Irving Peter Layton
(né Israel Pincu Lazarovitch)
12 March 1912 – 4 January 2006
He is the light of our generation and after his 130 or 140 years are over and the man's removed from his work so that nothing lies between the reader and the work, the universe Irving created will shine forever.– Leonard Cohen, 1997
Cohen gets hardly any of those notes right. He needs an accompanist. What was the reason for singing that jingle?
ReplyDeleteWish I knew, John. I suppose he got caught up in the moment. Not his best performance, but I'll take Cohen hitting all the wrong notes over Céline Dion hitting all the right ones any day.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of two old poets appearing together on MuchMusic. Such a thing would never happen today.