This week on AOL's Spinner, see an exclusive video and read an interview with filmaker Murray Lerner, who talks about filming Leonard Cohen's Live at the Isle of Wright in 1970.

Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wright 1970, the legendary singer-songwriter's 1970 performance at the festival, which followed a set by Jimi Hendrix, is released for the first time. Hear the full album before you can buy it at AOL's Spinner.

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Witness the historical concert festival that 600,000 experienced in awe nearly 35 years ago as the Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist quietly tamed the crowd. Experience the energy, drama and magic through the songs, musings and poetry of a true legend – Leonard Cohen.

As an exclusive offer for U.S. fans, preorder either the CD/DVD or 2 LP Vinyl sets today from Leonard Cohen's official online store and automatically be entered to win 2 tickets to any date on his upcoming U.S. Tour!

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Happy 75th Birthday, Mr. Cohen! We'll see you down the road.

"Master Song," the second cover from Beck's Record Club No. 2 is now up at Beck.com!

Record Club: 'Songs Of Leonard Cohen' - "Master Song" from Beck Hansen.

The second round of Beck's Record Club series has begun, this time with a gathering of his musician friends recording a cover of Leonard Cohen's 1967 album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. The recruited group is made up of Devendra Banhart, Ben, Andrew and Matt from MGMT, Andrew from Wolfmother, Binki Shapiro of Little Joy, and Brian Lebarton and Bram Inscore from his touring band. You can watch the video of their gruff, groovy and cello-lined take on "Suzanne," with a new song added once a week. Beck's website says, "There is no intention to 'add to' the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens. And those who aren't familiar with the albums in question will hopefully look for the songs in their definitive versions." Look out for track two, "Master Song," coming soon!

Unbeautiful Winner: Leonard Cohen
By Robert Christgau
8/17/09

Circumstances rarely afford artists the chance to leave a testament. 'Live In London' comes pretty close.

As someone who admired poet Leonard Cohen's second and last novel Beautiful Losers in 1966, before Cohen was a recording artist or I was a music critic, I followed Cohen's musical career with admiration from the beginning. But the admiration was always cut with skepticism -- a skepticism that the focus and reach and three-hour duration of his February 19 comeback concert at Manhattan's Beacon Theater blew away. My conversion experience was far from the only one that night, and proved replicable -- when Cohen stopped in Seattle two months later, a friend walked in with my level of show-me and left with my level of holy-moley. Having kicked off the U.S. phase of a world tour already nine months old, the Beacon concert was soon followed by Live in London, a double-CD and/or DVD vividly documenting pretty much the same songs and stage business I'd witnessed. It prepared the way for two sold-out May concerts at NYC's much larger Radio City Music Hall, which will be followed in turn by, holy moley, an October 23 appearance at Madison Square Garden.

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Tune of the Week: Leonard Cohen & Sonny Rollins
Fojazz.com

Here’s a cult classic from "Sunday Night," the fearlessly eclectic TV show hosted by David Sanborn and Jools Holland in the late 1980s (better remembered by its second-season title, "Night Music").

Dig Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins, paired on a haunting rendition of Cohen's "Who By Fire," joined by the backing singers from Was (not Was). It's hard to tell who the leader is — is Rollins backing Cohen or is Cohen supporting Rollins? But that mystery is part of the beauty.

Also on the show that night were two other singers from Cohen's orbit (Perla Batalla and Julie Christensen), word-jazz hipster Ken Nordine, and frequent guest George Duke.

Belfast says a mighty hallelujah for Cohen
Belfast Telegraph
Monday, 27 July 2009
By Shane Donaghey

George Michael turned it into a disco, Kylie into a party, Bruce into the best night in a bar ever.

Last night Leonard Cohen and his Unified Heart Touring Company turned the soulless barn of Belfast's Odyssey into the best cafe in Europe, one of those all-night bars in Paris known to the few.

Of course, when you get a standing ovation before you've a note growled out then you’re among friends.

Those who don't get Cohen miss a treat. Yes there are the songs of loss and loneliness, but leavened with a wit drier than a drought in the Sahara.

And songs of love among the greatest ever written.

Kicking off to Dance Me To the End of Love a near-full house of mainly middle-aged reliving the bedsit years moved with every note. And clung on to every word. It was almost a revivalist meeting and not just because he spent a lot of time kneeling on the carpet.

With a perfect band a special mention must go to the backing trio of Cohen collaborator and lover Sharon Robinson and sisters Patti and Charley Webb.

And how could you not love a man who writes, "I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk."

Hallelujah won a deserving standing ovation and a place in hell for Simon Cowell, while you haven’t lived until you've seen a 74-year-old man seduce every woman in the audience during I'm Your Man.

It's a bad world out there. Cohen provides a soundtrack to understand it. Genius.