Leonard Cohen – The Bird On A Wire Concerts (DVD)

Yet more archive film has been found from the famous 1972 tour, which formed the basis of the best-selling 2010 DVD Bird on a Wire. Concert material from the shows in Stockholm, Paris and the Albert Hall, with Cohen at the height of his powers performing Marianne, Susanne, Joan of Arc, The Story of Isaac, The Dealer and many other songs, has now been edited together by Tony Palmer, who shot the original material. This is interspersed with more backstage film of the band on tour, and even some fresh interviews with Cohen himself, together with some previously unreleased sound recordings of his early masterpieces. This will all add considerably to footage of the early part of Cohen’s career, for which there is an increasing need since, apart from the film Bird on a Wire, now banned by SONY, there is comparatively little widely available.