LEONARD COHEN: LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT 1970
On August 31, 1970, 35-year-old Leonard Cohen was awakened at 2 a.m. from a nap in his trailer and brought onstage to perform with his band at the third annual Isle of Wight music festival. The audience of 600,000 was in a fiery and frenzied mood, after turning the festival into a political arena, trampling the fences, setting fire to structures and equipment – and stoked by the most incendiary performance of Jimi Hendrix’s career, less than three weeks before his death. As Cohen followed Hendrix’s set, onlookers (and fellow festival headliners) Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins and others stood sidestage in awe as the Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist quietly tamed the crowd. “It was a brilliant performance, and Lerner’s cameras captured Cohen’s commanding presence, hypnotist’s charm, and an intimacy that would seem unfeasible in such a vast, inhospitable space.” (Sylvie Simmons)
- Joan Baez - Woman in White
- Kris Kristofferson
- Leonard Cohen
- Judy Collins
- Bob Johnston
- Murray Lerner William Turnley
- Bob Elfstrom
- Bradley Stonesifer
- Doug Dunderdale
- Mark Kaplan
- John Lecca
- Alex Marquez
- Einar Westerlund
- George Panos
- Leonard Cohen
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