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Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 DVD
- Item Number
- 189
- Estimated Value
- 40 USD
- Sold
- 90 USD to sjohnsen
- Number of Bids
- 13 - Bid History
Item Description
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. Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, whose footage of the 1970 festival did not begin to see release until 1995, was able to capture Cohen’s performance.
This is the Premiere Legacy Edition. It's in perfect condition and contains the DVD concert film & documentary plus the complete performance on CD!
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