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Fact #140177

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Short story:

Leonard Cohen plays at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK.

Full article:

Michael Eavis (organiser of Glastonbury Festival) : There will never be anything better than Leonard Cohen’s performance that night for me. I had been trying to get him to play at Glastonbury for almost 40 years and I could never get him. Then, the only time I didn’t try to get him, his agent rang up and offered him.

People say he’s grumpy and depressed but he’s nothing like that. After every song he took his hat off and bowed to the audience. He’s such a lovely man. When he got to the final song, Hallelujah, people were just lifting off the ground.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, Sept 2008)