Leonard Cohen shows there's life in the old dog yet with launch of new album

Songwriter on Old Ideas, his first album in eight years: 'This record invites one to be swept along, even if you have written it'His detractors may sarcastically call him Laughing Len, but Leonard Cohen kept a roomful of journalists entertained on Wednesday night as he launched his first album in eight years."How is it for you to listen to your own records?" asked onstage interviewer Jarvis Cocker after the album, Old Ideas, had been played."I wasn't listening," said Cohen. He went on to say tha...

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