“ Charming, funny, poignant, smart, sharp and sexy, - yes at 73-year-old decked out in a grey fedora, grey shirt and black double-breasted suit he is still a lady killer - the Montreal poet-singer-songwriter easily seduced a sold-out crowd during the first of four back-to-back shows at the venue which wrap up on Monday night.
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TorontoSun.com - Music- Leonard Cohen is our man
Another (sigh) “He’s our man” cliche-fest with the right facts, the right analysis, and a less than awesome finish: “If this is, in fact, Cohen’s swansong in terms of being a live performer, there are much worse ways he could go out. But I’m here to say he still has a lot of life left in him.” - Yep, there are much worse ways he could go out. Stirs the soul, doesn’t it. My hunch is that a lot of Toronto reporters envy those guys in places like Frederickson and those other Eastern Canada towns who got to describe these performances first, before these oft-repeated phrases became yawners.
