{"id":806325,"date":"2020-04-13T07:57:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=982615"},"modified":"2020-04-13T07:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:57:50","slug":"watch-david-gilmour-perform-leonard-cohens-1977-obscurity-fingerprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-david-gilmour-perform-leonard-cohens-1977-obscurity-fingerprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch David Gilmour Perform Leonard Cohen\u2019s 1977 Obscurity \u2018Fingerprints\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour<\/a> and his family hosted another digital event celebrating the release of the new novel Theater for Dreamers<\/em> by Polly Samson, Gilmour\u2019s wife and long-time creative collaborator. The book takes place on the Greek island of Hydra in the early Sixties and features Leonard Cohen<\/a>, who lived there at the time, as one of the characters.<\/p>\n

On the first broadcast<\/a>, Gilmour played the Cohen tunes \u201cSo Long, Marianne\u201d and \u201cBird on the Wire.\u201d This time around, he reached far deeper into the catalog and dug out \u201cFingerprints\u201d from 1977\u2019s Death of a Ladies Man<\/em>. (Fast-forward to 15:45 to check it out.) He\u2019s joined on harmony vocals by his teenage daughter Romany and others in his family.<\/p>\n

Near the end of the event, at the 32:30 mark, Gilmour and family sing \u201cHey, That\u2019s No Way to Say Goodbye\u201d from 1967\u2019s Songs of Leonard Cohen.<\/em> All four songs played across these two events are roughly associated with Cohen\u2019s time on Hydra.<\/p>\n

\u201cFingerprints\u201d wasn\u2019t heard by the public until 1977, but Samson says it began as a poem in the Sixties. Like many songs from Death of a Ladies Man<\/em>, it was never performed live by Cohen himself. He was unhappy with producer Phil Spector\u2019s work on the album and didn\u2019t tour behind it.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the broadcast, Gilmour and Samson say that they\u2019ve been listening to little but Cohen during the past year or so. Gilmour says his current favorite song is \u201cGoing Home\u201d from Cohen\u2019s 2012 LP Old Ideas.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n