Dear Leonard Cohen:
Congratulations on your 65th birthday and thank you for all the beautiful moments you're
giving me. Please go on forever. Till the end of love.
All the best, Elsie
Elsie Gundersen <kagund@online.no>
Skien, Norway - Wednesday, September 08, 1999 at 08:22:33 (PDT)
Dear Leonard,
All our best wishes on your 65th. Birthday.
Your music has been an inspiration and has given us a lot of pleasure through the years.
We look forward to seeing you again in concert.
Best regards,
Beryl& Jean-Pierre Touchard
Touchard <jtouchard@hotmail.com>
London, UK - Sunday, September 12, 1999 at 02:22:21 (PDT)
Dear Leonard Cohen!
When I heard about this idea of birthday wishes, I wanted to take the chance and write you
some words. Although you don't know me, you should know that your music means very much to
me. It has impressed deep. Thank ypu for all this beautiful music and wonderful lyrics!
All the best for your birthday!
Sincerly,
Kathrin linnemann
Kathrin Linnemann <kathrin_linnemann@yahoo.de>
Göttingen, Germany - Monday, September 13, 1999 at 11:47:58 (PDT)
Cher Monsieur Cohen,
C'est vraiment une faveur inespérée pour moi de vous souhaiter un heureux anniversaire
de naissance. Un jour Dieu a permis la naissance d'un être chaleureux et vraiment entier,
et cet être c'est vous. Vous êtes vraiment un homme merveilleux et aussi très réel.
J'admire la facilité avec laquelle vous touchez à la réalité. Votre musique m'enchante
et votre voix me laisse une vive détente.
Vous êtes pour moi un homme rempli de charisme et de mystère et tout est en harmonie en
vous.
J'ai chanté dans plusieurs chorales. Je fais partie présentement d'une chorale Gospel.
Mon rêve c'est de vous entendre chanter en personne et peut-être d'avoir la chance de
chanter une de vos chansons un jour.
Heureux anniversaire, et je vous embrasse et vous souhaite bonne vie et encore de nous
émerveiller longtemps.
Marjo......xxxxxx
Marjolaine Boisvert <Tidou@Enter-Net.com>
Tracy, Québec, Canada - Tuesday, September 14, 1999 at 16:18:49 (PDT)
Monsieur Cohen,
J'ai oublié, c'est fascinant de voir à quel point vous êtes magicien. Je veux dire que
vous jouez avec les mots comme le plus brillant des magiciens......
Marjo....
Marjolaine Boisvert <Tidou@Enter-Net.com>
Tracy, Québec, Canada - Tuesday, September 14, 1999 at 16:21:33 (PDT)
Dear Leonard,
Greetings from all of us at Sony Music India.
Many ,many ,happy returns of the day!
God Bless !
Sincerely,
Malathi.
Malathi Narayanan <malathinarayanan@hotmail.com>
India - Wednesday, September 15, 1999 at 06:21:53 (PDT)
L'homme avec la Voix D'or,
Je tu souhaite un très heureux anniversaire et je sais que tu vas avoir les plus nombreux
des même.
Cet jour est comme important pour nous, tes fanatiques, à cause de toi. C'est le jour que
Dieu a mis sur cette Terre pleine des conflitsune voix qui exprimais des émotions jour à
jour (la tristesse, la joie, l'amour, les espoirs perdu, etc.) à cause des générations
venir.
Soutiens-toi l'excellent ouvrage.
To the Man With the Golden Voice,
I hope that you have a great 65th. birthday and I know that you will have many more to
come.
This day is as important to us, your fans, as it is to you. It is the day that God put on
this troubled Earth a voice that would speak aboutthe normal day to day feelings
(joy,gloom,love,lost hopes, etc.)to future generations.
Keep up the good work.
Mark Bunbury.
Mark Bunbury <bunburym@esatclear.ie>
Irelande, Dublin - Saturday, September 18, 1999 at 08:41:28 (PDT)
If I forget thee, ...
Happy new year
Rémy BITOUN <remy.bitoun@clause.fr>
Paris, France - Saturday, September 18, 1999 at 13:58:01 (PDT)
Your work is touching, beautiful, and real. Thank you for the very unique
contribution you give the world. Happy Birthday!
Summer Block <mouseode@aol.com>
Chicago, US - Saturday, September 18, 1999 at 17:23:31 (PDT)
Dear Leonard
Best wishes for a happy 65th birthday. In 30 years or so, I look forward to your being an
old man going to work -- blackening pages of course!
Dick Straub <rstraub@att.net>
Convent Station, NJ, USA - Sunday, September 19, 1999 at 08:06:48 (PDT)
Dear Mr.Cohen,
Iam writing you to wish you a Happy Birthday and to wish you the best of luck with your
new book . I hope it does very well. I cant wait to read it .
Best Wishes ,
Phil
Phillip Ahlemeyer <dabruins2@cs.com>
St.Louis , MO. - Sunday, September 19, 1999 at 13:53:09 (PDT)
Many happy returns on your birthday. May you have 65 more of them, at least!
Thank-you for all the music, the poetry, the warmth and the beauty that you have
gifted to us over the years.
Have a happy day wherever you are.
Regards,
Fiona.
Fiona.Harrington <Fiona.Harrington@brunel.ac.uk>
London, England - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 06:09:05 (PDT)
Cher Monsieur Cohen,
Montréal ne vous a jamais quitté et vous, vous n'êtes jamais parti. Mais que c'était
bon samedi de voir sur «la Gazette» votre sourire et vos yeux grands ouverts sur ce
monde qui vous entoure . Monsieur Léonard Cohen, je vous souhaite un très heureux
anniversaire.
Sincèrement,
Marie-Bernarde Pérès
Pérès <marie.bernarde@videotron.ca>
montréal (Québec), Canada - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 09:24:35 (PDT)
Mr Cohen
If you want me to step into an avalanche for your work's sake,i will step into this fight
for you.
In this snow,i won't suffer,nor feel cold,because it is the way i choosed to go.May this
message find
a beautiful 65 years old prophet-singer.
Gaffie <p.mauberme@wanadoo.fr>
Toulouse, France - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 13:38:56 (PDT)
Best wishes of health and creativity,
longing for the next book and the latest songs,
JN
JN Radulesco <jnradu@netcourrier.com>
Saint Raphael, FRANCE - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 13:54:40 (PDT)
thank you sir, and happy birthday !
Fred <mauss@free.fr>
Paris, France - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 14:33:24 (PDT)
Cher Leonard,
Votre poésie me fait penser et rêver depuis si longtemps, j'ai déjà dit et écrit tant
de choses à votre sujet.
Pour moi, chaque jour est un peu votre anniversaire, tant votre présence est grande.
Il semble facile de souhaiter un bon anniversaire à un être cher, il suffirait d'écrire
quelques mots.
Mais un voeu se place bien au dessus de ces lignes, au dessus de ces mots, permettez que
mon esprit tente de rejoindre le votre.
Alors, et en attendant le cadeau que je vous enverrai plus tard (avec l'aide de certains
de vos nombreux admirateurs), laissez moi simplement espérer que vous allez bien, que
vous faites ce que vous avez envie de faire, et rien d'autre. Comme un oiseau sur le
fil...
Continuez à nous faire rêver, votre poésie et vos chansons durent beaucoup plus
longtemps qu'une Volvo.
Happy Birthday, Leonard !.
Love, Peace and Joy,
Patrice.
Patrice Clos <pc@patrice.org>
Sauzet, France - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 15:38:25 (PDT)
Dear Leonard,
Happy Birthday! My best wishes for a special day and may all the many days that follow be
filled with work that sustains you, love that enriches you and peace that never ends.
Thank you for the sustenance, love and peace your work has brought me throughout the
years.
With love, gratitude and respect,
Marie
Marie Mazur <Megan2c2b@aol.com>
Detroit, Michigan, USA - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 18:31:19 (PDT)
Happy birthday Mr.Cohen !
Mariano Brustio <brustio@r-j.it>
Italia, - Monday, September 20, 1999 at 23:20:54 (PDT)
Dear Mr. Cohen,
A very happy birthday to you from New Orleans.
Having recently perused the Nadel biography, I was somewhat amused to learn that you once
considered other career options.
I will take this opportunity to tell you that I am deeply, intensely, truly grateful that
you did not become a lawyer or a Pinkerton detective.
Sincerely,
Johanna Carrasco
Johanna Carrasco <StSquidgy@aol.com>
New Orleans, USA - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 05:10:05 (PDT)
Dear leonard,
It has been 20 years you brought joice, peace and love to my life. I wish you the best
birthday you can ever have.
Matthieu <Vic@aol.com>
Paris, France - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 08:39:20 (PDT)
Happy Birthday Mr. Cohen!
Sarah Wrightson <sarahwrightson@vincebell.com>
Nashville, USA - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 08:54:09 (PDT)
And so it comes again, another year filled with the beauty you create. Thank you for all
you have shared with me, it has made my life so much richer.
Happy Birthday Mr. Cohen.
Valerie
Valerie Shertzman <scvval1@earthlink.net>
Canyon Country., CA, US - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 09:01:13 (PDT)
Hey Leonard,
many happy returns ...
your as old as the woman you feel *l*
I shall have a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in a moment
to celebrate your birthday,
take care from the English Leonard homepage,
cheers,
Paul
http://computing/~paulb/head_page.html
Paul Black <paul.black@unn.ac.uk>
Newcastle England UK, Geordieland - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 09:34:38 (PDT)
Humblement et chaleureusement je m'incline devant vos 65 ans et me relève pour
mieux vous entendre et vous lire...:-) Heureux Anniversaire Leonard Cohen et surtout...
soyez heureux!
Hélène Garant <helgart@videotron.ca>
La Durantaye, Qc., Canada - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 09:48:39 (PDT)
Leonard
a very happy birthday to you sir and a belated thankyou for visiting our beautiful diamond
Wight island in 1970 and gracing it with your art
Mike Plumbley <mike@clearspot.freeserve.co.uk>
Isle of Wight, UK - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 10:57:27 (PDT)
Dear Mr. Cohen,
Happy bithday and thanks for the lovely music.
Antoine
Antoine Gansbeke <antoine.gansbeke@planetinternet.be>
Ghent, Belgium - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 12:35:39 (PDT)
cher léonard,
25 ans que je vous écoute, c'est comme avoir un ami fidèle. Je vous souhaite un bon
anniversaire et merci pour tous ces moments de plaisir passés à écouter et chantonner
vos chansons en gratouillant la guitare, le regard dans les nuages...
bénédicte chaigneau <monier@cybercable.fr>
Paris, france - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 12:50:42 (PDT)
Happy birthday, and thank you for all that you have shared with us.
Amy
Amy Lucid <amy_lucid@pplm.org>
Boston, MA, USA - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 13:26:00 (PDT)
To the greatest songwriter... Happy Birthday, Heureux Anniversaire, Monsieur Cohen !
I can't wait for your next album...
Enjoy !
Michel GILLARD <m.gillard@skynet.be>
Louvain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 13:54:15 (PDT)
Dear Leonard,
Many happy returns,and good luck with the blackening pages.Thankyou for being my guiding
light for more years than I care to admit.Thankyou to the spirit that guided me to our
mutual friends all over the world,(you know who you are).
Time for red needles I believe!!!!!!!
Frince <steve310854@hotmail.com>
South Australia, Adelaide - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 15:01:19 (PDT)
Happy Birthday Mr. Cohen :))) Thank you...Suzanne is a song that holds many special
memories for
me, especially "she'll feed you tea and oranges that come all the way from
China..." Many happy
more!!!
SueAnn
SueAnn Jackson Land <sland@treadstone.com>
USA - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 15:18:39 (PDT)
Many years ago,I sat up in the middle of the night,asleep,and said" A bunch of
lonseome and very quarrelsome heroes were smoking out along the open road" I very
rarely talk in my sleep,I'm told,but when I do it's good to know it's quality
stuff...Happy Birthday,you young degenerate...
Hank Beukema <buckman@bestweb.net>
NYACK,New York, USA - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 at 16:01:52 (PDT)
I always thought that "one of us could not be wrong". I hope I was not
wrong. I hope so much.
So many years are waiting you.
Fanny <fanny.l@wanadoo.fr>
Toulouse, France - Wednesday, September 22, 1999 at 05:51:10 (PDT)
Thank you so much.
25 years and "one of us cannot be wrong" is still my favorite song.
I will learn with you during the next 25 years.
fanny <fanny.l@wanadoo.fr>
toulouse, france - Wednesday, September 22, 1999 at 06:00:29 (PDT)
Cher Leonard Cohen
Votre 65 ème anniversaire coïncide avec le Yom Kippour. Puisse cette
coïncidence vous porter chance, et que cette nouvelle année soit source de
nouveautés, de créations et de retours...
Bon Anniversaire.
Albert Labbouz
Albert Labbouz <albertl@imaginet.fr>
Paris, France - Wednesday, September 22, 1999 at 06:04:58 (PDT)
Vos chansons me touche profondément...merci
Une année remplie de grâce et de bonheur.
Un anniversaire rempli de joie.
merci encore
Rosalie
Rosalie <rosy7@cheerful.com>
Montréal, Canada - Wednesday, September 22, 1999 at 11:29:38 (PDT)
Congratulations on your 65th birthday. I'd also like to thank you a lot for the
songs and the poems you wrote and for the person you are. Merci, merci, merci, merci
teillet <tteillet@yahoo.fr>
nantes, france - Thursday, September 23, 1999 at 03:09:33 (PDT)
Dear Leonard Cohen:
This is a note of joyful gratitude that I send, not only for your birthday, but for the
rich life you have shared with us, with me, for years. Especially, what I want to say is,
thank you for the bouquet, the hard won flowers of intimacy and tenderness that you've
unfailingly gathered and guarded for us, yet never trampled on, no matter how roughly
picked, and for never apologizing for their thorns. You have knocked on the door of my
consciousness with these gifts, and have become a treasure in my heart.
For all time, Mr. Cohen, if it be your will, dance me to the end of love.
Much love to you on your 65th birthday,
Rochelle
Rochelle <indra@teleport.com>
Portland, Oregon - Thursday, September 23, 1999 at 13:55:24 (PDT)
Happy birthday, Mr. Cohen, you're our Big Kahuna
In the fishy sea of poets you're the biggest bluefin tuna
In the mothy sky of singers you're the biggest greenest luna
Without you all our lives would be a bottomless lacuna
Happy birthday, Mr. Cohen, you're our Big Kahuna!
with love & admiration always,
Elizabeth Hoffman
Elizabeth Hoffman <ehoffman@sover.net>
Vermont, U.S.A. - Thursday, September 23, 1999 at 20:35:31 (PDT)
Dear Leonard... Finally I write. At least I have hope you will read this. (Patrice
says you will, and I believe him.) I don't know what you do most... gladden or sadden my
heart. In over 30 years I have not been able to decide. Only that every day I try to
figure it out. All I know is... yours is the only music I can listen to every day and not
get tired of hearing, that you are the only one who can make me feel things I didn't know
were there, and who never bores me. But you are damn hard to sing along to, Mr. Cohen.
Nevertheless... I manage to belt them out with you everyday in my car. It has been the
best thing. So thank you, Leonard. You have given me one of the most wonderful things of
my life. I wish for you the most wonderful birthday of all... and I hope you'll be in
Montreal in May. Selfishly.
Loving you always... (even though it does sound ridiculously sappy)
Bobbie Chalou
Bobbie Chalou <chalou@maine.rr.com>
Gray, Maine USA - Friday, September 24, 1999 at 06:25:23 (PDT)
Dear Leonard! You were born like this, you had no choice-you were born with the gift
of a golden voice. And that voice always guides me through my life. Thank you very much
and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Yours truly, Jens
Jens Cornely <JCornely@Coolcity.de>
Warendorf, Germany - Friday, September 24, 1999 at 13:19:41 (PDT)
Dear Leonard,
I've read all the greetings and all of them told you what I am thinking too. I wish you
all the best and I thank you too for the most beautiful moments you gave me with your
music.
I will never forget when I was in your wardrobe speaking with you and you signed the
passport of my wife about 1980, when you've been in Germany.
Thank's for all, have a nice time, and continue to give us what we are all looking for:
Your fantastic music.
Mach's gut, du junger Hüpfer.....
Manfred
Manfred <Cochise@redseven.de>
Grenoble / Freiburg, France / Germany - Saturday, September 25, 1999 at 19:40:48 (PDT)
Félicitations pour ton 65-ème anniversaire!
Je suis non seulement, une admiratrice de ta musique mais aussi de tes livres.
Bises amicales.
Sylviane
Sylviane <Walpurgi@caramail.com>
Grenoble, France - Sunday, September 26, 1999 at 09:05:47 (PDT)
pour toi,léonard
je tenais à te dire, avec un peu en retard quel place tu occupes dans l'espace musical de
beaucoup de gens de ma génération.
que cette 65émé année t'apporte les choses que tu désires.
J'ai enregistrer une cassette d'un reportage sur ta vie aux "states" avec roshi
et pour beaucoup d'amis c'est une révélation.
avec mon amitié et happy birthday!
troude jean marie <jmtroude@wanadoo.fr>
france - Sunday, September 26, 1999 at 13:11:46 (PDT)
I saw you in milan some years ago and I hope to see you again (if it be your will),
in the meantime happy birthday.
luciano perego <pequot@libero.it>
concorezzo, italy - Monday, September 27, 1999 at 13:51:31 (PDT)
Dear Mr Cohen (a.k.a. Birthday Boy)--
I cannot claim to have been moving with your words for the past 30 years because I have
not been around for nearly that long... But just to let you know, you have some very
dedicated teenage/college fans in Vancouver who desperately need to experience you in
concert (just a crude hint...)
I hope you enjoyed your special day. I enjoyed listening to all the Leonard Cohen Birthday
programmes on CBC! THANK YOU for being a mentor in all my own attempts, for making *all*
my days special.
--Justin Lim
Justin Lim <jklim3@email.com>
Vancouver, Canada - Wednesday, September 29, 1999 at 18:36:55 (PDT)
Dear Leonard,
happy birthday! Thanks for all your work which means so much for me (and many
others, of course). I look forward to THE FUTURE as it will (hopefully) bring more
wonderful pieces of work from your hand and your mind.......
I wish you came to visit my city - Prague -one day and I'm sure you'd like it here,
definitely. A fulfilled fan.
Oskar <oskar98@writeme.com>
Prague, Czech republic - Thursday, September 30, 1999 at 00:05:55 (PDT)
bon anniversaire Leonard
Pourrions nous avoir un album tous les ans???
Combien de chansons avez vous ecrit aujourd'hui?
Ce n'est pas assez!
En esperant vous voir
dans un petit bar enfume d'encens
au fin fond du Tibet
un soir de pleine lune
Ivre et chantant contre l'oppresseur
Qui, comme l'Eskimo ne pourra jamais se rechauffer
Sincerly S. Bastos
Samuel Bastos <samuel.bastos@lemel.fr>
choye, France - Thursday, September 30, 1999 at 09:40:33 (PDT)
Dear Leonard
I'm your fan since 1976. Please go on writing and singing; our hearts need your words.
Alain Benchécroun <abench@wanadoo.fr>
Nice, FRANCE - Thursday, September 30, 1999 at 14:59:45 (PDT)
Happy Birthday...I'm presently writing a thesis on your 2nd novel, Beautiful Losers. I
have found it a thrilling experience although the insights are not always very easy to
capture, but once you do magic IS the sensation felt.
Hope you have a great one!!
p.s. I'd LOVE to hear from you, would you write back if I asked you to? Please do!
Angela
Angela Sandri <gmsan@tin.it>
Belvedere di Tezze, Italy - Saturday, October 02, 1999 at 05:55:11 (PDT)
