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Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Bercy: June 18, 2013
Visuals: Filmed from acute angle and a distance. Fair to good.  Audio: Good
Uploaded by Joelle Perez

Best 2013 Leonard Cohen Videos: The best available video of each of the songs performed during the 2013 Leonard Cohen Old Ideas World Tour can be found at the Best Of 2013 Leonard Cohen Tour Video Setlist

Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
Bercy: June 18, 2013
Visuals: Filmed from a distance. Audio: Good
Uploaded by dilele84

Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Bercy: June 18, 2013
Visuals: Filmed from a distance. Audio: Good
Uploaded by eglemas

The first concert of the 2013 Leonard Cohen European Tour take place tonight, June 18, 2013, at 8 PM in Paris at Palais Omnisports de Bercy.

Credit Due Department: Photo by Paul Myers ‏@pulmyears  posted Dec 29, 2012.

Note: This photo and text appeared in last year’s Heck Of A Guy Father’s Day entry and remains one of my favorite posts.

Father’s Day & Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen’s reference to Father’s Day in First We Take Manhattan, “It’s Father’s Day and everybody’s wounded,” isn’t likely to turn up on a Hallmark card. Further, the Canadian singer-songwriter has consistently criticized his own record as a father:

I have never been a good civilian. my children like me. But the truth is that I tried to be a good father and husband, but I was not very good.¹

On the other hand, he has just as consistently expressed his affection, admiration, and appreciation for his son, Adam, and his daughter, Lorca. And, he certainly seems to enjoy being grandfather to Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen (daughter of Lorca Cohen and Rufus Wainwright) and Cassius Cohen (Adam’s son, pictured below).²

So, when Dominique BOILE serendipitously suggested the evocative photo now seen atop this post (click on images for best viewing) for another project, I realized that a young Leonard Cohen reading from Peter Pan to his delighted children could well be the quintessential Heck Of A Guy Father’s Day offering.

Turns out I was right.

1. Magazine, Sunday Supplement to El Mundo, September 26, 2001 [↩]
2. A collection of Leonard Cohen’s comments about his children and childhood in general can be found at Leonard Cohen On Children. [↩]

Dominique BOILE forwards photos of Leonard Cohen he took a few hours ago in Paris. These and other shots of Leonard Cohen, Dominique, and Dominique’s wife, Annie, can be viewed at Leonard Cohen In Paris – June 15, 2013.