
22.00-23.00

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6 Music's Jarvis Cocker speaks to Leonard Cohen about his song-writing, loves and life ahead of the
release of Old Ideas, his first album in eight years.

The 77-year-old Canadian artist, who began reading his verse with a little jazz piano accompaniment
in the 50s and published the novel Beautiful Losers in 1966, didn't release his debut album until 1968.

The lyricism of Cohen's songs has always betrayed his literary origins, but he speaks frankly about
how challenging he finds the songwriting process, even after the release of a twelfth album. Rather
than choosing from a multitude of ideas, he claims to find himself "scraping the bottom of the barrel"
and just trying to get a beginning, middle and end.

Nevertheless the ten new compositions, which deal with familiar Cohen themes of love and lost, death
and spirituality, have already received a favourable critical reception ["new gems from an old master"
according to The Telegraph].

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