Leonard Cohen - ouverture du festival d'Aix-en-Provence - 1970 - Revolution & Bird on the wire

video mise en ligne sur Youbute par Allan Showalter. Voici ce qu'il dit : On August 2, 1970 Leonard Cohen played at the Aix-en-Provence Music Festival, an event overshadowed by his appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival later that month. While the recording from the Aix Festival is only poor to fair, it is authentic and many of the photos included have never before been published.

On leaving France

the blue sky makes the plane go slow

they say I stole their money which is true

let the proprietors of the revolution consider this:

a song the people loved was written by a thief

Aix est  une ville bourgeoise et conservatrice ... ça ne date pas d'aujourd'hui.
Demain, des primaires sont organisées par la droite, les élections se profilent à l'horizon.
Alors, encore un morceau engagé de Leonard Cohen, qui convient particulièrement aux jours présents.

 

Leonard Cohen "There is a war", album New skin for old ceremony, 1974